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Cable companies, advertising firms, and newspapers are asking courts to block a federal "click-to-cancel" rule that would force businesses to make it easier for consumers to cancel services. Lawsuits were filed yesterday, about a week after the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule that "requires sellers to provide consumers with simple cancellation mechanisms to immediately halt all recurring charges."

Cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau trade group sued the FTC in the conservative US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The lawsuit claims the 5th Circuit is a proper venue because a third plaintiff, the Electronic Security Association, has its principal offices in Dallas. That group represents security companies such as ADT.

A separate lawsuit was filed against the FTC in the 6th Circuit appeals court by the Michigan Press Association and National Federation of Independent Business. The two lawsuits were apparently coordinated as they both complain about the rule with the following text:

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Google explores how its technology can help solve global challenges like access to emergency health services.Google explores how its technology can help solve global challenges like access to emergency health services.

New information will indicate if Google AI was used to edit a photo right in the Google Photos app.New information will indicate if Google AI was used to edit a photo right in the Google Photos app.

Google Play Points members can get both Disney+ and Hulu.Google Play Points members can get both Disney+ and Hulu.

There are hundreds of Constitutional Sheriffs around the country who believe they are the ultimate legal power in their county. We break down how they have coalesced with the election denial movement.

Back in May, Google augmented its Gemini AI model with SynthID, a toolkit that embeds AI-generated content with watermarks it says are "imperceptible to humans" but can be easily and reliably detected via an algorithm. Today, Google took that SynthID system open source, offering the same basic watermarking toolkit for free to developers and businesses.

The move gives the entire AI industry an easy, seemingly robust way to silently mark content as artificially generated, which could be useful for detecting deepfakes and other damaging AI content before it goes out in the wild. But there are still some important limitations that may prevent AI watermarking from becoming a de facto standard across the AI industry any time soon.

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Google uses a version of SynthID to watermark audio, video, and images generated by its multimodal AI systems, with differing techniques that are explained briefly in this video. But in a new paper published in Nature, Google researchers go into detail on how the SynthID process embeds an unseen watermark in the text-based output of its Gemini model.

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Struggling with back pain while you sleep, or when you wake up in the morning? These mattresses can help with that.

In the 1940s, scientists at the recently established National Cancer Institute were trying to breed mice that could inform our understanding of cancer, either because they predictably developed certain cancers or were surprisingly resistant.

The team spotted a peculiar litter in which some baby mice had short, kinked tails and misplaced ribs growing out of their neck bones. The strain of mice, nicknamed “tail short,” has been faithfully bred ever since, in the hope that one day, research might reveal what was the matter with them.

After more than 60 years, researchers finally got their answer, when Maria Barna, a developmental biologist then at the University of California San Francisco, found that the mice had a genetic mutation that caused a protein to disappear from their ribosomes—the places in cells where proteins are made.

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The pioneering Geochron doesn’t just tell time—it tells stories.

The SAIF Risk Assessment is our new interactive tool for helping others across the industry secure AI.The SAIF Risk Assessment is our new interactive tool for helping others across the industry secure AI.

DJI’s latest action camera outruns and outguns GoPro’s Hero 13 Black.

Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.

These cow-replacing machines turn nuts, oats, and other plants into milk quickly, easily, and automatically.

The Trump and Harris campaigns have built huge networks of influencers and content creators. They have one last job—getting people out to vote.

A report from the US Department of Homeland Security claims that self-identified militia members have posted the names and photos of US government officials in reaction to their work on the US-Mexico border.

Plantix started with the mission of making farming more environmentally friendly. So how did it end up selling the very products it wanted to fight against?

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.

The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.