Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of abuse, stalking, and absolute surveillance | World News

[ad_1] Eric Schmidt, the 70-year-old former Google CEO, has been accused by his 31-year-old ex-girlfriend, Michelle Ritter, of abuse, stalking, and what she described as “absolute digital surveillance.” According to court filings obtained by The New York Post, Ritter alleged that Schmidt used his influence, wealth, and technical expertise to monitor her private communications and […]

Three scientists win Physics Nobel for work that paved way for cellphones

[ad_1] File photo: US scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis STOCKHOLM: US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action”, paving the way for the development of the next generation of digital technologies. “There is no advanced technology […]

Why TCS, Amazon and others are thinning the middle layer? Red flags for managers to watch out for

[ad_1] Picture this: On a Tuesday morning in Bengaluru, a programme manager opens a routine email and realises it is anything but: her team doubles overnight, weekly updates are auto-generated, and a colleague in a similar role has been moved to a “bench” with two weeks to find a new project. Versions of this scene […]

Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan file Rs 4 crores lawsuit against Google, YouTube over deepfakes: Report : Bollywood News

[ad_1] Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have taken legal action against Google and YouTube, filing a Rs 4 crores lawsuit over the alleged misuse of their images and videos through AI-generated deepfakes. The Bollywood couple, who had earlier asserted their personality rights, have accused the platforms of allowing manipulated content to spread unchecked. Abhishek […]

‘Self-preferencing practices’: EU fines Google $3.5 billion over ad services; faces global antitrust pressure

[ad_1] Google hit with $3.5 billion EU fine (AP) European Union regulators on Friday fined Google 2.95 billion euros ($3.5 billion) for breaching competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services. The penalty marks the fourth antitrust fine the tech giant has faced in the EU.The European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch and top […]

Data snooping: Google hit with $425m verdict, accused of tracking users; case covers 98m people

[ad_1] A federal jury has ordered Alphabet’s Google to pay $425 million after finding the company violated users’ privacy by continuing to collect data even when millions had switched off a key tracking feature.The verdict, delivered on Wednesday in a San Francisco court, followed a class-action lawsuit filed in July 2020, which alleged that Google […]