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Temu accused of breaching EU’s DSA in bundle of consumer complaintsConsumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Temu only launched in the region about a year ago but recently […]

Google I/O 2024: Here’s everything Google just announcedHere are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use […]

Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programsThe AI industry moves faster than the rest of the technology sector, which means it outpaces the federal government by several orders of magnitude. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.The AI industry moves faster than the rest of the technology sector, which […]

FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — againThe FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday.  For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to advertise, sell and trade stolen data. Just recently, a threat actor advertised Dell customers’ […]

Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroadsIt’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market. On Tuesday, the company announced that CEO Adam […]

Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad serverThe announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant’s advertising approach. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.The announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant’s advertising approach. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.Lauren […]

The top AI announcements from Google I/OGoogle’s going all in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. That’s a lot! But not all of Google’s AI announcements were significant per se. Some were incremental. […]

Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warnA feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning […]

Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generatorBack in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Gemini would show an anachronistic group of racially diverse soldiers while rendering “Zulu warriors” as stereotypically Black. Google CEO Sundar Pichai […]

Uber has a new way to solve the concert traffic problemUber is taking a shuttle product it developed for commuters in India and Egypt and converting it for an American audience. The ride-hail and delivery giant announced Wednesday at its annual Go-Get event in New York City that it will launch a shuttle service in […]