AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.

Examining AI users’ digital activity 180 days before and after they began using such tools on the job - AI intensified activity across nearly every category: The time they spent on email, messaging and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business-management tools, such as human-resources or accounting software, rose 94%.

#artificialintelligence #AI #office #work #business #technology #tech

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-isnt-lightening-workloads-its-making-them-more-intense-e417dd2c

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Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?

The Connection Keeper is a round puck that houses two microphones for recording around the table. recordings can then be saved on a StoryCorps microsite

#newsoftheweird #prego #security #cybersecurity #technology #tech

https://www.wired.com/story/prego-has-a-dinner-recording-device-capiche/

OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack

The company says the breach is linked to the recent "Mini Shai-Hulud" supply-chain campaign by the TeamPCP extortion gang, which targeted developers by slipping malicious updates into trusted and popular software packages

#openai #chatgpt #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-confirms-security-breach-in-tanstack-supply-chain-attack/

A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

Every Yarbo robot around the world, whether configured to churn through grass, snow, or weeds, has such ridiculous security vulnerabilities that a foreign hacker can easily hijack a bladed gadget

#yarbo #robot #robotics #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.theverge.com/tech/925696/yarbo-robot-lawn-mower-hack-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt

Meta loses court fight over compensation to Italian publishers

Meta lost its fight against an Italian regulatory order that it should compensate publishers for using snippets of their news articles after Europe's ‌top court sided with the Italian telecoms watchdog.

#italy #EU #news #journalism #copyright #legal #meta #technology #tech

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/meta-loses-court-fight-over-compensation-italian-publishers-2026-05-12/

Foxconn confirms cyberattack claimed by Nitrogen ransomware gang

Foxconn confirmed claims by the Nitrogen ransomware operation earlier this week that they had stolen 8 TB of data and more than 11 million documents.

#foxconn #ransomware #malware #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/electronics-giant-foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-on-north-american-factories/

People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions

Technology advances, in part, because a small number of entrepreneurs or scientists get really hyped about something, and another small number of investors gets even more hyped about the massive financial opportunities that development represents.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/waymo-self-driving-cars/687119/

General Motors to pay $12.75m settlement for selling drivers’ location and data

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75m to resolve claims that it illegally sold hundreds of thousands of Californians’ location and driving data to data brokers

#Verisk #LexisNexis #GeneralMotors #GM #California #surveillance #privacy #legal #technology #tech

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/general-motors-settlement-driving-location

Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

Canvas, has now confirmed it has "reached an agreement" with the hackers, who have said they deleted the data and "promised" not to extort any students or institutions.

#Canvas #education #ransomware #malware #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdepzg83x87o

Meta got a $3.3 billion tax break for its $10 billion AI data center — and it could consume 20% of Louisiana's power

Hyperion will be exempt from state and local sales and use taxes on its data center equipment — including the GPUs that train and run AI models — for 20 years.

Louisiana is building a $470 million, 60-mile transmission line to feed the site.

#Louisiana #Hyperion #datacenter #artificialintelligence #AI #energy #environment #technology

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/meta-zuckerberg-louisiana-hyperion-data-center-tax-break