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A hotel leaked my data to hackers. You could be next
PCWorld highlights essential privacy tools after a hotel data breach exposed the author's personal information including name, email, and stay dates. Virtual credit card numbers from banks like Capital One and Citi protect against financial theft, while email masks prevent phishing attacks. Using virtual phone numbers or Google Voice helps avoid data broker profiling and protects your real contact information from future breaches. I was on vacation when I got the ping. It was an email that started: " " I actually couldn't even read it at first--the text was in the hotel's native language. Turns out, hackers had gotten into the guest database of a place I'd booked for later in the trip. The data leaked included my name, email address, and dates of stay. Reading the brief, curt overview made me mad.
The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself David Sacks branded Anthropic's models "lobotomized" and "woke." Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI's new head of strategic futures a "supreme village idiot." It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open-source model that Chinese AI company Moonshot launched last week. It appears to rival the intelligence of models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which are very much not free. Every time a new smart, free model from China gets released, US companies see less reason to fork out money for models from Anthropic or OpenAI. Read the full story on why no one can agree what to do about Kimi .
Samsung establishes a robotics division
Dongkun Lee, formerly of Hyundai, will oversee its strategy. Samsung has created a new division called RX or Robotics eXperience for all of its robotics projects. Its strategy will be headed by Dongkun Lee, who joined Samsung in May as an Executive Vice President. Before he joined Samsung, Lee led Hyundai's robotics strategy, including Boston Dynamics' . Samsung CEO TM Roh himself will oversee the new division.
Can't get a Steam Machine? Buy a 300 mini PC instead
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Can't get a Steam Machine? The Steam Machine costs more than a grand, and is hard to find even if you can afford it. A cheap mini PC, loaded with the free SteamOS, makes more sense for most people. Welcome to Boost Mode, my weekly PCWorld newsletter focused on PC gaming, enthusiast hardware, and other geeky stuff centered around your desk and desktop.
How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table
'The best time to unionize was always yesterday,' union member Simone Robuti said. 'The second best time is today.' 'The best time to unionize was always yesterday,' union member Simone Robuti said. 'The second best time is today.' Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley's myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence F or decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn't breach.