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Submission + - Big Tech deserves its Big Tobacco moment (marketwatch.com) 1

sinij writes:

Landmark verdicts shatter the Section 230 shield, turning ‘addictive’ product design into a legal thicket for Meta, Alphabet and others.

The fact that social media is designed to be addictive is now court-tested fact.

Submission + - Apple Gives FBI a User's Real Name Hidden Behind 'Hide My Email' Feature (404media.co)

An anonymous reader writes: Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ feature, which lets paying iCloud+ users generate anonymous email addresses, according to a recently filed court record. The move isn’t surprising but still provides uncommon insight into what data is available to authorities regarding the Apple feature. The data was turned over during an investigation into a man who allegedly sent a threatening email to Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel.

"On or about February 28, 2026, Person 1 received an email from the email address peaty_terms_1o@icloud.com,” the affidavit reads. Earlier on, the document explicitly says that Person 1 is Alexis Wilkins. [...] The affidavit says Apple then provided records that indicated the peaty_terms_1o@icloud.com email address was associated with an Apple account in the name of Alden Ruml. The records showed that account generated 134 anonymized email addresses, according to the affidavit.

Law enforcement agents later interviewed Ruml and he confirmed he had sent the email, the affidavit says. Ruml said he sent the email after reading a February 28 article about how the FBI was using its own resources to provide security to Wilkins. The specific article is not named or linked in the affidavit, but a New York Times article published that same day described how Patel ordered a team to ferry his girlfriend on errands and to events.

Comment AI allows automation (Score 0) 108

does anyone really need AI?

Need? Not really. But AI allows automation of routine tasks. For example, in healthcare up to 30% of time is spent on processing paperwork. This is not a good use of medical professional's time, if you can cut that in half that would be massive efficiency gain.

The downside is that once system is automated with AI, it is not typically designed for manual review and/or intervention. So AI mistakes tend to be hard to fix, because there is no built-in mechanism to trigger manual review of the results.

Submission + - State Farm insurance uses drones and AI image analysis to drop coverage (nypost.com)

sinij writes:

Linda Bennett, who has lived in her Santa Ana home since 1993, said she was stunned when she received a notice warning that her roof needed to be replaced or she risked losing her coverage. The project is estimated to cost roughly $20000.

Euphemistically calling it "aerial roof assessments", insurance providers using it to perform automated inspections without human review. However, these are not always accurate, as various conditions (morning dew, etc.) can lead to false positives.

Comment Re:Ebb and flow .... (Score 0) 156

Fundamentally, the role of the government is to promote well-being of its people. Your view presupposes that this well-being is GDP (automation, exports, etc.) which is only part of the bigger picture. The issue that tariffs trying to solve is disparity of quality of life for an average US person vs. average person in the country that produces imported goods. To put it bluntly, tariff-free regime means that over time everyone settles to the same baseline. This is exactly why US middle class is hollowed out, average person is poorer now than 20 years ago, etc. etc.

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