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GM to pay $12.75 Million to Settle California Driver Privacy Probe
GM has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a California investigation into allegations that the Detroit automaker illegally sold two data brokers detailed information about the driving habits of ...
10 Year Study Finds No Real Benefit to Common Knee Surgery
A widely performed knee procedure known as partial meniscectomy may not deliver the benefits many patients expect, according to a new study out of the University of Helsinki. In the 10-year clinical ...
Older Workers Much More Optimistic About U.S. Job Market: Poll
For years, younger Americans have been more optimistic about the job market than older Americans, even through the depths of the Great Recession. But in an abrupt shift, a new poll released Monday ...
Up to 7M Cars Have Unfixed Backup Camera Recalls: CARFAX
Recalls related to backup cameras have risen sharply, up by more than a million since the start of the year, according to CARFAX data. Nearly 7 million vehicles on U.S. roads have unfixed recalls on ...
Blocked AI-enabled Cyber Hack Could Have Led to Mass Event: Google
Hackers from a prominent cybercrime group used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown software flaw and an exploit to take advantage of it for the first time, Alphabet's Google said ...
Predictions Point to the Potential for a Record-breaking El Niño
Seasonal models are predicting an El Niño climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather. "I think we're going to see weather events that we've never ...
FEMA Council Backs Overhaul of Disaster Response
President Donald Trump's task force for reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday recommended sweeping changes to how the federal government responds to natural disasters. The ...
Platform Breach Downs Nearly 9,000 Colleges, Universities in the U.S.
Nearly 9,000 colleges and universities were impacted by the Canvas outage, which occurred on Thursday evening. A criminal cyber organization known as ShinyHunters claimed it had obtained data ...