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The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed requiring Event Data Recorders in light passenger vehicles, a rule that took effect in 2012. That was just the start. Modern cars collect everything from speed to location data, creating detailed profiles of driving behavior. Most drivers have no idea their vehicles transmit telemetry to manufacturers, insurers, and data…

Someone wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses starts a video with the white capture LED glowing visibly, satisfying the system’s check. Then a finger slides over it. Recording continues. Nobody nearby knows a thing.

YouTube should show you more of what you like. If it doesn’t, you can nudge it back to relevancy.

Even with HTTPS keeping your activity on a website private, your network provider and anyone snooping on the connection can still see exactly which sites and apps you’re visiting. This privacy gap has quietly existed for years, and Google is now closing it with four major network security upgrades built into Android 17.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

The threat that keeps modern navies awake at night is no longer a single, quiet submarine that gave regular defenses the slip, but a plethora of cheap drones that come in all shapes and sizes and could target anything from a pier to an undersea cable or a pipeline, for example.

Don’t let Siri become a hassle instead of an assistant; keep it quiet in the car to reduce distractions.

Financial Times columnist Sarah O’Connor speaks to EI’s Caitlin Allen about her book, ‘We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work’, and why we still have control over how automation will shape our lives.

Nvidia has released NeMo Switchyard, an openlanguage models and decides, per request or per turn, which model should handle a particular task

Modern smartphones are a perfect vehicle for upselling, allowing manufacturers to profit twice: once on the sale, and again on cloud storage services further down the line.