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Millions of AT&T customers can file claims worth up to $7,500 in cash payments as part of a $177 million settlement related to data breaches in 2024.

The telecommunications company had faced a pair of data breaches, announced in March and July 2024, that were met with lawsuits.

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Site-blocking orders are usually binary; a court issues an order for a domain to be blocked, or it does not. In Belgium, things work differently. After we reported on a court order that compelled ISPs to block access to the Internet Archive's Open Library, a follow-up implementation order decided otherwise. Rightsholders, the authorities, and the Archive are now discussing how to move forward.

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A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it.

The company's AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings, by default does not ask meeting attendees for permission to record and fails to alert participants that recordings are shared with Otter to improve its artificial intelligence systems, according to the suit filed on Friday.

The plaintiff in the suit is a man named Justin Brewer of San Jacinto, Calif., who alleges his privacy was "severely invaded" upon realizing Otter was secretly recording a confidential conversation.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims Otter's covert recording violates state and federal privacy and wiretap laws. It seeks to represent others in California who have had chats unknowingly shared with Otter, which the lawyers contend Otter does to "derive financial gain."

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  • The unemployment rate among college graduates has risen, with majors exposed to AI, including computer engineering design and architecture, among those affected.
  • In addition, job growth across several white-collar sectors has been tepid, pointing to AI’s growing role in the workforce.
  • Certain tech industries, including cloud, web search and computer systems design, stopped growing at the end of 2022, just after the release of ChatGPT.
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Donald Trump pretends that his mass deportation policy targets "murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals." But ICE's own data proves that he's lying. The vast majority of people detained by ICE have no criminal records.

The US government is required to publish weekly data on the population of individuals detained by ICE, including the facilities where they are being held. ICE quietly publishes this data on its website.

The data includes each immigration detention center along with its population breakdown, including whether individuals are considered "non-criminal" or "criminal", and their "ICE Threat Level". Many of the people locked up by ICE pose no threat at all, according to ICE data.

This website visualizes the public data provided directly by ICE. It automatically updates whenever ICE publishes new data.

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An Arizona federal court issued extensive sanctions against attorney Maren Bam on August 14, 2025, after finding that her brief contained multiple artificial intelligence-generated citations to non-existent cases. The sanctions include revocation of pro hac vice status, striking the brief, and mandatory notification to state bar authorities.

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A coalition of consumer protection, privacy, and digital rights advocacy organizations led by CFA filed a formal request for investigation yesterday afternoon calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce laws against xAI for their promotion, creation, and facilitation of sharing non-consensual intimate imagery (“NCII”) through their “spicy” feature on Grok Imagine, their AI image and video generation platform.

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  • Meta's generative-AI guidelines allow bots to claim they're real
  • Family warns of AI dangers for vulnerable individuals
  • Meta updates guidelines on chats with children in wake of Reuters' questions
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