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Israel-based maker of Pegasus program loses five-year-old landmark case.

The artificial intelligence start-up said the new system, OpenAI o3, outperformed leading A.I. technologies on tests that rate skills in math, science, coding and logic.

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The CFPB has filed a lawsuit against Zelle and three major US banks, alleging that they failed to adequately protect consumers from fraud. The lawsuit claims that these financial institutions rushed Zelle to market without proper safeguards, resulting in substantial consumer losses. Zelle has responded by stating that the lawsuit is legally and factually …

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life since 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has an economy of ~$650M per year  —  Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse.

Long before we had Amazon or Facebook marketplace, or thousands of other online retailers, we had eBay. And now, we have an eBay coupon to help you save on basics like vacuums and phones, to even your most niche need—because eBay has everything from haunted objects to ironic landline phones to retro gaming consoles. One of the first and most …

In the fast-paced world of innovation, every breakthrough carries the risk of missteps, miscalculations, or under-delivering promises. The biggest tech story of 2024 — the CrowdStrike outage that affected businesses and consumers nationwide — was also one of the year’s most notable failures. But the CrowdStrike story is more than just a tale of failure — it’s also a testament …

Coordinated strikes ahead of Christmas in a handful of cities including San Francisco and New York see the Teamsters challenge the nation’s second-largest private employer.

The image, from northern Spain, showed a man with a white bag in the trunk of a car. The National Police said it helped them solve a missing-person case.

TL;DR Google’s latest holiday ad shows a Pixel comforting an iPhone that’s feeling inadequate as a Christmas gift. The campaign throws shade at Apple for the lack of AI features on iPhones. Titled “Best Phones Forever,” the Google ad falls a bit flat compared to the company’s previous attempts at one-upping Apple. ‘Tis the season for spreading cheer, and Google’s …

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Chinese self-driving trucking company TuSimple rebrands to CreateAI, in a pivot to generative AI for video games and animation, and debuts its first model, Ruyi  —  Embattled Chinese autonomous trucking company TuSimple has rebranded to CreateAI, focusing on video games and animation, the company announced Thursday.