State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
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Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment
Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a long time.
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Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
As online services get better at blocking malicious traffic, the attackers and scammers behind them have been forced to find new ways to reach their targets. The alternative of choice is now what are known as residential proxy networks. These systems funnel millions of home Internet connections into a unified network, and the proxy operators...
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Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The ongoing effort, which has not been previously reported, may eventually allow Meta to operate its rapidly expanding data center footprint with fewer humans, keeping...
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(BPRW) Ashley Planks Shares How Creators Can Turn Content into Sustainable Businesses on ‘Thrivin’ in Color’
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI, FL – As the creator economy continues to evolve, content creators are increasingly becoming entrepreneurs, building brands, developing partnerships and turning their influence into sustainable business opportunities. In the la…
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Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply-chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said the two men were arrested...
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(BPRW) Anthony Brunson, P.A., announces a partnership and rebrands its corporate name
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI — As Black Business Month shines a spotlight on entrepreneurship and economic empowerment, Anthony Brunson, CPA, founder and owner of Anthony Brunson, P.A., one of South Florida’s largest Black-owned certified public…
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(BPRW) Celebrate 50 Years of Leadership, Service, and Impact in Energy
(Black PR Wire) The American Association of Blacks in Energy invites members, partners, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, emerging professionals, and supporters to save the date for the AABE 2027 50th Anniversary National Conference, tak…
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Prediction Markets and States Clashed, Setting Off a Furious Political Battle
A legal dispute over the future of Kalshi, Polymarket and others has drawn in the Trump administration, the president’s son and nearly every state attorney general.
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Meta Projected It Could Spend $10 Billion on Anthropic’s A.I.
The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic’s tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.