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GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google, F.T.C. Says

Millions of Americans have used GoodRx, a drug discount app, to search for lower prices on prescriptions like antidepressants, H.I.V. medications and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases at their local […]




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Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots

But they have long been keen on bringing A.I. into Google’s products. Vic Gundotra, a former senior vice president at Google, recounted that he gave Mr. Page a demonstration of […]







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Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech

Partisanship has made the logjam worse. Republicans, some of whom have accused Facebook, Twitter and other sites of censoring them, have pressured the platforms to leave more content up. In […]




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Your Memories. Their Cloud.

What to KeepI noticed a philosophical divide among the archivists I spoke with. Digital archivists were committed to keeping everything with the mentality that you never know what you might […]




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Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts

Google workers in Switzerland sent a letter this month to the company’s vice president of human resources, outlining their worries that a new employee evaluation system could be used to […]




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As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It

Nearly three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 remains stubbornly persistent. So, too, does misinformation about the virus.As Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in parts of the country, myths and […]




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ChatGPT and Other Chat Bots Are a ‘Code Red’ for Google Search

As the technology advances, industry experts believe, Google must decide whether it will overhaul its search engine and make a full-fledged chat bot the face of its flagship service.Google has […]




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Clean Energy Quest Pits Google Against Utilities

It was the sort of dry panel discussion that occurs at hundreds of industry conferences every year — until a Google representative decided it was time to unleash.“This is personal […]