State lawmakers across the country prioritized children’s online safety and privacy in 2025. Utah, Texas and Louisiana have taken an aggressive approach through new app store accountability acts.

Alphabet today reported Q3 2025 earnings, and CEO Sundar Pichai shared that the Gemini app has over 650 million active users. Earlier this year, court documents revealed that Gemini had 350 million ...

On the bright side: Not everyone will be able to use the popular video app, unlike its sister app ChatGPT. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and ...

The Neon app has a security flaw that can expose call data. The app has been taken offline for now. The developer expects the app to return in one to two weeks. People trying to earn money by sharing ...

Plus: A ransomware gang steals data on 8,000 preschoolers, Microsoft blocks Israel’s military from using its cloud for surveillance, call-recording app Neon hits pause over security holes, and more.

A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies, has rapidly risen to the ranks of the top-five free iPhone apps ...

A new app is paying users to record their phone calls for AI training purposes. Credit: Neon Mobile Get paid to record your phone calls and hand them over to third parties? It may seem a bit dystopian ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the Vote, ...

TikTok may soon escape the threat of a nationwide ban in the United States. But for the 170 million Americans who use it, the version they will open looks unlikely to be the version they know. A ...

Ahead of US football season getting into full swing, two brand new streaming services are launching this week. ESPN and FOX One both launch on August 21, closing significant sports availability gaps ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to make its official app store the default gateway for Windows software. The effort has mostly flopped, but the company keeps nudging the store toward ...

The first time I saw the “Duplicate without user-selected canonical” error in Google Search Console, I gulped. “Oh, no. Please, not this.” Then I saw it again ...