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The tech giant has so far taken steps to streamline without mass layoffs, but employees are girding for deeper cuts.

Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) More than once this year, AI experts have repeated a familiar refrain: “Please slow down.” AI news...

Enlarge (credit: Daniel Leal / Getty Images) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy tied to former President...

Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.

Federal regulators have sued to block the $69 billion acquisition, but the company has settled on a path forward and is preparing to force the issue.

The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.

Internal emails showed the company’s communications with the Pentagon over a network of military-run accounts.

Tech giants including Apple, Amazon and YouTube’s owner, Google, pursued the rights to stream the N.F.L. games.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords and other data stored in customer vaults. The revelation, posted on Thursday, represents a dramatic update to a breach LastPass disclosed in August....

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two men have been charged with participating in a scheme that raked in big money by using a compromised dispatch system at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to allow paying taxis to move to the front of the line. Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, both 48 and of Queens,...