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New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections

A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform in the latest legal setback against the social media giant that has already cost it billions of dollars.

The jury found over 43 million violations of state consumer protection law and it is now up to the judge to determine how much the company would pay, with attorneys representing the state asking for the maximum $5,000 penalty per violation.

“The verdict marks a significant victory for New Mexico consumers and holds one of the world’s largest technology companies accountable for its conduct,” the New Mexico Department of Justice said in a statement.

The two-week trial in Santa Fe centered on accusations that Facebook, owned by Meta, deceived users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles and sold it to a political...

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Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

Google wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it out inside its Antigravity coding tool. Kavukcuoglu

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DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records

The District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) is notifying nearly 400,000 people that their personal information was potentially compromised in a data breach. According to the agency, the incident impacts Medicaid and the DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries who enrolled between 2023 and 2026. The data breach

The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents

The DHS will use Google's AI tools to recommend information to be blacked out of FOIA requests. Ascannio/Shutterstock Document redactions have been in the spotlight lately thanks to the US Justice Department's Epstein file release, which used it to black out text in millions of

After 40 years, Excel is breaking one of its oldest rules: one cell, one value

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. First look: Microsoft is testing a version of Excel that allows users to put more than one value inside a cell, a break from the spreadsheet program's longstanding one-cell, one-value model. The

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Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records

The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents

After 40 years, Excel is breaking one of its oldest rules: one cell, one value