2025-02-12

EFF sues Elon Musk and DOGE to block their access to federal employee data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with multiple federal employee unions, have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to block their access to [...]

2025-04-21

ACLU sues two federal agencies for transparency around DOGE activity

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to find out exactly what information the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has accessed from federal agencies. The civil rights organization sub [...]

2025-01-16

CFPB fines Block $175m over Cash App's lax fraud controls

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that's it's fining Block, the creator of Cash App and parent company of Square, $120 million in "refunds and redress" [...]

2025-02-06

US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices

Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not [...]

2025-04-17

NTT Research Launches New Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group at Harvard

When a parent is teaching their young child to relate to the world, they teach through associations and the identification of patterns. Take the letter S, for example. Parents show their child enough [...]

2025-01-28

Jack Dorsey’s Block has an AI agent too

Jack Dorsey’s Block has created its own open-source AI agent. Called “codename goose,” the tool allows users to complete tasks using popular large language models.<br /> “You can think o [...]

2025-03-26

Block reportedly lays off almost 1,000 employees

Block has laid off 931 workers, which make up around eight percent of its entire staff, according to TechCrunch and The Guardian. The publications have viewed an email, wherein the financial technolog [...]

2025-02-04

Government workers sue over potentially illegal DOGE server

Federal employees are suing to disconnect a server, reportedly operated by associates of Elon Musk, from the US Office of Personnel Management. A motion filed today as part of a class action suit and [...]

2025-04-16

Database for cybersecurity vulnerabilities secures last-minute government funding

The US government has continued to make drastic cuts to budgets and personnel, but one cybersecurity service has at least temporarily avoided the chop. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures databas [...]