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Google settles Android class action lawsuit for $135 million with payouts to 100 million users — here's how to claim your share… Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has “significant improvements in factuality across the board.” The company claims that, based on “internal evaluations,” GPT-5.5 Instant produced “52.5% fewer hallucinated claims” than its Insta… …
… Google LLC , alleged that Android devices were quietly sending data to Google in the background, burning through users' cellular data without permission. Google hasn't admitted any wrongdoing, but it has agreed to pay up, and the official claims website is now live. …
Cyber-crime ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer dat… …
… That estimate depends heavily on possibly dubious assumptions about scale and energy mix, but his broader point, that pushing large binaries to user devices is not free and the cost is externalized, is completely valid regardless of the math. For many users, the more immediate concern is bandwidth. …
Signups, silence, and a suspicious text: users joined GTFOICE.org to protest ICE and woke up to messages claiming their data was sent to federal agencies. Just four days ago, Project Salt Box’s Michael Wriston and Defian…
Dirty Frag is the recent Linux local privilege escalation PoC around page-cache write primitives. The upstream project describes two paths: xfrm/ESP and RxRPC. The Kubernetes question I wanted to answer was narrower than…
Update: Dashlane has just comfirmed on X that no data has been compromised. Atleast thats what people mention under my posts. I can’t find this post on X whatsoever. People also claim to have recieved an email about this…
Interesting new research you may have heard of on attacking large audio language models. The attack is called AudioHijack and the part worth paying attention to is that adversarial clips built against open models transfe…
I co-founded a successful security company close to the Mythos ecosystem and have spoken with participants in the know and I am deeply concerned. We, collectively, have answers for some but not all of the problems ahead …
… Apple Inc. lay out who may qualify, which iPhone models are covered, what information users may need, and when an official claims process could begin. …
… The case centers on claims that Android devices sent cellular data to Google even when phones were idle, supposedly without users knowing. This raised concerns about privacy and extra data usage, especially for people with limited data plans. …
… Some Reddit users note that the reduced limits aren’t affecting users in the US. If you are affected, you could try using a US-based VPN to get around the limit. Perplexity has not yet officially addressed these claims or updated its pricing page to reflect lower limits. …
… Sign in to your GameRant account This article is part of a directory: Best Free Games To Claim Right Now 2026 : Steam, PlayStation, Xbox & More Steam users have until May 13 to claim a casual space sim about colonizing the Moon, titled Roving Rovers: Australian Rover Challenge 2025 , without paying… …
… Other academic studies have warned about overly deferential models, citing "the possibility of targeted emotional appeals used to engage users or increase monetization." Industry awareness of sycophancy dates back to at least to October 2023, about a year after OpenAI's ChatGPT debuted, when Anthro… …
… According to the developer, "Each level in Strike Force Kitty is about finding the optimal path. …