The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage notched its biggest one-day drop in more than a year on Friday. Although mortgage rates are now at their lowest level since October, the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage is still just around 6.29%, according to Mortgage News Daily — a big leap from the under […]
Ex-Meta employee whistleblower suit alleged security flaws WhatsApp
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images An ex-Meta employee sued the social media company on Monday over allegations that its WhatsApp messaging service contained “systemic cybersecurity failures” that potentially compromise user privacy. Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, alleged that Meta retaliated against him after he notified leaders, including CEO […]
Goldie Hawn shares cheeky swimsuit photo for son Oliver Hudson’s birthday
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Goldie Hawn posted a cheeky photo to celebrate her son’s birthday. The 79-year-old actress posted a photo of her and her son Oliver Hudson standing next to each other, taken from behind, as they look out onto the ocean in their swimsuits. In the photo, Hawn is […]
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world will take the necessary measures […]
SEC Crypto Task Force To Tackle Financial Surveillance And Privacy
The cryptocurrency task force with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is planning to hold another roundtable that could lead to policy changes at the financial regulator. In a Monday notice, the SEC said the crypto task force, headed by Commissioner Hester Peirce, would host a public roundtable on financial surveillance and privacy on […]
Student loan payments on pause? What to know
Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images There’s been a sharp uptick in the number of student loan borrowers hitting the pause button on their monthly bills. The U.S. Department of Education offers two primary ways to postpone your payments — deferments and forbearances. Between those statuses, more than a quarter of the country’s over 40 […]
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors’ copyright lawsuit
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, who claimed the artificial intelligence startup had illegally accessed their books. The company will pay roughly $3,000 per book plus interest, and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material, according to a […]
Drew Barrymore recalls daughter’s e-bike accident in France
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Drew Barrymore’s “Charlie’s Angels” spy skills paid off for her family. Barrymore, 50, revealed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that her daughter suffered a severe injury while mountain biking in France recently. Ahead of the debut of the sixth season of her own talk show, […]
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules
If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently “convince” some LLMs […]
Trump Family’s Collective Wealth Grows by $1.3 Billion Thanks to Crypto
The family of United States president Donald Trump grew their collective wealth by $1.3 billion this week amid the trading debut of mining company American Bitcoin (ABTC), and gains from World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol linked to the Trump family. World Liberty Financial has added $670 million to the Trump family’s […]