2025-09-23
200 dollars a month to sort emails and schedule even more meetings. NEXT. [embedded post]
Windows Central
Perplexity debuts Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook, which can manage inboxes, schedule meetings, and more, for subscribers of its $200/month Max plan
but it will cost $200 a month
2025-05-07
For over a decade, NSO made millions selling spyware to repressive regimes. Finally, it was blacklisted by the US Government and now has been hit with an astronomical fee against it. — Remember, tech fascism isn't inevitable and can be fought against. [embedded post]
Courthouse News Service
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on 1,400+ WhatsApp users' phones
Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
2025-01-31
In #FOIA news, the richest company in the world has sued the state of Washington to prevent release of records. These kind of interventions have been made worse by the Supreme Court's ruling in the Argus Leader case. (Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post) [embedded post]
GeekWire
Amazon sues Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post about Jeff Bezos' Amazon Project Kuiper satellite facility in Seattle
Amazon is suing Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post from a series of state Department of Labor and Industries investigations of an Amazon...
2024-12-18
“The test we created to test ourselves against found we scored very high on the test that we created to test ourselves against” [embedded post]
Google DeepMind
Google introduces FACTS Grounding benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLMs, and announces a leaderboard that ranks Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental on top
Our comprehensive benchmark and online leaderboard offer a much-needed measure of how accurately LLMs ground their responses …