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The Browser Is Becoming Your Personal Assistant: Here Are the Best Alternatives to Chrome and Safari
A new wave of AI browsers wants to do your tasks, not just show you web pages. Here is what is actually available, what it costs, and what you might be giving up for the privilege.
On-Device Age Checks: A Safer Way to Screen
New laws require age verification online, but on-device checks could protect your privacy.
Your Period Tracker May Be Sending Your Health Data to Strangers
A new privacy audit found that one popular app shares intimate health details with ad firms before you even type a word. Here is what the audit found, and which app actually keeps your data safe.
Your Name Can Now Be Your Privacy Shield on Zoom
One venture capitalist renamed himself on video calls to block AI note-takers. It works. But the bigger question is whether anyone reads those transcripts anyway.
AI Smart Glasses Can Record Strangers Without Any Warning. Here Is What You Should Know.
Meta's AI-enabled glasses are already on faces in public spaces. Critics say the privacy risks fall hardest on women, and the law is struggling to keep up.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras: The Fashion Trend Born From Facial Recognition Fears
A new wave of designers is weaving patterns into jackets and tops that are built to trip up facial recognition software. Could anti-surveillance fashion go mainstream?
Meta pulled its AI image tool after users realised strangers could remix their photos without asking
A new feature let anyone tag a public Instagram account and generate AI images from its photos. Meta killed it within days, calling the launch a miss.
Meta Pulls Its New AI Image Tool After Users and a Hollywood Union Call It a Privacy Problem
A feature that let anyone generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts lasted just days before Meta quietly shut it down.
Lorde told a festival crowd to skip the AI glasses. Then a Meta ambassador walked on stage.
At a Madrid music festival sponsored by Ray-Ban, the pop star called AI smartglasses 'fucked up' and urged fans not to buy them. Moments later, Blackpink's Jennie, a paid Ray-Ban Meta ambassador, took the stage.
Meta quietly killed an Instagram AI feature after users pushed back
The company said the tool was meant to give creators control. Users disagreed, and Meta pulled it.