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Today โ€” 7 October 2026Tech & News

Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends

By: Emma Roth
7 October 2026 at 13:40
An illustration of the Amazon logo.

Most people know that Amazon collects data about your shopping history to serve up personalized product recommendations. But what some of us didn't realize is that you can check exactly what Amazon knows - or thinks it knows - about you in your settings menu. One user's findings went viral on Threads after she discovered that Amazon assumed she "has flat buttocks" based on her purchases, resulting in a flood of other posts with users sharing the oddly specific information Amazon uses to describe them.

In another post, a user found that Amazon says they don't "trust people easily," while someone else discovered that Amazon thinks she "finds โ€ฆ

Read the full story at The Verge.

AI could upend food delivery

By: Mia Sato
7 October 2026 at 12:00

DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 300 restaurants signed up in the Bay Area, where it's operating as a pre-seed startup. But this summer, Bites caught DoorDash's attention.

In August, a slew of restaurants in the Bay Area received a strange email from DoorDash, warning businesses that they may be listed without their consent on Bites.

The form letter, copies of which were seen by The Verge, said that DoorDash had heard from "several partners" that were adde โ€ฆ

Read the full story at The Verge.

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