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A peer-reviewed study and multiple major outlets report that AI systems’ water footprint in 2025 is estimated between about 312 billion and 765 billion liters, a range that overlaps and, at its upper ...
DuckDuckGo’s browser now includes a built‑in Passwords & Autofill system and a Sync & Backup feature that can import, encrypt, and sync saved logins and autofill “Identities” across devices; DuckDuckG...
Major tech companies and prominent tech figures have publicly engaged with or financially supported Donald Trump’s 2025 presidency through inauguration donations, meetings at Mar‑a‑Lago, and participa...
In 2025 Tor Browser substantially reduces the chance that websites or ordinary trackers can link your browsing to your real IP address or device fingerprint, because it routes traffic through multiple...
John Lasseter was accused by multiple former employees and reports of a pattern of at Pixar and Disney Animation, including persistent unwelcome touching, kisses, and leering that made staff uncomfort...
There is no credible reporting in the supplied sources that has endorsed or promoted any specific pills to treat neuropathy; instead, the available evidence documents a wave of AI-manipulated ads usin...
DuckDuckGo’s search results and its Smarter Encryption feature focus on enforcing HTTPS (the TLS-encrypted HTTP protocol) by maintaining and using a large, continuously generated list of sites that su...
places contractual limits on the model providers it uses — promising , a prohibition on using Prompts/Outputs to train models, and deletion of chat data "at most within 30 days" — but those contractua...
Newly released House Oversight emails and prior reporting show numerous prominent scientists and faculty had financial or personal ties to Jeffrey Epstein — including Lawrence Summers, Marvin Minsky, ...
MSN (Microsoft News) has published multiple stories that were later debunked or criticized by independent fact‑checkers and news organizations, with prominent examples documented in late 2022 and Nove...
The European Commission ordered X to preserve "all internal documents and data" related to its AI chatbot Grok through the end of 2026, extending an earlier retention requirement tied to algorithms an...
Twitter/X publicly says it reports instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — principally the content and accounts that post or share that material — to the National Center for Missing and Expl...
Available reporting shows several named corporate “Founding,” “Signature,” and program sponsors for America250—most prominently Walmart (Founding Sponsor) and The Coca‑Cola Company (Signature Partner)...
In 2025, Tor Browser makes it materially harder for ordinary observers to link a visitor’s real IP or device to .onion sites by routing traffic through volunteer relays and stripping many browser iden...
Microsoft and DuckDuckGo have a commercial relationship: DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft (Bing/Microsoft Advertising) as a search and ad partner, which has at times produced contractual limits on DuckDuckGo...
removed its Smart ID mobile app from the and stores in and asked users to delete it while the seeks a to redevelop the product, with the agency publicly saying it expects a new app “” and urging resid...
No verifiable case has been documented in the provided reporting where ChatGPT or OpenAI itself made a direct report to law enforcement that led to an arrest; most publicized incidents involve people ...
DuckDuckGo has had a commercial relationship with Microsoft that affected how its browser handled Microsoft-owned tracking scripts: DuckDuckGo acknowledged a “search syndication” or ad partnership tha...
Supporters initially responded to the Trump-branded T1 phone and Trump Mobile with enthusiasm and pre-orders, while critics — journalists, industry analysts and tech outlets — have accused the project...
loudly states that strips personally identifying metadata such as IP addresses before forwarding prompts to model providers, and multiple tech outlets have repeated or summarized that claim based on c...