Lyft pays $2.1 million to settle case alleging the ride-hailing service deceived drivers
SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft is paying $2.1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the ride-hailing service of exaggerating how much money drivers could make while the company was trying to…
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The US election system has safeguards. But human nature is a vulnerability
WASHINGTON — Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential…
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Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign’s last days
WASHINGTON — For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their allies, the apocalypse is only a text message…
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Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says
PARIS — An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world…
Read more Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it
LANCASTER, Pa. — Tech mogul Elon Musk, speaking at a town hall Saturday night in Pennsylvania to support Republican Donald Trump, played down the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S….
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Russian actors made video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, FBI says
Russian actors made video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, FBI says
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AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them
WASHINGTON — A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating images…
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Nigeria releases American crypto exec after dropping money laundering case
WASHINGTON — An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced they were ending his money laundering trial on health…
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Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers find
WASHINGTON — Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government’s response, part of a wider effort…
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New rules for US national security agencies balance AI’s promise with need to protect against risks
WASHINGTON — New rules from the White House on the use of artificial intelligence by U.S. national security and spy agencies aim to balance the technology’s immense promise with the…
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