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Typos and misprints may be common mistakes in texts and emails (and on rare occasions, news articles). But what about city street signs ? Yes, even street signs : The most observant Chicagoans have pointed out these anomalies many times.
“There was one up in Rogers Park several years ago where Rogers Avenue was spelled with a ‘d’ like Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback,” said Bill Savage, professor of instruction in the Department of English at Northwestern University.
Savage is writing a (…)

Hundreds of Chicago teens huddled in the cold February air in Lincoln Square on Monday to speak out against President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and to advocate for immigrant communities.
Students from several high schools, including Mather, Northside College Prep, Roosevelt, Amundsen and Von Steuben, walked out of school about noon carrying flags from Mexico, the U.S. and other countries. They called for federal immigration officers to leave Chicago and other cities.
Students (…)

In September last year, we launched a major update of Proton Mail for iOS and Android.
On the surface, the new apps deliver a modern design, better performance, and offline capabilities—but there is a lot more than meets the eye. Behind the scenes, the apps are a complete rewrite of Proton Mail on a novel technology stack, a project that goes by the internal name of Engineering Transformation. The term novel is deliberate, because — to the best of our knowledge — this has been the first (…)

The housing market usually slows down in the winter, due to the holidays and frigid weather.
But Grigory Pekarsky, co-owner of Vesta Preferred Realty, has done more deals in January than some agents do in a year. Pekarsky said he's sold more than 70 homes, and it’s coming off the coattails of a busier-than-usual December, he said.
“The market just completely opened up, and it started to pace fast in early December,” Pekarsky said. “I was like, ‘This is going to be a really, really (…)

ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.

The AI “alignment problem” posits that as AI systems become more intelligent, it will become more difficult to align their goals with those of their developers. An AI system could, in theory, “go rogue”, devising undesirable and unpredictable strategies to achieve an objective.
The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment that explores this concept : If a superintelligent AI was tasked with the single purpose of creating paperclips, it might commandeer the world’s resources to (…)

The pace of change on the internet seems to be accelerating. AI has supercharged the sense of whiplash, with technological breakthroughs hitting the market as quickly as companies can produce them.
This volatility makes predicting trends a tricky business. But as a privacy tech company, anticipating trends is our job. For each of the past few years, we’ve published our best guesses about where the digital ship might be headed. It helps us develop new products that keep you in control of (…)

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

A newly filed class-action lawsuit in U.S. federal court alleges that WhatsApp’s promise of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is misleading. The complaint claims that Meta employees are able to access the contents of WhatsApp messages through internal systems, despite repeated assurances that “not even WhatsApp ” can read user messages.
Read the full lawsuit here : WhatsApp-E2EE-lawsuit Download
The lawsuit, filed on Jan. 23 in the Northern District of California, makes sweeping allegations. (…)

OpenAI announced its plans to show ads to ChatGPT users, with tests starting for US users on the Free tier and the newly introduced Go plan in the coming weeks. The company said that : Ads won’t influence ChatGPT’s responses. Ads will be clearly labeled and visually separate. Conversations and personal data will not be shared with advertisers. Ads won’t be shown to users under 18, based on user disclosure or OpenAI’s own predictions. Ads won’t appear near sensitive or regulated topics such (…)