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News and Updates: Brazil’s Supreme Court voted to hold social media companies liable for illegal user content, moving tech regulation closer to Europe’s model. Critics warn it may stifle free speech as platforms preemptively censor content. A New York judge ruled a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta and TikTok can proceed, finding it plausible their algorithms actively targeted dangerous “subway surfing” videos to a teen. Section 230 protections may not apply if discovery confirms active promotion. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ age-verification law for porn sites in a 6-3 decision, ruling it doesn’t violate First Amendment rights. Critics warn it endangers privacy and chills lawful adult expression. Ford CEO Jim Farley called China’s EV industry “humbling,” praising Xiaomi’s $35K SU7 as better than U.S. rivals in cost, range, and in-vehicle tech. U.S. automakers remain hampered by high battery costs and policy shifts. Another Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode drove onto train tracks in Pennsylvania — one of several recent incidents highlighting persistent safety flaws. Despite marketing robotaxis, Tesla's system remains classified as Level 2 assistance requiring active human supervision.

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News and Updates: Windows 12 rumors point to more built-in AI features, modular design (CorePC), better ARM support, and possible subscription options — but no official release date yet. Expect a clearer picture after Windows 10 sunsets in late 2025. Apple’s iOS 26 will bring useful everyday upgrades this fall, including group chat polls, real-time call translation, a spam filter for unknown messages, and 3D spatial photos for lock screens. Meta AI’s Discover feed is raising serious privacy concerns as users unintentionally share personal medical, legal, and financial details on its public chatbot timeline.

News and Updates: GameStop damages Nintendo Switch 2 consoles: Google settles shareholder lawsuit for $500M: “To Be Less Evil” "AI" startup Builder.ai revealed to be 700 human employees: England's High Court warns lawyers against citing fake AI-generated cases: Meta platforms showed hundreds of "nudify" deepfake ads: OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual revenue: Business Insider lays off 21% of staff, goes "all-in on AI": Duolingo CEO faces backlash for "AI-first" plan:

News and Updates: T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered satellite beta is now open to anyone with a compatible phone — even if you’re on AT&T or Verizon. Cable companies like Charter, Comcast, and Altice added more mobile customers than AT&T or Verizon in Q1 2025 as consumers push back against Big 3 price hikes. The U.S. officially lifts its 50-year ban on supersonic commercial flights over land, clearing the way for faster-than-sound travel — with new noise restrictions on the horizon. YouTube steps up its fight against ad-blockers while simultaneously loosening moderation rules for “public interest” content, raising concerns about harmful content slipping through.

Top Story: Windows 11 adoption rate slows despite Win 10 EOL in Oct 2025 Waymo released a peer reviewed study proving their cars are safer than human drivers Chinese made XPeng outperformed Tesla in Full Self Driving mode comparison

News and Updates: Fed judge says Fla. Law banning teens on social media is probably unconstitutional People pirating Streaming TV, especially for sports Microsoft says not all USB-C ports are the same and wants the industry to change Starlink wants to reduce the latency to under 20 milliseconds and increase bandwidth to 1Tbps

Top Story: Anthropic’s LLM Claude resorts to blackmail so as not to be replaced Google rolling out “AI Mode” for search to rival other LLMs Chicago Sun-Times used AI to create Top 15 Summer Books, 10 were fake Union sues video game that used AI to create Darth Vader’s voice instead of actor Duolingo’s CEO said the company would be “AI First” Duolingo’s CEO back tracks and says AI not replacing humans

News and Updates: Netflix and YouTube will use AI Gen ads for cheaper plans TikTok videos to get free software result in malware Texas bans social media for those under 18 Texas creates age-verification laws despite privacy concerns Baby gets lifesaving Personalized Gene-Editing cure

Top Story: Students are using AI to make sure their papers do not read like AI generated Professor uses ChatGPT to create Content, some of the students call it hypocritical A deep dive into the rapid pace the generative AI is evolving, and we are not ready

News and Updates: Apple makes changes to the way they collect in App Store Apple is settling a $95M Siri Class Action, how to get $100 Uber says Robotaxis are busier than almost all the human driven ride shares Autonomous trucks are driving across Texas Warner Bros can’t stop rebranding HBO Sesame Street will now be on Netflix as well as PBS

Top Story: Visa trying to the AI shopping experience credit card AI continues to grow, but hallucinations are getting worse Zuckerberg thinks most of your friends will be AI chat bots Researchers violated ethical standards while investigating AI usage online

News and Updates: The Dept. of Justice wants to force Google to sell Chrome and Double Click Slate is making a No Frills $20K EV truck Tesla falls from first to eight in new EV sales in Australia Changes coming to Win 11 Start Menu and new features Netflix is using AI as a search/recommendation tool

Top Story: Users are saying please and thank you to ChatGPT and running up the electric bill ChatGPT trying to be less of a “suck up” Report says AI gains outweigh cost, including emissions from power plants Teens are using ChatGPT for investment advice Microsoft users are not using Copilot compared to other LLM’s

News and Updates: Tech job descriptions are becoming more confusing Because of the rate of advancement, tech jobs become obsolete quickly The “You Wouldn’t Steal a car” ad pirated a lot in the ad Google Messages is blurring nudity in communications Mark Zuckerberg told the FTC that social media has changed

Top Story: A man used AI in court to defend himself, it did not go well Things not to tell ChatGPT about yourself or your business OpenAI wants to a frightening Social Media platform Grok AI called Elon Musk a “Top Misinformation Spreader” xAI bought X (Twitter) at a huge, discounted price

News and Updates: Oct 14th is coming, upgrade to Win 11, don’t wait if you need a new PC U.S. Judge rules Google is operating as a monopoly in the online advertising industry If Google is forced to sell off divisions, OpenAI would like to buy Chrome Tesla wants to launch robotaxis like Waymo; how far behind are they?

