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An assistant principal in Georgia is facing serious charges after being caught in a shocking shoplifting scheme that played out over several weeks at Walmart — and it wasn’t a petty crime. Courtney ...

A Georgia elementary school assistant principal has been accused of brazenly stealing 98 items worth about $1,000 from Walmart using a “stacking” scheme at self-checkout kiosks. Courtney Janell Shaw, ...

Security researchers are warning of insecure deployments in enterprise environments of the Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) AI assistant, which can lead to leaking API keys, OAuth tokens, conversation ...

Dan Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant based in Lisbon, lets a precocious, lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot run much of his life. Peguine, a self-professed early adopter ...

Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) unit Google agreed to pay $68M to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice-activated assistant spied on smartphone users, violating their privacy, Reuters reported. A ...

What just happened? Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing its voice assistant of unlawfully recording private conversations and sharing them in ways that may ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges its voice assistant violated users’ privacy. Google denied any wrongdoing but agreed to settle to avoid the cost and ...

Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began ...

Ramona Vijeyarasa receives funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Program (DP250100382); the Trawalla Foundation; and the Women's Leadership Institute Australia. In 2024, artificial ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...