DECEMBER 20, 2023
RUSH CITY, Minn. — Before the guards let you through the barbed-wire fences and steel doors here at the Minnesota Correctional Facility, you have to leave your phone in a locker. Not a total inconvenience when you’re there to visit a prolific iPhone thief.
I wasn’t worried that Aaron Johnson would steal my iPhone, though. I was there...
DECEMBER 20, 2023
In this undated stock photo, a security camera is seen in a store. - STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images
Drugstore chain Rite Aid has accepted a ban of its use of facial recognition software for five years due to false accusations stemming from the technology that disproportionately affected people of color, the Federal Trade Commission said.
The retailer failed to impose...
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, required multiple catalysts. One was the willingness of some of those present to engage in violence: small-scale violence like upending barriers or aggressive violence like attacking law enforcement with blunt objects. Another was the mass of people who were surrounding the building and its defenders, a mass that...
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Abusive Images.
Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built.
Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit imagery of...
DECEMBER 19, 2023
In a bombshell decision, Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Donald Trump's candidacy in the state's primary next year is prohibited on constitutional grounds.
The first-of-its kind ruling stems from a lawsuit that focused a little-known provision in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Similar challenges in other states have proven unsuccessful.
"A majority of...
DECEMBER 19, 2023
A coalition of U.S. and European law enforcement agencies has disrupted a ransomware operation, one of the largest currently active, that uses malicious software to lock up victims’ computer networks and demand payment, according to the Justice Department.
The department said Tuesday that it was releasing a decryption tool to help victims free their computer systems from the...
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Google App Store Settlement. - Peter Morgan
Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes.
Although Google struck the deal with state attorneys...
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Justice Arthur Engoron sits in his court room during the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump at New York State Supreme Court on October 24, 2023 in New York City. Engoron has dismissed Trump's latest bid to end the business fraud lawsuit in favor of the former president. - Mike Segar-Pool/Getty Images
The judge ruling over...
DECEMBER 15, 2023
There is “no non-diverse hire" at Aviva that hasn't been "signed off by me and the chief people officer,” the blue-chip company's CEO Amanda Blanc revealed. - Lance McMillan/Toronto Star — Getty Images
As businesses push forward on hitting diversity goals, a major insurance company in the U.K. is telling its 22,000 strong workforce that senior white male...
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The biggest driver behind cheaper gas is falling oil prices. - Maansi Srivastava/TNYT
In the fight to bring down inflation, the falling price of gasoline stands out as a victory, even if Federal Reserve policy has little to do with it.
The national average for unleaded gas was $3.14 a gallon on Dec. 12, according to AAA. That’s 23...
