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Unsealed court doc shows why Apple rejected Microsoft’s offer to buy Bing
After failing for almost a decade to convince Apple to ditch Google and set Bing as Safari’s default…
Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business
Reddit filed to go public on Thursday (PDF), revealing various details of the social media company’s inner workings.…
How your sensitive data can be sold after a data broker goes bankrupt
In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The…
India’s plan to let 1998 digital trade deal expire may worsen chip shortage
India’s plan to let a moratorium on imposing customs duties on cross-border digital e-commerce transactions expire may end…
Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules
Anjali Nair; Getty Images To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services,…
Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps
Getty Images Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions,…
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
Aurich Lawson | Mars | Getty Images Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending…
Snapchat isn’t liable for connecting 12-year-old to convicted sex offenders
A judge has dismissed a complaint from a parent and guardian of a girl, now 15, who was…
ISPs keep giving false broadband coverage data to the FCC, groups say
Getty Images | Andrey Denisyuk Internet service providers are still providing false coverage information to the Federal Communications…
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public
Thousands of the most dedicated Reddit users will have a chance to snag shares when the company goes…
Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says
Enlarge / Elon Musk at the New York Times DealBook Summit on November 29, 2023, in New York…
Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain
Enlarge / A Neuralink implant. Neuralink Neuralink co-founder Elon Musk said the first human to be implanted with…
Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy
Getty Images | OcusFocus A federal appeals court today overturned a $1 billion piracy verdict that a jury…
Report: Apple is about to be fined €500 million by the EU over music streaming
Brussels is to impose its first-ever fine on tech giant Apple for allegedly breaking EU law over access…
EU accuses TikTok of failing to stop kids pretending to be adults
The European Commission (EC) is concerned that TikTok isn’t doing enough to protect kids, alleging that the short-video…
Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers
Once again, Cloudflare has proven that its unusual defense against meritless patent infringement claims effectively works to end…
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off
Getty Images Apple’s iMessage service is not a “gatekeeper” prone to unfair business practices and will thus not…
How a musician accused of fraud got his music back on Spotify, iTunes
Enlarge / Musician Benn Jordan, who performs under the alias The Flashbulb, successfully defended his music against streaming…
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who…
Apple disables iPhone web apps in EU, says it’s too hard to comply with rules
Getty Images | NurPhoto Apple is removing the ability to install home screen web apps from iPhones and…
Elon Musk’s X allows China-based propaganda banned on other platforms
Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement…
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com…
AMC to pay $8M for allegedly violating 1988 law with use of Meta Pixel
On Thursday, AMC notified subscribers of a proposed $8.3 million settlement that provides awards to an estimated 6…
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
Enlarge / Building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France). The European Court of Human…
Musk’s X sold checkmarks to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, report says
Getty Images | NurPhoto A watchdog group’s investigation found that terrorist group Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities have…
Cryptocurrency maker sues former Ars reporter for writing about fraud lawsuit
Enlarge / Image from Bitcoin Latinum’s website Bitcoin Latinum The cryptocurrency firm Bitcoin Latinum has sued journalists at…
Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors
A US district judge in California has largely sided with OpenAI, dismissing the majority of claims raised by…
Court orders Elon Musk to testify for SEC, rejects his claim of “harassment”
Enlarge / Elon Musk leaves court in San Francisco, California Jan. 24, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg A…
Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges
Amazon rigged its platform to “routinely” push an overwhelming majority of customers to pay more for items that…
Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true
Getty Images | Science Photo Library In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting…
US funds $5B chip effort after lagging on semiconductor innovation
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks before signing the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The Biden…
Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses
Getty Images | NurPhoto Movie companies have lost a third attempt to unmask Reddit users who posted comments…
Female ex-exec told she lacked “docility and meekness” sues TikTok
One of TikTok’s senior-most female executives, Katie Ellen Puris, is suing TikTok and its owner ByteDance, alleging wrongful…
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown
Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device https://flipperzero.one/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy…
Over a decade later, climate scientist prevails in libel case
Enlarge / Climate scientist Michael Mann. This is a story I had sporadically wondered whether I’d ever have…
