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Humble Unveils $24M Autonomous Electric Truck Designed for Dock-to-Dock Use

The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a […]

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Apple TV’s Sci-Fi Summer Continues with Silo Season 3 in July

Over the last few years Apple TV has established itself as a force in sci-fi, and that trend looks to continue through 2026. Up next: the post-apocalyptic thriller Silo is returning for its third season on July 3rd. The 10 episode-long season will span 10 episodes and wrap up on September 4th, with new episodes […]

Cash App Aims at New Customers: Children Ages 6-12

Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a […]

3 Million Dating Application Images Employed for AI Training Before FTC Privacy Rules

Approximately 3 million user images from the dating platform OkCupid were utilized for AI training by an external organization, breaching the company’s privacy policy. This violation dates back to 2014, but it was only recently addressed, leading to the deletion of both the photos and the AI model derived from them.

The situation commenced when Clarifai’s founder, Matthew Zeiler, reached out to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn, seeking access to its data. Zeiler acknowledged the significant potential of OkCupid’s data for their AI projects. OkCupid furnished nearly three million user images, along with location and demographic information, without a formal contract, limitations on data usage, or informing users.

In spite of OkCupid’s privacy policy vowing not to distribute personal information with unrelated third parties, the data was shared informally. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated an investigation in 2019, which concluded this year. As part of the settlement, OkCupid’s parent company, Match Group, has been prohibited from misrepresenting its data practices for two decades. Nevertheless, the FTC does not possess the capacity to levy monetary penalties for such privacy infringements.

Splatoon Raiders Launches on Switch 2 This July

The squid kids will be back this summer. Nintendo announced this morning that Splatoon Raiders, a single-player spinoff of its competitive shooter series, will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23rd. It’ll be the first new entry in the series since Splatoon 3 in 2022. In addition to the date, Nintendo also released […]