Top Story: Corey Clothier tells us about autonomous vehicles: The history of autonomous vehicles Where and how robotaxis work The future and what autonomous vehicles will look like in the coming years

News and Updates: What happens when Waymo engineers have to make real time changes New parents choosing Robotaxi to come from the hospital over human driven vehicles Instagram blocking sensitive images from teens trying to stay ahead of government regulations Microsoft turned 50 4Apr2015, we look back at some of their products over the years

Top Stories: Has the time/trend for VR come to an end? A newspaper in Italy let AI write the paper for a week, the experiment did not go well AI Datacenters are being built in the central part of the US bringing economic growth

News and Updates: The NFL will use Hawk-Eye tech to measure 1st downs in games this year Fitbit is getting an overhaul and at least 1 more year of life Apple wants to upgrade the Health app for iPhone & Watch To keep up with AI demands, Apple buying $1B worth of Nvidia GPUs for their datacenters Visa, MC and AMEX vying to be the new credit card for the iPhone Microsoft changing from “Blue Screen of Death” to “Black Screen of Death” Microsoft keeps changing versions of Outlook and Teams

Top Stories: OpenAI says it should be able to train ChatGPT on copyrighted material ChatGPT made up a story that a man murdered 2 of his 3 children in his biography Study finds when lonely people use AI chatbots, they become lonelier and sadder The CEO of a company promising to get rid of Cyber Fraud, sentenced to jail for Fraud

News and Updates: The Signal App, what is it and is it safe and secure? Apple is rumored to be adding a camera to the next generation of Apple watches EV maker BYD sales are soaring, but in China, for now! Could tariffs change that? Coca-Cola has a new vending machine that runs on Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Top Stories: A CISO warns most Malware has not been created yet, because of AI Students use AI, are they cheating or using a tool to get better grades? Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash can remove watermarks from images causing copyrights concerns

News and Updates: Mishing Is New Mobile Security Threat iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted RCS messages TikTok will block the feed of kids under 16 at 10pm Etsy and eBay will try to emulate other Social Media platforms to lure shopping customers back Microsoft released an update that accidentally removed Copilot from Windows Volkswagen is bring back haptic buttons instead of flat screens

Top Stories: Does Antivirus software collect and share your data? Never delete SPAM email Junior programmers are becoming too dependent on AI for coding The biggest Cryptocurrency heist was caused by poor cyber security

News and Updates: After 34 years, Microsoft is ending Publisher Apple says it is delaying Apple Intelligence until 2026 A new survey finds 90% of smart phone users think AI is useless US DoJ is going forward on forcing Google to sell off Chrome Nokia put a 4G cell site on the moon, but it didn’t work

Top Stories: Amazon announced Alexa+ with new features Nvidia says AI Boom is far from over OpenAI’s Sora will get ChatGPT Integration to produce better videos After 2 years, the UK gives Microsoft and OpenAI clearance form Antitrust officials McDonald’s is implementing AI in their restaurants HP and Google team up on Project Starline for 3D video calling

News and Updates: Facebook will start deleting Live videos after 30 days HP halts the 15 minute wait to talk to customer service Gmail switching to QR Codes and Authentication App instead of SMS Chrome updated the Extensions Software and killed off a lot of extensions, including uBlock YouTube launches Premium Lite in US to be ad free for $7.99/month Microsoft testing a free version of Office with ads Microsoft will end Skype in May 2025

Meta’s smart glasses are enhancing the lives of visually impaired Microsoft CEO questions whether AI is creating value Microsoft has made Think Deeper and Voice AI assistants Free of charge Robotics companies have their bots running half marathons along side human runners

News and Updates: Major League Baseball will use the bots for balls & strikes in Spring League YouTube is creating a Premium “Lite” plan with reduced ads Apple Vision Pro headsets is getting Apple Intelligence, finally AT&T created SplitPay, but Splitwise is better Meta is building a 31K mile subsea Internet cable that will go around the globe

New tariffs are driving prices for Temu products thru the roof Elon Musk offered $97 Billion to buy OpenAI Is AI just hype, or is it revolutionary? Hank Azaria penned an OpEd that he thinks Gen AI is going to try to replace him

News and Updates: Google Maps and Apple Maps have changed the name to Gulf of America in the US, not abroad Google’s reCAPTCHA is useless against bots, but a big money maker Ads are popping up in Jeeps on the display when the vehicle comes to a stop Apple released an emergency update for the iPhone Apple AirPods can be used as hearing aids

The Vatican releases a very written warning about the risks of A.I., while acknowledging its potential The Big Story: Bumble CEO steps down after changing the platform Dating Apps have serious challenges, can they resolve their issues Are Dating Apps getting worse? I. and the Dating App, will it help or make it worse?

News and Updates: NIST says using a password manager is better than changing passwords GM got out of the Robotaxi business, but will still use the autonomous driver technology NY Times 1st published article on the WWW Meta to add extra display to the Ray Ban Smart Glasses Meta also will decide the future of The Metaverse Lenovo will do away with the red TrackPoint nub on ThinkPad laptops

The Big Story: Interview with Don Monistere, CEO General Informatics The Joseph Piediscalzo “Chief” Multimedia & Distance Learning Studio at SLU and why that is special! General Informatics Kickoff Celebration benefitting Boys & Girls Club The outlook for IT in 2025

News and Updates: President Trump sends a message to TikTok and gets a 75 day reprieve Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram all say, “We can do short form videos too”! Users are not as committed to TikTok as ByteDance once thought President Trump investing in datacenters to help advance AI Is Microsoft 365 Copilot the dumbest rebrand since “New Coke”? A UK man looses laptop with the password to $765 Million in Bitcoin to a landfill