These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump
Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling…
Some Calif. cops still sharing license plate info with anti-abortion states
Dozens of California police agencies are still sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities without…
Cable TV companies tell FCC: Early termination fees are good, actually
Getty Images | Jeffrey Coolidge Cable and satellite TV companies are defending their early termination fees (ETFs) in…
Texas firm allegedly behind fake Biden robocall that told people not to vote
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks on the phone in the Rose Garden of the White House…
Four bolts were missing from Boeing 737 before door plug blew off, NTSB says
Enlarge / Rows 25 and 26 in the Boeing plane that lost a door plug during flight. NTSB…
“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan
AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is drawing protest from residents as state officials…
EU right to repair: Sellers will be liable for a year after products are fixed
Getty Images | SimpleImages Europe’s right-to-repair rules will force vendors to stand by their products an extra 12…
4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images
4chan users who have made a game out of exploiting popular AI image generators appear to be at…
Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay plan voided as shareholders beat Tesla in court
Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $55.8 billion pay package was unfair to…
Zuckerberg says sorry for Meta harming kids—but rejects payments to families
Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discussed Meta’s approaches to child safety at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing January 31,…
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse
Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy when it dramatically changed the prices and rules associated with accessing its…
eBay to pay $59M after DOJ ties pill press sales to fentanyl drug rings
eBay has agreed to pay $59 million after the US Department of Justice accused the online marketplace of…
Elon Musk proposes Tesla move to Texas after Delaware judge voids $56 billion pay
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at Tesla’s “Cyber Rodeo” on April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas.…
Are there specific laws governing wrongful dismissal in Toronto?
wrongful dismissal in Toronto Wrongful dismissal is the legal term for when an employer fires an employee without…
Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules
Enlarge / US Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) speaks to the press on June 13, 2023, in Washington, DC.…
Cops arrest 17-year-old suspected of hundreds of swattings nationwide
Enlarge / Booking photo of Alan Filion, charged with multiple felonies connected to a “swatting” incident at the…
FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law
Getty Images | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on making the use of AI-generated…
Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says
Law enforcement is continuing to warn that a “flood” of AI-generated fake child sex images is making it…
Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims
Comcast Comcast has reluctantly agreed to discontinue its “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing an appeal of…
Lawsuit: Citibank refused to reimburse scam victims who lost “life savings”
Enlarge / The Citibank logo on a bank in New York City in January 2024. Citibank has illegally…
SIM-swapping ring stole $400M in crypto from a US company, officials allege
The US may have uncovered the nation’s largest “SIM swap” scheme yet, charging a Chicago man and co-conspirators…
Apple warns proposed UK law will affect software updates around the world
Apple is “deeply concerned” that proposed changes to a United Kingdom law could give the UK government unprecedented…
Amazon’s $1.4B Roomba bid fails, leading to iRobot layoffs and CEO resignation
Getty Images Amazon will no longer pursue a $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot, maker of Roomba robot vacuums…
HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges
Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them…
Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
Enlarge / Illustration of AST SpaceMobile’s cellular satellite. AST SpaceMobile Google, AT&T, and Vodafone are investing $206.5 million…
Republicans in 20 states urge Supreme Court to uphold state social media laws
Getty Images | OsakaWayne Studios Republican officials from 20 states, including 19 state attorneys general, are backing Florida…
eBay lays off 1,000 employees, about 9 percent of full-time workforce
Getty Images | Justin Sullivan eBay is laying off approximately 1,000 employees in a move that reduces its…
NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data
The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying records from data brokers detailing which websites and apps…
Instagram stops letting random accounts send messages to teenagers
Some teens will now have their Facebook and Instagram accounts defaulted to a setting that blocks strangers from…
X can’t stop spread of explicit, fake AI Taylor Swift images
Explicit, fake AI-generated images sexualizing Taylor Swift began circulating online this week, quickly sparking mass outrage that may…
Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company
Getty Images | NurPhoto One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw…
Amazon Ring stops letting police request footage in Neighbors app after outcry
Amazon Ring has shut down a controversial feature in its community safety app Neighbors that has allowed police…
Mugger take your phone? Cash apps too easily let thieves drain accounts, DA says
