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TL;DR Twenty-six Meta employees sued the company alleging its AI scoring systems penalised workers on medical leave during May layoffs. Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical
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The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta’s latest smart glasses reaching the EU, Politico reports. The delegated act, adopted on Tuesday, adds six product categories to the exemption list. It covers
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Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraise for his new dating company, Overtone. McLeod stepped down from his CEO role at Hinge just last year, and Hinge owner Match Group — which also owns apps like Tinder and OkCupid — is helping to fund his new company, alongside FirstMark Capital
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Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement. Titled “There’s hope in hard questions,” the company’s latest ad has been unsettling viewers with its weird imagery and doomer-ist tone.
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Apple is opening up its biggest-ever Siri overhaul to a broader audience with the release of the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch later this fall. The public beta marks the first time Apple has
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A few years ago, I couldn't differentiate between the Oura Ring 3 and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. Both smart rings both held a similar position in the wearables market -- industry newbies with a novel design and insights
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned
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Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by
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For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were focused on building the global infrastructure, security frameworks, and data platforms that power the world's largest organizations. We’ve always believed that
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A far better Siri and performance benefits are reasons to upgrade and try out the beta, or wait till the fall. 4 min read I don't tend to recommend downloading public betas of Apple software unless you really want to and have a secondary device you're
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ai and ml 50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday paused incomplete state environmental permit applications for large datacenters while officials work out new rules, a process expected to take up
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Weighing just 76g, the X3 Pro proves that cutting-edge AR hardware no longer has to crush your nose. The display is a genuine glimpse of the future. But the future has a small battery, and the X3 Pro's 245mAh cell is, alongside the price, the device's
