As record-breaking heat waves bake areas of the United States and Europe, here is the Help Desk's tips to keep our hot phones cool. https://wapo.st/441uDK9
A California law firm is suing OpenAI for violating the privacy and property rights of countless people when it used their internet data to train its AI tech. https://wapo.st/3poOMLl
The idea of a widespread internet outage caused by a solar superstorm has captured imaginations and sparked misinformation, but concern isn't totally unfounded. https://wapo.st/46snRyY
From sex chats to cancer research, “open-source” models are challenging tech giants’ control over the AI revolution — to the promise or peril of society https://wapo.st/442mcOX
Kairan Quazi, 14, graduated from Santa Clara University on June 17 and is headed to work as a software engineer in SpaceX's Starlink division. https://wapo.st/3qX5NN0
Australia’s e-Safety commissioner says there has been a sharp increase in complaints about abuse on Twitter since Elon Musk bought the company last year. https://wapo.st/44bF79C
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer will lay out his early vision for regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. https://wapo.st/44f2mjb
Making fun of bland salads, sandwiches and cold cuts is all the rage on Chinese social media, even as they increasingly become staples for the country's youths. https://wapo.st/42YXkX6
President Biden held a roundtable discussion on AI with a group of civil society leaders who have critical of how Big Tech is pushing the technology. https://wapo.st/3JocUV5
Twitter’s recent move under Elon Musk to charge more than $500,000 annually for its API is hampering vital disinformation and war crimes research, experts say. https://wapo.st/444VNj2
Investigators say AI-generated child sexual abuse images are simple to create, difficult to track and take time away from finding victims of real-world abuse. https://wapo.st/3pb2vVT
Lawmakers are flocking to private meetings, dinners and briefings with AI experts — including the CEOs of the companies they’re trying to regulate. https://wapo.st/3NenQFT
The Federal Trade Commission faulted 1Helath.io, formerly known as Vitagene, with failing to protect consumers' genetic information. https://wapo.st/42MfwD9
Northern Virginia residents have a wide range of expectations for Amazon HQ2 as the first major set of offices is set to open in Arlington. https://wapo.st/3PhYHwD
Google leaned on its army of contractors to help train AI. After some raised concerns about their work, they were fired by Appen, the company that employs them. https://wapo.st/3JeWONu
Phone companies and Apple promised that 5G would be an awesome improvement. Nope. How can we believe in promises now of technology that will change our lives? https://wapo.st/3Jb2W9E
The filing is a gamble for antitrust enforcers, who have recently suffered losses in the courts to their efforts to blocks large technology companies' acquisitions. https://wapo.st/3NqpOEo
Home security cameras are supposed to keep us safe, but also bring new privacy and security risks into our homes. Here's how to use them safely. https://wapo.st/3J7otjg
Crashes have surged in the past four years, reflecting the hazards associated with increasingly widespread use of Tesla’s futuristic driver-assistance tech. https://wapo.st/3Cl47iX
The AI-generated image spread quickly after appearing on a verified Twitter account that traffics in conspiracy theories and praises Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. https://wapo.st/43Ak3tE
Take our quiz to find out how much you know about keeping your personal activities, files, photos and communications private at work. https://wapo.st/3J0UMjS
AI companies suggest they can help workers boost sales, lower stress and feel more connected. But some workers worry about data collection and privacy. https://wapo.st/3IXGv7K
A Stanford University report found large networks of accounts operated by minors advertising self-generated child sexual abuse images. https://wapo.st/45MNcTX
Apple announced the iPhone autocorrect adjustment at the Worldwide Developers Conference, where it also unveiled its mixed reality headset Vision Pro. https://wapo.st/3WSWWYw
The VR headsets and other eyewear that came before the expected announcement of the Reality Pro at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. https://wapo.st/3qji8uu
In 2022, stock prices fell off a cliff, thousands of tech workers lost their jobs and a recession seemed just around the corner. Now the gloom is gone. Thank AI. https://wapo.st/43hrpBY
Ten years after it was awarded a $4.2 billion contract by NASA, Boeing has yet to fly any NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. https://wapo.st/3MJ0Tuh
Your phone can replace lots of things you keep in your wallet, but not always elegantly. With new updates to its Wallet app, Google is trying to fix that. https://wapo.st/43eVsKw
The National Eating Disorders Association suspended use of its Tessa chatbot after a complaint that it suggested taking body measurements and regular weigh-ins. https://wapo.st/43AKZsJ