The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon--without breaking the hardware. Usually, when you see a feel-good story about finding a lost dog, you don't immediately react with fear and revulsion. But that was indeed the case in response to a Super Bowl commercial from Amazon-owned security camera company Ring. There's now a group offering to dole out a $10,000 bounty to wrest back control of the user data Ring controls. The ad showed off a new feature from Ring called Search Party.

The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help "take back control of your experience of the internet." Give yourself a nice gift this holiday season. Download a free Chrome extension that replaces those incessant LinkedIn posts about artificial intelligence with facts about a very different kind of AI: Allen Iverson. Yes, the answer to your generative AI woes is "The Answer," the crossover king, the four-time NBA scoring champ. One of the defining traits of LinkedIn has always been unhinged posts from power users--the r/LinkedInLunatics subreddit exists for a reason--but the obsessive tenor of LinkedIn posting has become, somehow, more unbearable over the past few years as the generative AI hype cycle has grown.

Tech expert Kurt Knutsson discusses tips on how to protect your data amid AI privacy concerns. Privacy is getting harder to protect in a world where everything is connected. Whether you're chatting with an AI, checking your email or using your smartphone, your personal information is constantly being collected, tracked and sometimes even sold. But protecting your privacy in 2025 doesn't have to be overwhelming. With a few practical steps, you can take back control of your data and make your online life safer.

Asking ChatGPT to write your emails is so two years ago. Generative AI tools are now going beyond the basic text-prompt phase. Take Google's NotebookLM, an experimental "AI research assistant" that lets you upload not just text but also videos, links and PDFs. It will provide a summary of the content, answer questions about it, and even make a podcast-like "AI overview" if you want it to – all while organising your original sources and notes. As AI tools advance, expect more features like this to be baked into everyday software.

With self-driving vehicles possibly arriving on UK roads later this year, the government is starting to put rules in place to accommodate them, the BBC has reported. As part of that, it will allow drivers in autonomous vehicles to watch TV from an infotainment screen in self-driving mode, as long as they're ready to take back control. That's a modification of a law that has been on the books since 1986 that prohibits drivers from viewing a "television-receiving apparatus" when behind the wheel. It will still not allow the use of mobile phones, which were officially banned in the UK last year. That's because automakers can implement technology to stop a car's built-in screen from displaying content when the driver needs to take back control, but can't do the same on a smartphone.

Samsung's phones may be the among the most popular Android handsets, but they're also the furthest from Google's vision, with their own app store, UI, and digital assistant. But with the launch of the Galaxy Note 20 just a week away, a new report from Bloomberg suggests that Google is looking to rein in some of Samsung's freedom. According to correspondence between the two companies, Google is looking to take back search on Samsung's handsets, the foundation for everything Android does. The two companies are discussing a deal that would "promote Google's digital assistant and Play Store for apps" on Galaxy devices. That would be a major change over the current system.

The National Police Agency on Thursday unveiled a draft bill that would allow vehicles with a high level of autonomous features to run on public roads, with an eye toward implementing the legislation in the first half of 2020. The bill to revise the nation's road traffic law would enable travel for what the government classifies as level 3 autonomous vehicles. Such vehicles can allow drivers to shift their attention elsewhere and let the system drive, except for during emergencies and system glitches that would require them to take back control. In the initial stage, the government may only allow the use of level 3 self-driving technology during highway traffic jams. Autonomous driving technology is classified into five categories.

In the days since a self-driving Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., local police and federal agencies have yet determine whether Uber's technology was at fault. But new documents obtained by The New York Times show Uber's technology had made little progress in the last year. The story details the series of setbacks the company faced in trying to get self-driving cars to market, including careless safety drivers who are supposed to take over test cars in case of emergencies. The key stat underpinning the report is what's known as "miles per intervention," or the number of miles the car can drive on its own before the safety driver has to take over the car. The Times story cites internal documents showing Uber was unable to meet its goal of driving an average of 13 miles without a driver having to take back control as of March.

A few weeks back, we looked at one of the biggest problems facing digital publishers--their ecosystem has morphed into one where traffic is increasingly being driven by clicks from social media sites, Facebook, in particular. This means they lose control over the cadence of the editorial they put out since it's up to the Mighty Facebook Algorithm as to when and where (and to whom) their stories are surfaced. That means publishers lose access to data too, as they can't track users around their sites and learn from their behavior. Los Angeles-based IRIS.TV has been working to solve this problem for a while now, and their AI-based protocol should make publishers very happy. The AI product is designed to take users on a journey through the publisher's website, using machine learning to ascertain their preferences and then serve up videos they might be interested in.

Tesla boss Elon Musk has said an update to the company's Autopilot self-driving feature could have prevented the death of a man in one of its cars earlier this year. The company has made'major improvements' to the autonomous technology so that it relies upon radar to help it detect other vehicles and obstacles around it. It has also introduced new restrictions on when the feature can be used and will issue audible warnings asking drivers to take back control of the car. Elon Musk (pictured) revealed details of the update to the Autopilot feature in his Tesla Motors cars, which is due to be released in a'couple of weeks'. He said the improvements to the radar could'very likely' have prevented a fatal crash involving a Tesla vehicle earlier this year Tesla claims there are dozens of refinements in its Version 8.0 of its Autopilot software. It will use advanced signal processing to create a better picture of the world using radar.