Creating their own fake phishing emails, and using them to train teachers, offers students a great lesson in digital citizenship, a focus for the district for more than a decade, Jesse said. “This is ...

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...

While Google disagrees, the company may have decided again that your data is its toy. Here's how to try to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email. There's no shortage of big tech companies that ...

CoLab Software Inc., a creator of artificial intelligence tools designed to help automate engineering tasks, said today it has closed on $72 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Intrepid ...

Copilot Actions can complete tasks autonomously on behalf of Windows users, with Microsoft promising security and privacy controls to prevent unwanted actions. Microsoft’s Copilot will soon be able to ...

If you plan a trip using AI, triple check that the locations it recommends visiting actually exist. The BBC reports that unsuspecting tourists all over the world are leaning on AI to plan vacations — ...

For years, a rumor has circulated online that scientists taught spinach how to send emails. According to social media posts, researchers engineered the leafy green vegetable to detect explosives in ...

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Google says hackers associated with a prolific ransomware group are sending extortion emails to executives at “numerous” large organizations after claiming to have stolen their sensitive information ...

Federal employees at multiple agencies received emails Tuesday blaming congressional Democrats for a potential government shutdown “forced” by the party, an unusual use of government communications ...