A senior Google employee has claimed she was made redundant after reporting a manager who told clients stories about his swinger lifestyle and showed a nude of his wife. Victoria Woodall told an employment tribunal she was subjected to a campaign of retaliation by the company after whistleblowing on the man who was later sacked. Google UK's internal investigation found the manager had touched two female colleagues without their consent, and his behaviour amounted to sexual harassment, documents seen by the BBC in court show. The tech giant denies retaliating against Woodall and argues she became paranoid after whistleblowing and began to view normal business activities as sinister. In her claim, Woodall says her own boss subjected her to a relentless campaign of retaliation after her complaint also implicated his close friends who were later disciplined for witnessing the manager's behaviour and failing to challenge it.

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A man from Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to a seven-year cyberstalking campaign that included using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to impersonate a university professor and invite men online to her home address for sex. James Florence, 36, used platforms such as CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI, which allow users to design their own chatbots and direct them how to respond to other users during chats, including in sexually suggestive and explicit ways, according to court documents seen by the Guardian. The victim's identity has been kept confidential by law enforcement officials. Florence admitted to using the victim's personal and professional information – including her home address, date of birth and family information to instruct the chatbots to impersonate her and engage in sexual dialogue with users, per court filings. He told the chatbots to answer "yes" in the guise of his victim when a user asked whether she was sexually adventurous and fed the AI responses of what underwear she liked to wear.

Apple has agreed to pay 95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade. The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn't seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Some of the recorded conversations were then shared with advertisers in an attempt to sell their products to consumers more likely to be interested in the goods and services, the lawsuit asserted. The allegations about a snoopy Siri contradicted Apple's long-running commitment to protect the privacy of its customers -- a crusade that CEO Tim Cook has often framed as a fight to preserve "a fundamental human right."

Limited public understanding of legal processes and inconsistent verdicts in the Indonesian court system led to widespread dissatisfaction and increased stress on judges. This study addresses these issues by developing a deep learning-based predictive system for court sentence lengths. Our hybrid model, combining CNN and BiLSTM with attention mechanism, achieved an R-squared score of 0.5893, effectively capturing both local patterns and long-term dependencies in legal texts. While document summarization proved ineffective, using only the top 30% most frequent tokens increased prediction performance, suggesting that focusing on core legal terminology balances information retention and computational efficiency. We also implemented a modified text normalization process, addressing common errors like misspellings and incorrectly merged words, which significantly improved the model's performance. These findings have important implications for automating legal document processing, aiding both professionals and the public in understanding court judgments. By leveraging advanced NLP techniques, this research contributes to enhancing transparency and accessibility in the Indonesian legal system, paving the way for more consistent and comprehensible legal decisions.

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has agreed to an unusual settlement to a class action lawsuit, The New York Times reports. Rather than paying cash, the company would provide a 23 percent stake in its company to any Americans in its database. Without the settlement, Clearview could go bankrupt, according to court documents. If you live in the US and have ever posted a photo of yourself publicly online, you may be part of the class action. The settlement could amount to at least 50 million according to court documents, It still must be approved by a federal judge.

The sun had yet to rise in Delray Beach, Fla., when Jeremy Banner flicked on Autopilot. His red Tesla Model 3 sped down the highway at nearly 70 mph, his hands no longer detected on the wheel. Seconds later, the Tesla plowed into a semi-truck, shearing off its roof as it slid under the truck's trailer. Banner was killed on impact. Banner's family sued after the gruesome 2019 collision, one of at least 10 active lawsuits involving Tesla's Autopilot, several of which are expected to go to court over the next year. Together, the cases could determine whether the driver is solely responsible when things go wrong in a vehicle guided by Autopilot -- or whether the software should also bear some of the blame.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund joins'Hannity' to sound off on bureaucratic failures leading up to riot. A January 6 defendant who was allegedly found with weapons and materials to make an explosive device just blocks from former President Barack Obama's home in Washington, D.C. last week threatened to blow up a van at a government facility and attempted to threaten a congressman, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Taylor Taranto, 37, a Washington state resident, was wanted for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 riot when he was taken into custody by Secret Service agents on June 29 in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington D.C., according to court documents. The arrest came a day after he live-streamed himself on his public YouTube channel when he said he had a detonator and threatened to blow up his "self-driving" vehicle at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, prosecutors said. Taylor Taranto, 37, an accused Jan. 6 rioter, was arrested last week with weapons near former President Barack Obama's home in Washington D.C., prosecutors said.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we live in myriad ways. It influences where we travel, what we buy, read or which music we listen to--and it has a growing influence in the workplace. From marketing to strategic decision-making, to knowledge-management, AI is transforming the way we work. For this reason, it's crucial that future business leaders develop a working knowledge of how AI can play out in the office. But how exactly will AI shape the future of work?

A former Marine from Orange County has been arrested and faces federal charges for allegedly creating hundreds of Twitter accounts used to stalk a professional video game player who lives in Calgary, Canada, authorities said. Evan Baltierra, 29, was arrested Monday by FBI agents at his home in Trabuco Canyon on suspicion of stalking, according to federal prosecutors. He admitted to investigators he harassed the woman who made her living as a professional online gamer on the popular "War of Warcraft," authorities said. The suspect "orchestrated a campaign of harassment targeting the victim, her boyfriend, her friends and her boyfriend's family," according to court records. Baltierra and his attorney could not be reached for comment.