A fascinating profile on litigator Jay Edelson, a longtime tech adversary who’s been filing cases against OpenAI and Google over their LLMs. “Courts are fed up with these companies, and juries are kind of sick of big tech for doing a lot of damage to society,” Edelson says. Sam Altman has called him a “leech tarted up as a freedom fighter,” and Edelson says Altman is “Lex Luthor.”
A proposed class action lawsuit claims Perplexity “effectively planted a bug” on users’ computers by embedding trackers from Meta and Google inside its AI search engine, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. It also alleges that Perplexity’s incognito mode “does nothing” to protect user privacy:
Even paid users who turned on the “Incognito” feature still had their conversations shared with Meta and Google, along with their email addresses and other identifiers that allowed Meta and Google to personally identify them.
The Wall Street Journal got to see a bunch of prototypes of Apple products and talk with CEO Tim Cook about them. The prototypes are so dang cool. I wish I could go see them for myself!
The latest addition to My Play Watch’s collection of gaming wearables is a $79.99 Mega Man version, available for preorder soon, with themed watch faces, sounds, and matching straps. Instead of distracting you with notifications it includes a custom version of the NES’ Mega Man 2 playable on the watch’s small touchscreen.
If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn’t a new laptop. It’s a new operating system.
Digital health screeners weren’t a thing until the Apple Watch. It’s shaped how we think about wearables ever since.
The company has given the all-aluminum NES 40th edition of its Retro 68 Keyboard an Apple II-inspired makeover. The new AP50th Limited Edition features a shell, keycaps, and buttons all made from aluminum alloy, and for $499.99 it will ship in June 2026 with a pair of matching wireless programmable buttons.
The abrupt closure of a tuition-free private school founded by Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, will dump extra students into a local school district, increasing expected enrollment by 20 percent.
Now there’s a $70 million bond measure up for votes to help deal with the influx. The text of the measure says the closure created “an immediate crisis” for the school district.
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The company has already reduced funding to the Oversight Board this year and “has signaled that it will do so again in 2027 and 2028,” according to Platformer’s Casey Newton. The two sides are still in talks.
