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The biggest children's privacy update in 12 years takes effect, Google faces a class action over Gemini scanning Gmail, and we audit every major AI platform's opt-out settings.
A practical guide to running fully local audio transcription with whisper.cpp and faster-whisper — no API keys, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine.
Meta's Model Capability Initiative captures mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots from employee computers. The goal: build AI agents that can replace the workers generating the training data.
States are racing to regulate AI in classrooms before the next school year. Ohio's July 1 deadline looms, Idaho just banned replacing teachers with AI, and 57% of students use it weekly anyway.
A step-by-step guide to running a fully local, private AI code completion setup in VS Code that costs nothing and sends zero data to the cloud.
Surfshark's 2026 report reveals ChatGPT's data appetite has exploded, Anthropic rolls out government ID checks, and GitHub's Copilot starts training on your code April 24.
After the Perplexity class-action over leaked chats to Meta and Google, here's how to run a citation-grounded AI answer engine on your own hardware with Ollama and SearXNG.
Step-by-step guide to running OpenAI's Whisper locally for transcription — three approaches from command-line to full web UI, all free and completely private.
Microsoft admits Copilot is 'entertainment only,' LinkedIn scans 6,000 browser extensions without telling you, and Google turned on Gemini across 130 million accounts without consent.
Meta's first model from its new Superintelligence Labs is closed-source, proprietary, and requires a Facebook login. The company that built Llama just locked the door.
Step-by-step guide to setting up Immich, the open-source Google Photos alternative with AI face recognition and smart search — all running on your own hardware.
Suno v5.5 trades voice cloning for your biometric data, ACE-Step 1.5 lets you generate music locally instead, and a new tool protects artists from deepfake cloning.
We tested the three leading AI image generators on the same prompts. Here's which one actually wins — and which you can run locally.
Cloud video generators charge by the second. Open models like Wan 2.2, LTX-2.3, and HunyuanVideo-1.5 run on a single consumer GPU. The honest 2026 setup.
OpenAI's ChatGPT is the first AI chatbot on Apple CarPlay. The convenience is real—but so are the questions about voice data, distraction, and what happens to your conversations.
ChatGPT now tracks 70% more data types than last year. Meta AI harvests 95% of possible categories. And with FISA Section 702 expiring April 20, the data broker loophole that lets agencies buy your AI conversations without a warrant hangs in the balance.
A class-action lawsuit alleges Perplexity embedded hidden trackers that sent full conversation transcripts to Meta and Google—even in Incognito mode.
An 82-million parameter model that runs on a CPU, sounds nearly as good as ElevenLabs, and costs nothing. Here's how to set it up.
Governor Newsom signed a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring AI vendors seeking state contracts to prove bias safeguards, civil rights protections, and content safety—directly defying the White House's push to preempt state AI laws.
AI2's MolmoWeb lets you automate any browser task locally. It outperforms proprietary agents and costs nothing to run.
Google's real-time translation feature now works with any headphones on iOS, supporting 70+ languages. The catch: unlike Apple's on-device approach, everything goes to the cloud.
Reddit begins requiring human verification for suspicious accounts using passkeys, biometrics, and Sam Altman's controversial World ID. Here's what it means for privacy.
Step-by-step guide to deploying Tabby, the open-source AI coding assistant that keeps your code private and costs nothing after setup.
Google and GitHub both offer free AI coding assistants. Both also want to use your code to train their models. Here's what you're trading for free.