Popular apps like Venmo, Zelle, and Cash App aren’t doing enough to protect consumers from fraud that occurs…
Patreon: Blocking platforms from sharing user video data is unconstitutional
Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators, has asked a federal judge to deem unconstitutional a rarely invoked…
Stop telling everyone that TurboTax is “free,” FTC orders Intuit
Getty Images | Bloomberg The Federal Trade Commission yesterday ruled that TurboTax maker Intuit violated US law with…
Robocall with artificial Joe Biden voice tells Democrats not to vote
Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023,…
Meta relents to EU, allows unlinking of Facebook and Instagram accounts
Meta will allow some Facebook and Instagram users to unlink their accounts as part of the platform’s efforts…
Teen sued Utah over social media law requiring curfew for minors
Enlarge / Utah high school student Hannah Zoulek sued Utah to block the Social Media Regulation Act from…
How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity
Sam Rodriguez JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist…
Supreme Court may overturn precedent governing climate regulations
Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine,…
FCC chair defends broadband discounts for poor people against Republican attack
Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at a Senate subcommittee hearing on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC.…
Amazon’s purchase of Roomba-maker iRobot likely to be blocked by EU
Getty Images | SOPA Images European Union regulators intend to block Amazon’s attempt to purchase Roomba-maker iRobot, The…
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”
Enlarge / Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu’s European division, testifies for a public inquiry in London on January…
Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Ultra 2. Apple Starting today, if you buy an Apple Watch Series 9…
TSMC predicts delays, less advanced chips at second Arizona fab
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks during a “First Tool-In” ceremony at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.…
Apple lets devs use alternate in-app payment options, still takes commissions
Getty Images | NurPhoto A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed yesterday when the…
Sharing deepfake porn could lead to lengthy prison time under proposed law
The US seems to be getting serious about criminalizing deepfake pornography after teen boys at a New Jersey…
Climate denialists find new ways to monetize disinformation on YouTube
Content creators have spent the past five years developing new tactics to evade YouTube’s policies blocking monetization of…
Apple Watch redesigned without blood oxygen monitoring to avoid import ban
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9. Apple Apple has developed a backup plan for if the Apple…
Verizon won’t stop charging $3.30 “Telco Recovery” fee, may raise it again
Enlarge / A Verizon store in New York on July 3, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg Verizon Wireless…
Canada vows to defend its drug supply against Florida importation plan
Enlarge / A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer stands guard outside the Senate of Canada prior to the…
Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam
Enlarge / A screenshot from Jack Gamble’s video outing Stephen Harrison as HyperVerse’s fake CEO, posted on Gamble’s…
“Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
Enlarge / Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability. SpaceX SpaceX is showing off the first text messages sent between…
Child abusers are covering their tracks with better use of crypto
For those who trade in child sexual exploitation images and videos in the darkest recesses of the Internet,…
EPA expands “high priority” probe into AT&T, Verizon lead-contaminated cables
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding its investigation into potential risks posed by lead-covered cables installed nationwide…
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable…
eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”
eBay has agreed to pay $3 million—the maximum criminal penalty possible—after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts…
Report: Deepfake porn consistently found atop Google, Bing search results
Popular search engines like Google and Bing are making it easy to surface nonconsensual deepfake pornography by placing…
US judge blocks Ohio Republicans’ “troublingly vague” social media law
Getty Images | Matt Cardy A federal judge blocked an Ohio state law that would prevent minors from…
Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video
Getty Images | NurPhoto Amazon today is laying off 500 employees at Twitch and several hundred more at…
SEC says X account was hacked as false post causes bitcoin price swings
Getty Images | Chesnot The Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account was hacked yesterday and briefly displayed a…
Facebook, Instagram block teens from sensitive content, even from friends
Meta has begun hiding sensitive content from teenagers under the age of 18 on Facebook and Instagram, a…
Consumer group wants to end $255M “gift card loophole” for Starbucks and others
Enlarge / Starbucks’ Rewards programs are a key part of their revenue. How the company deals with unspent…
Elon Musk drops price of X gold checks amid rampant crypto scams
There’s currently a surge in cryptocurrency and phishing scams proliferating on X (formerly Twitter)—hiding under the guise of…
23andMe told victims of data breach that suing is futile, letter shows
23andMe is “shamelessly” blaming victims of a data breach impacting 6.9 million users, a lawyer representing victims pursuing…
TurboTax maker Intuit’s $100 million tax credits challenged by US lawmakers
Getty Images | SOPA Images TurboTax maker Intuit’s tax breaks are being questioned by four US lawmakers who…
Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity
Enlarge / A still from a HyperVerse video featuring CEO Steven Reece Lewis. For years, rumors spread on…
SpaceX charged with illegally firing workers behind anti-Musk open letter
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks with members of the media at the AI Safety Summit on November 1,…
Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz “effective refresh rate”
Enlarge / A marketing image for Vizio’s P-series Q9 TV. Vizio has agreed to pay $3 million to…
Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value
Getty Images | DNY59 Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network…
Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit
Getty Images Google has indicated that it is ready to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over…
FDA would like to stop finding Viagra in supplements sold on Amazon
If you were to search for a product called “Mens Maximum Energy Supplement” on Amazon, you’d be bombarded…
NY Times sues Open AI, Microsoft over copyright infringement
Enlarge / Microsoft is named in the suit for allegedly building the system that allowed GPT derivatives to…
Elon Musk will see you in court: The top Twitter and X Corp. lawsuits of 2023
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) on…
Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma
Adobe has abandoned its proposed $20 billion acquisition of product design software company Figma, as there was “no…
After loss to Epic Games, Google announces $700M settlement with users, states
After Epic Games proved that Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, Google has agreed to pay…
US agency tasked with curbing risks of AI lacks funding to do the job
Aurich / Getty US president Joe Biden’s plan for containing the dangers of artificial intelligencealready risks being derailed…
Banks use your deposits to loan money to fossil-fuel, emissions-heavy firms
When you drop money in the bank, it looks like it’s just sitting there, ready for you to…
FTC suggests new rules to shift parents’ burden of protecting kids to websites
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently seeking comments on new rules that would further restrict platforms’ efforts…
EU will hold 3 major porn sites to same regulations as Meta, X
ToolX via Getty Images Three of the world’s biggest pornography sites will be hit with new regulatory curbs…
Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says
More than 1,000 known child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) were found in a large open dataset—known as LAION-5B—that…
Binance to pay $2.7 billion fine after hiding shady transactions from feds
Enlarge / Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ,” in May 10, 2022, in…
Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program
Enlarge / Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican caucus lunch…
Musk’s X hit with EU’s first investigation of Digital Services Act violations
Getty Images | Chris Delmas The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether Elon Musk’s X…
Disgraced Nikola founder Trevor Milton gets 4-year sentence for lying about EVs
Enlarge / Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., arrives at court in New York on Monday, Dec. 18,…
Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees
Getty Images | RoyalFive The Federal Communications Commission has taken a step toward prohibiting early termination fees charged…
Elon Musk told bankers they wouldn’t lose any money on Twitter purchase
Elon Musk privately told some of the bankers who lent him $13 billion to fund his leveraged buyout…
Judge rejects Elon Musk’s attempt to avoid testifying in Twitter stock probe
Getty Images | Bet_Noire Elon Musk can’t avoid testifying in an investigation into whether he violated federal securities…
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms
Some TikTok users may have skipped reviewing an update to TikTok’s terms of service this summer that shakes…
This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup
A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant…
Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people
We’ve all experienced it or heard about it happening: Someone has a conversation about wanting a red jacket,…
Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers
Twitch users have finally pushed the interactive livestreaming service to allow more nudity after years of banning mostly…
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
Getty Images | releon8211 Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution’s…
SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish. Getty Images | olegda88 SpaceX is furious at the Federal Communications Commission after…
Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
Enlarge / Dragon Sector uploaded a video to social media after discovering an “undocumented ‘unlock code’ which you…
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants
All of the big pharmacy chains in the US hand over sensitive medical records to law enforcement without…
Ted Cruz wants to stop the FCC from updating data-breach notification rules
Enlarge / Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, November 30, 2023. Getty…
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney jumping for joy at news of the verdict.…
Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars
Enlarge / Tesla Cybertruck displayed at Lincoln Center in New York. Getty Images | Roman Tiraspolsky Tesla has…
YouTuber pilot regrets intentionally crashing plane, gets 6 months in prison
Trevor Jacob, a 30-year-old YouTuber pilot who intentionally crashed his plane to drive up views on a sponsored…
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
Governments have been secretly tracking the app activity of an unknown number of people using Apple and Google…
