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Waze launches lane guidance, trip suggestions, traffic alerts, and more — VentureBeat

Waze is rolling out a host of new features, as the Google-owned navigation app looks to counter the pandemic-driven decrease in transport demand, writes Paul Sawers.

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How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page — The Guardian

Every week, the platform seems to supercharge a news issue that comes to dominate conservative discourse – and often mainstream discourse, as well – with real political repercussions; writes J Oliver Conroy.

Court strikes down US net neutrality rules — BBC

A US court has rejected the Biden administration's bid to restore "net neutrality" rules, finding that the federal government does not have the authority to regulate internet providers like utilities; writes Natalie Sherman. 

Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies — CNN

Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans; writes Allison Morrow. 

Apple agrees to $95 million settlement in Siri eavesdropping lawsuit — Gizmodo

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit that accused the company of illegally intercepting customers’ conversations through its Siri virtual assistant, writes Todd Feathers. 

The US Treasury Department was hacked — The Verge

The threat actor stole a key used by BeyondTrust “to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users, writes Emma Roth.