Abrar Al-Heeti of CNET joins Mikah Sargent on the show this week! Do Americans trust driverless vehicles? Safety tools for Social Media are failing kids. Sony is ceasing the production of physical games in January 2028. And a Supreme Court ruling guts the government’s use of geofence warrants.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A new Pew Research survey finds only 5% of U.S. adults have ridden in a driverless car, and 71% say they wouldn’t feel comfortable riding in one in the first place.
\n\u2022 An audit conducted by the Cybersafety Research Center showcases that, within Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube, the research center found 51 of 86 advertised child-safety features were either broken, buried, or missing.
\n\u2022 Sony announced it will stop making physical discs for new PlayStation games starting in January 2028.
\n\u2022 And in Chatrie v. United States, which reached the Supreme Court, the Court ruled 6-3 that police need a warrant to obtain Google location-history data, further extending Fourth Amendment protections for Americans.<\/p>\n
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