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...
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Musk Lifted Bans for Thousands on Twitter. Here’s What They’re Tweeting.
Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.
Microsoft Gambles on ‘Nice Guy’ Strategy to Close Activision Megadeal
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.
ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists
The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.
Twitter Is Said to Have Struggled Over Revealing US Influence Campaign
Internal emails showed the company’s communications with the Pentagon over a network of military-run accounts.
YouTube Reaches Deal for N.F.L Sunday Ticket
Tech giants including Apple, Amazon and YouTube’s owner, Google, pursued the rights to stream the N.F.L. games.
LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands
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....
Compromised dispatch system helped move taxis to front of the line
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,...
(BPRW) Denton Black Film Festival Announces Ticket Sales, Featured Films and Special Programming
(Black PR Wire) DENTON, TEXAS – As one of the Southwest’s most successful events, the Denton Black Film Festival today announced that tickets and passes are now available for its entertaining and engaging list of activities taking place,
How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person
It’s a turning point for artificial intelligence, and we need to take advantage of these tools without causing harm to ourselves or others.