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Google Maps will rename some iconic locations because the US government said so

Google Maps on phone Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority “Gulf of Mexico” is now called ‘Gulf of America’ on US-based Google Maps per government directives. “Denali” mountain has been renamed to “Mount McKinley,” prompting debate over historical naming. Google says the decision to rename these locations stems from its long-standing policy to adhere to

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‘AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals’

An anonymous reader quotes a Scientific American opinion piece by Marcus Arvan, a philosophy professor at the University of Tampa, specializing in moral cognition, rational decision-making, and political behavior: In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft’s “Sydney” chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor,

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Latest iOS 18.3 update ‘fixes’ AI notifications, but it still can’t compete with Android

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority iOS 18.3 turns off AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps to avoid misleading results. The update also italicizes AI-generated alerts and unlocks new Visual Intelligence features on iPhone 16 models. Despite the tweaks, iOS still suffers from a serious notification problem that Android dealt with years ago.

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Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data

chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru’s STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to gain unrestricted access to millions of Subaru vehicles deployed in the U.S., Canada and Japan. In a report published Thursday researchers Sam Curry and Shubham Shah revealed a now-patched flaw in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle

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Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data

chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru’s STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to gain unrestricted access to millions of Subaru vehicles deployed in the U.S., Canada and Japan. In a report published Thursday researchers Sam Curry and Shubham Shah revealed a now-patched flaw in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle

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