#privacy

#privacy

Well, a carefully curated bar experience has never been hotter. With their controlled entrances, niche menus and unique design themes, speakeasies allow bar owners to target a (hopefully deep-pocketed) audience. Some speakeasies now cater to the young population's desire for low-stress third spaces, too, like at 13 Orphans, a new parlor for mahjong and merriment in Oakland. People are looking for venues where they can have conversations and connect on a more intimate level,

Many note-taking apps check almost every box, but there's one feature I want that only a select few offer: local sync. Also: The best smart notebooks: Expert tested and reviewed Most note-taking apps offer remote sync by way of cloud or third-party storage. Although I'm not taking notes of a terribly sensitive nature, I do have some notes that I'd rather a third party not have access to.

Sam Altman raised fears that as many as 1,500 people a week could be discussing taking their own lives with the chatbot before doing so. The chief executive of San Francisco-based OpenAI, which operates the chatbot with an estimated 700 million global users, said the decision to train the system so the authorities were alerted in such emergencies was not yet final.

If you're visiting Bachelor Nation from the world of #MomTok - hello and welcome! - fantasy suites are a lead's overnight dates with their final three suitors. Essentially, it's their first real chance to spend meaningful time together off-camera. So while it's a good time to talk about big life questions like politics, money, and religion, it's also an opportunity for couples to explore their physical connection if they choose.

One night, a friend of mine went out for dinner with her husband and toddler. The toddler, who sometimes had trouble swallowing, choked on his food - and threw up, repeatedly, in the restaurant. People around them were laughing while my friend and her family were in distress, adding to their embarrassment. But that wasn't the worst part, she told me.

"How do you feel life has worked out for you so far?" Salem Pierce was asked as part of her application for a visual design lead position at an unnamed company online. The application also asked that she "record a short, roughly 2-5 minute video response and paste the link here," the 30-year-old graphic designer revealed on Twitter. Pierce described the demand as a "new level of job application hell" and many others online agreed.

"It's been the honor of my life to help EFF grow and become the strong, effective organization it is today, but it's time to make space for new leadership. I also want to get back into the fight for civil liberties more directly than I can as the executive director of a thriving 125-person organization," Cohn said. "I'm incredibly proud of all that we've built and accomplished. One of our former interns once called EFF the joyful warriors for internet freedom and I have always loved that characterization."

Technology offers significant benefits across virtually all aspects of modern life, including improved communication, exponential growth in information access, increased productivity and automation, and advances in healthcare, resulting in extended longevity. For example, the positive benefits of biotechnologies - from pharmaceuticals to joint replacements - are not disputed. Adverse effects are always risks, but still, the benefits for humans far outweigh the risks.

Social networking startup Bluesky is rolling out one of users' most in-demand features - no, not an edit button! - bookmarks. The company on Monday announced the new addition, which it calls Saved Posts. The feature is accessible through a new bookmark icon underneath each post, next to the heart for favoriting. Your saved posts can then be viewed at any time from the new "Saved" section in the app's main navigation.

If a typical chatbot (say, ChatGPT) is the bubbly friend who explains how to change a tire, an AI agent is the neighbor who shows up with a jack and actually does it. In 2025 these agentspersonal assistants that carry out routine computer tasksare shaping up as the next wave of the AI revolution. What distinguishes an AI an agent from a chatbot is that it doesn't just talkit acts, opening tabs, filling forms, clicking buttons and making reservations.

Apple is quietly preparing one of the most significant upgrades to its software ecosystem in years: a new artificial-intelligence-powered web search tool designed to supercharge Siri and reshape the way users interact with information. According to Bloomberg reports, the project-codenamed World Knowledge Answers-is slated for a potential 2026 rollout. More than just a technological step forward, this move signals Apple's intent to carve out a distinct position in the rapidly shifting AI landscape, one currently dominated by OpenAI, Google, and emerging players like Perplexity.

The Labor Department is planning to require states to hand over sensitive unemployment information in the name of fighting fraud. The plan, detailed in a notice of proposed rulemaking issued on Friday, would require states to hand over confidential unemployment claims information to federal officials. The department is also considering creating a national claims database for oversight and audits, it says in the notice.

The viral post falsely claims that if you do not enable Advanced Chat Privacy, Meta's AI tools will be able to access your private conversations. This isn't true, and it misrepresents both how Meta AI works and what Advanced Chat Privacy is. The confusion seems to spawn from the fact that Meta AI can be invoked through a number of methods, including in any group chat with the @Meta AI command .

Also: How to quickly search Google Calendar for past or future events It's not that I have anything against Google's Calendar app; it's just that Google has such a crush on AI that I'm afraid any piece of data I enter into any Google app will be used to help train their LLMs (or create profiles of me). Because of that alone, alternatives are slowly becoming a necessity.

Executives are learning that what happens in the crowd doesn't stay in the crowd when cameras are everywhere. Whether it's a Jumbotron at a concert or a television broadcast at Flushing Meadows, internet sleuths are quick to discover the identities of business leaders behaving badly. Overnight, relatively private people can be vaulted from obscurity to viral infamy.

Gotham is an investigative platform built for police, national security agencies, public health departments, and other state clients. Its purpose is deceptively simple: take whatever data an agency already has, break it down into its smallest components, and then connect the dots. Gotham is not simply a database. It takes fragmented data, scattered across various agencies and stored in different formats, and transforms it into a unified, searchable web.

Valve has started to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, by rolling out a requirement for all Brits to verify their age with a credit card to access "mature content" pages and games on Steam. UK users won't even be able to access the community hubs of mature content games unless a valid credit card is stored on a Steam account.

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