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Wyze is recalling its solar security cameras after six caught fire and injured owners
Six Wyze Solar Cam Pan security cameras caught fire and injured their owners, prompting Wyze Labs to recall roughly 323,920 units sold across the United...
Federal regulators recalled EcoFlow Delta Max power stations that can overheat and catch fire
Owners of roughly 25,030 EcoFlow Delta Max 2000 portable power stations face a direct fire risk after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a...
Anyone who owned a Google phone or speaker since 2016 can file for up to $56 from a $68 million privacy settlement by August 27
Millions of people who owned a Google Pixel phone, Nest speaker, or other Google Assistant-enabled device since May 2016 now have a narrow window to...
Yamaha recalled 8,650 golf cars whose brake cable can snap mid-drive
Yamaha is recalling approximately 8,650 model-year 2021-2022 fleet golf cars after discovering that a passenger-side brake cable can be misrouted during assembly, causing the cable...
Regulators recalled pool drain covers sold on Amazon that can trap a swimmer underwater
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has warned consumers to stop using Asixxsix pool drain covers immediately and has recalled at least five other drain...
Mt. Baker Imaging will pay $3.3 million to patients exposed in a data breach
A data breach at Northwest Radiologists Inc., doing business as Mt. Baker Imaging, exposed Social Security numbers, financial account details, and health insurance records for...
An $18 INIU power bank sold on Amazon has sparked 11 fires and over $380,000 in damage, forcing a recall
Federal regulators have ordered the recall of about 210,000 INIU BI-B41 10,000mAh power banks after the lithium-ion batteries inside overheated and ignited, causing 11 fires...
Joy Furniture is recalling its Talan and Royce living-room sets over a fire hazard
About 10,400 living-room furniture sets sold by Joy Furniture are being pulled from homes across the country after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission determined...
Vornado is recalling about 255,000 tower heaters after 32 reports of overheating and fire, including one smoke-inhalation injury
Roughly 255,000 Vornado SRTH Small Room Tower Heaters are being pulled from homes and store shelves after federal regulators logged 32 reports of overheating, eight...
Redfin is accused of sharing house hunters’ browsing data with Meta and TikTok
A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Redfin Corporation of transmitting house hunters’ browsing activity and video-viewing data to Meta and TikTok through tracking tools embedded on...
Volkswagen faces a class action claiming its ID.4 electric SUV battery can catch fire
Owners of Volkswagen’s ID.4 electric SUV now face a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the vehicle’s high-voltage battery pack can overheat and catch fire. The litigation...
Wyze is recalling more than 321,000 solar security cameras after six caught fire
Wyze Labs is recalling its Wyze Solar Cam Pan security cameras after reports that several units caught fire in people’s homes. The action affects 321,360...
Avis is paying victims of its 2024 data breach up to $5,000, and claims close June 21
Nearly 299,006 people who rented from Avis Budget Group now face a tight deadline to file claims for up to $5,000 tied to a data...
AI voice clones now need just three seconds of audio to fake any relative’s voice — a family code word agreed today blocks the fake emergency call before it works
Your phone buzzes at 2 a.m. The voice on the line belongs to your daughter. She’s sobbing, says she rear-ended someone on the highway, and...
Google is paying $630 million to anyone who used Google Play between 2016 and 2023 — no claim needed, payouts go out automatically through PayPal or Venmo
Google is paying $630 million to anyone who used Google Play between 2016 and 2023 – no claim needed, payouts go out automatically through PayPal...
DOGE staff copied 300 million Americans’ Social Security records into an unsecured cloud — the largest exposure of the nation’s most sensitive data ever reported
Brittany Borges spent years inside the Social Security Administration helping protect the personal records of hundreds of millions of Americans. When she resigned in May...
Millions are now typing bank balances and logins into ChatGPT’s new money tools — and researchers found 4% of all AI prompts already leak sensitive personal data
Somewhere today, a corporate accountant will paste a spreadsheet of quarterly revenue figures into ChatGPT. A gig worker will upload three months of bank transactions...
Cloudflare, Upwork, and payments firm Bill each cut up to a third of their staff this month — pushing 2026’s AI-driven layoffs past 70,000 workers
In a single day, more than 2,000 tech workers learned their jobs were being restructured out of existence. On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare, Upwork, and...
Meta lays off thousands today and reassigns 7,000 survivors to build AI — the same technology it says made their old jobs unnecessary
Meta began cutting roughly 8,000 jobs on May 20, 2026, and simultaneously ordered about 7,000 remaining employees to transfer into artificial intelligence teams, executing one...
Amazon, Meta, and Cisco have cut 28,000 workers since January — and all three blame AI, while spending a combined $300 billion on it this year
Somewhere in the math of modern Big Tech, 28,000 people lost their jobs so that servers could take their place. Since January, Amazon, Meta, and...