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A new study is raising serious concerns about how Uber and Meta handle user data. Researchers found both companies make it deliberately difficult for users to opt out of having their personal information sold — burying controls, adding friction, and in some cases making the process nearly impossible to complete without expert guidance.
From privacy to performance, a software engineer recently tackled Amazon's last-mile routing challenge — one of the most complex logistics optimization problems in the industry — using nothing more than a Raspberry Pi four hundred. The results were surprisingly competitive, suggesting that clever algorithms can often outpace raw computing power, and raising real questions about how much hardware we actually need to solve hard problems.
And on the information integrity front, a new study found that popular AI chatbots got election-related questions wrong roughly ninety percent of the time. That's a striking failure rate for tools that millions of people now turn to instead of traditional news sources, and it arrives at a moment when election seasons are growing longer and more consequential worldwide.
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