Ekaterina Kachalova

Photographer Robert Kneschke is waging an uphill legal battle with LAION, an organization that hosts AI training materials, to have his photos removed. We take a look at the case, its implications for the AI industry, and ask Robert what he hopes to accomplish with his lawsuit.

Cover up data breaches and pay hackers to keep quiet, or come clean with the public? The case of Uber's former head of security shows why companies should choose the latter.

Biometric payment methods are growing in popularity. Now that a popular US coffee chain has adopted one, it's time to take a closer look at their pros and cons.

Italy has become the first country in the Western world to block ChatGPT, but it may not be the last. As the chatbot comes under more regulatory scrutiny in the EU and elsewhere in the world, find out how to access it from anywhere.

TikTok, a video-sharing app beloved by teenagers, could soon become a pariah in the US, where lawmakers and the government have set their sights on banning it. But why, and what would that mean for users? Read to find out.

Pre-installed apps on popular smartphones collect a lot of personal data, new research shows. And there's not much you can do about it.

Apple is set to give up some control over its ecosystem under regulatory pressure. Rumor has it that the company is about to allow third-party stores and side-loading. We explain why it matters.

AI-powered coding assistants like GitHub's CoPilot can make life easier for developers. But they do so at the expense of other developers and their work. Is the open source community in danger? A programmer behind the new lawsuit challenging Copilot thinks that it is.

Riddled with privacy scandals, shaken by layoffs, and undermined by a failing metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta looks worse than ever. Is the end near, or will the phoenix rise again?

Microsoft has bundled a VPN with its Edge browser, and we expect others to follow suit. But can a built-in VPN replace a full-fledged VPN service, and is it a good example to follow? We give our take.