We want this everywhere: The data brokerage industry quietly trades in some of the most intimate details of people's lives, often without their knowledge or meaningful consent. Now, a new tool could ...

California just gave its 40 million residents a permanent delete button for a largely covert part of the personal data economy. On New Year’s Day, a government website opened to let Californians ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...

Google has started monetizing Search’s AI Mode. Sponsored results now appear along with AI-generated responses. These ads appear at the bottom of a response. Update: November 21, 2025 (2:14 PM ET): A ...

Verizon has revealed the details of the October 2025 Pixel update ahead of Google’s official announcement, outlining several important bug fixes coming soon — though the rollout hasn’t started yet.

On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a ...

Metrics around search capabilities were added to Scintilla Digital Landscapes last week as part of a redesign that introduced more than a dozen new insights into pre-purchase customer behavior on ...

Sony confirmed earlier this year that it’s working on a major PS5 Pro system update that PlayStation architect Mark Cerny dubbed “the next evolution of PSSR.” The company gave a general release date ...

Google has released the August 2025 spam update on August 26, 2025 at around 12:00 pm ET. This update applies globally and to all languages and will take a few weeks to complete. Google wrote on X and ...

NPD, the people search site with a bad security record, is back. The good news is you can pull your information from it. Bad news? Hundreds of sites contain your data, but you can remove. Get more ...

The cornerstones of our digital world—from smartphone apps to new digital assets and artificial intelligence tools—didn’t exist back in 2008, the last time the world’s statistical community overhauled ...