Canvas Hack Aftermath: Congress Wants Instructure to Answer Questions

Canvas Hack Aftermath: Congress Wants Instructure to Answer Questions

[ad_1] The US House of Representatives is demanding testimony from representatives of Instructure, the twice-hacked company that owns the education platform Canvas. Lawmakers are seeking answers to explain the company’s delayed response to cyberattacks that enabled bad actors to scrape the personal information of millions of students and teachers nationwide. Instructure revealed this week that …

Google confirms new laptops are still coming

Google confirms new laptops are still coming

[ad_1] TL;DR Google VP John Maletis says there’s a “super robust” pipeline of upcoming Chromebooks and Chromebook Plus devices through this year and into next year. The statement is the clearest confirmation yet that ChromeOS laptops are not going away immediately, despite Google’s newly announced Googlebooks initiative. However, Google still appears to be positioning Googlebooks …

Trump Phone Will Finally Ship This Week, CEO Says

Trump Phone Will Finally Ship This Week, CEO Says

[ad_1] The golden Trump phone is finally shipping this week to people who preordered it, according to an emailed statement from Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien, as reported earlier by USA Today. Trump Mobile expects phones to be delivered within the next few weeks after months-long production delays. “The technology business is more difficult than some …

FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum

FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum

[ad_1] Separately, a group representing rural mobile carriers criticized the approvals, saying the FCC ignored competition concerns raised by small wireless operators. The spectrum sales “continue the troubling pattern of spectrum aggregation that disadvantages rural wireless providers, stifles competition in the wireless marketplace, and hinders the deployment of wireless services—particularly in the hardest-to-serve rural areas,” …

The Other Half of AI Safety

The Other Half of AI Safety

[ad_1] Every week, somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users, roughly the population of a small country, show signals of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the model. The low end of that range is the suicide-planning indicator alone. The high end groups all three categories OpenAI flagged, which the company …