How to disable ACR on your TV (and stop the data tracking once and for all)

Your Samsung, LG, and even Sony TV comes with notable privacy risks. Here's how to avoid one of the biggest with only a few steps.

How Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers

A new state website lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by ...
The New York Times

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...
Yahoo

Google promises gift cards to some who agree to hand over data

A strange flyer from Google arrived in mailboxes recently and had some Michigan consumers wondering what was up. Google apparently is promising gift cards — if consumers who receive such mailers agree ...
The New York Times

The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

Dr. Slotkin is a neurosurgeon. I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash. The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding, but we all knew. When ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
Mother Jones

New Report Indicates a Growing Public Resistance to Data Centers

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a ...
Engadget

Apple's M5 chip pushes AI performance with new 'Neural Accelerators'

Like clockwork, Apple has introduced a new M-series chip on updated versions of the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro and for the first time, Apple Vision Pro. The new M5 chip shares plenty of similarities with ...
CNBC

How to book American Airlines flights using Chase points

For a long time, American Airlines didn't have any direct credit card transfer partners, but this changed with the company's expanded partnership with Citi. But you don't need a Citi credit card or ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...
cynoteck

Core Data in iOS & macOS: A Complete Guide to CRUD, Predicates, and Data Management

Core Data is a graphical and persistence framework, which is used in Apple devices with operating systems macOS and iOS. Core Data was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and iOS with iPhone SDK 3 ...
The Shreveport Times

A Meta data center is coming to Louisiana. Why it will use up state's water, electricity

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...