(Black PR Wire) Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, recently launched the “Black Tech Agenda” which is endorsed by several prominent members of Congress: Senator Cory Booker (NJ), Senator Elizab
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Text Messaging Is Cool. But Where Are Its Boundaries?
Apple and Google have added useful features to texting apps, yet the apps still lack a major component: an effective way to set limits.
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California Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, said the retailer punishes companies that offer lower prices on other websites.
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E.U. Scores Major Legal Victory Against Google
A court rejected Google’s appeal of a record-setting antitrust fine related to Android and online search.
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Iranians hacked US companies, sent ransom demands to printers, indictment says
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bill Hinton) Three Iranian nationals charged with hacking into US-based computer networks sent ransom demands to the printers of at least some of their victims, according to an indictment unsealed today. The ransom demands allegedly sought payments in exchange for BitLocker decryption keys that the victims could use to regain...
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China’s most advanced AI image generator already blocks political content
Enlarge / Images generated by ERNIE-ViLG from the prompt “China” superimposed over China’s flag. (credit: Ars Technica) China’s leading text-to-image synthesis model, Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG, censors political text such as “Tiananmen Square” or names of political leaders, reports Zeyi Yang for MIT Technology Review. Image synthesis has proven popular (and controversial) recently on social media and...
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(BPRW) New Name. Same Soul: Real Times Media Relaunches its Cultural Marketing Division as Pitch Black
(Black PR Wire) DETROIT–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Real Times Media, relaunched its cultural marketing division as Pitch Black today. Formerly known as RTM360°, the newly minted Pitch Black will continue to help clients connect with Black audiences through a
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Whistle-Blower Says Twitter ‘Chose to Mislead’ on Security Flaws
At a Senate hearing, Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, told lawmakers that the company lied about its data practices.
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Celsius Network Plots a Comeback After a Crypto Crash
The chief executive of the experimental crypto bank Celsius has told employees about an audacious plan to revive the firm, which filed for bankruptcy in July.
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Breach of software maker used to backdoor as many as 200,000 servers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Fishpig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig’s...