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge
Getty Images | imagedepotpro The US broadband industry is protesting a Federal Communications Commission plan to measure the…
US regulators will now have access to years of Binance transaction data
Wired/Getty One attraction of Binance, as the company grew from its 2017 founding into the biggest cryptocurrency exchange…
After losing everywhere else, Elon Musk asks SCOTUS to get SEC off his back
Enlarge / Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday,…
Verizon fell for fake “search warrant,” gave victim’s phone data to stalker
Enlarge / A Verizon logo at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 on February 26, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.…
Meta defies FBI opposition to encryption, brings E2EE to Facebook, Messenger
Getty Images | Chesnot Meta has started enabling end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default for chats and calls on…
Twitch exit from S. Korea is latest fallout from “sending-party-pays” model
Getty Images | NurPhoto Amazon-owned Twitch plans to stop providing its streaming platform in South Korea, saying that…
After hack, 23andMe gives users 30 days to opt out of class-action waiver
Shortly after 23andMe confirmed that hackers stole ancestry data of 6.9 million users, 23andMe has updated its terms…
Ex-Twitter exec sues Musk, says he was fired for objecting to budget cuts
Getty Images | NurPhoto A former Twitter security executive sued Elon Musk and X Corp. yesterday, alleging that…
Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot “experiments in public roads”
Getty Images | SOPA Images A former Tesla employee who leaked thousands of accident reports and other documents…
Unproven AI face scans may estimate age for porn access in UK
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images AI face detection now counts among the tools that could be used to…
Hackers stole ancestry data of 6.9 million users, 23andMe finally confirmed
It’s now been confirmed that an additional 6.9 million 23andMe users had ancestry data stolen after hackers accessed…
Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised
After a spy camera designed to look like a towel hook was purchased on Amazon and illegally used…
Google to pay Canada’s “link tax,” drops threat of removing news from search
Getty Images | Manuel Augusto Moreno Google has agreed to pay Canadian news businesses $100 million a year…
Nvidia CEO: US chip independence may take 20 years to achieve
Enlarge / Founder and CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit…
Meta’s “overpriced” ad-free subscriptions make privacy a “luxury good”: EU suit
Backlash over Meta’s ad-free subscription model in the European Union has begun just one month into its launch.…
Montana’s TikTok ban blocked by federal judge
A federal judge has stopped a US state’s landmark ban on TikTok from going into effect, in an…
25M homes will lose broadband discounts if Congress keeps stalling, FCC warns
Enlarge / Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee hearing on…
X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview
Enlarge / X CEO Linda Yaccarino speaks onstage during Vox Media’s 2023 Code Conference on September 27, 2023…
Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
Getty Images | Chesnot Meta sued the Federal Trade Commission yesterday in a lawsuit that challenges the FTC’s…
New chip-packaging facility could save TSMC’s Arizona fab from “paperweight” status
Enlarge / Apple wants to build more of its A- and M-series chips in the United States. Apple…
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Elon Musk addressed an antisemitism controversy in characteristically unwise fashion during a public…
Web browser suspended because it can browse the web is back on Google Play
Getty Images | Alexander Koerner Google Play has reversed its latest ban on a web browser that keeps…
Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference
After an event organizer, Eduards Sizovs, was accused of making up fake female speakers to attract high-profile speakers…
Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates
The latest advertiser fallout on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, could end up costing Elon Musk’s…
Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices
Enlarge / The Downloader app that was suspended from Google Play. App developer Elias Saba has had some…
Apple fights EU gatekeeper status to avoid opening up services to rivals
Apple has officially joined Meta and TikTok in appealing the European Union’s designation of their services as “gatekeepers”…
After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns
Enlarge / Then-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 20, 2023, in San Francisco.…
Hate speech group calls Musk “thin-skinned tyrant” amid X advertiser fallout
Advertisers with zero-tolerance policies for antisemitism spent the weekend urging the CEO of X (formerly Twitter), Linda Yaccarino,…
Judge rejects Elon Musk’s attempt to kill Twitter/FTC privacy settlement
Getty Images | Bet_Noire Elon Musk lost an attempt to avoid a deposition and terminate a privacy settlement…
Musk files lawsuit claiming Media Matters manipulated X by scrolling down
On Monday, Elon Musk followed through with his promise to sue Media Matters over reporting that helped spark…
Report: After Altman firing, OpenAI tried to merge with rival—and was rejected
Enlarge / Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, during a hearing on AI held by…
Reports: Sam Altman in talks for OpenAI return; board members could be ousted
Enlarge / Then-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023, in…
Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023…
Elon Musk and Tesla ignored Autopilot’s fatal flaws, judge says evidence shows
A Florida judge, Reid Scott, has ruled that there’s “reasonable evidence” to conclude that Tesla and its CEO…