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Critics call Florida bill aiming to protect minors a threat to encryption
When you want to protect minors from predators online, you inevitably have to cooperate with social media firms. But they’re not too keen to help because most bills require them to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials. This is what’s happening in Florida.
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Google found guilty for holding illegal monopoly over online ad tech
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its ad products.
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California court tells Nhentai adult site operators to unmask themselves
By order of a California federal court, the operators of Nhentai.net, a popular adult website visited by millions each month, will have to identify themselves as the case proceeds.
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ChatGPT users claim their chats have been swapped
Multiple ChatGPT users have reported a glitch that seemingly causes answers to be swapped between different users.
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UK hits Google with multi-billion dollar antitrust lawsuit
Already facing the possibility of being broken up in the US, American tech giant Google has now been additionally sued in the United Kingdom. Once again, the lawsuit concerns allegations of stifling competition.
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Zoom goes down for tens of thousands of users, repairs underway
Video conferencing platform Zoom on Wednesday said it has restored service for the tens of thousands of users after the platform went down in the middle of their workday.
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“Bot” students enroll in US community colleges to steal financial aid
“Bot” students are using fake aliases, enrolling in community college classes, and submitting AI-generated homework in order to collect millions of dollars in state and federal aid money. Colleges are struggling to respond.
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California attorney general declines to join Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI
The California attorney general’s office has announced it will not join Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI.
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Nvidia kept China clients in dark on US chip curbs – report
Two sources familiar with the matter say Nvidia did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new US export rules it was told about a week ago.
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Customers at risk: fraudulent Uber accounts for sale and rent on Facebook
Officially, Meta prohibits fraud. In reality, it just can’t keep up. In dozens of Facebook groups, hundreds of thousands of users freely buy and rent Uber accounts under other people’s identities. This is putting customers at risk, researchers say.
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BreachForums taken down by the FBI? Dark Storm hackers say they did it “for fun”
The notorious BreachForums online hacker marketplace appears to have been seized yet again. This time, it has been claimed by fellow hacktivst gang the Dark Storm Team – the same group believed responsible for last month’s massive outage of Elon Musk’s X.
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Conduent confirms data breach impact on clients’ details
American business service behemoth Conduent has confirmed the January data breach resulted in hackers stealing customer details, although there’s no evidence that the info was leaked online.
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Why is Katy Perry going to space?
Six influential women will board Blue Origin’s first-ever full female spaceflight. But why is Katy Perry going to space?
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Meta faces crisis at antitrust trial: will Mark Zuckerberg have to sell Instagram?
Facebook parent Meta Platforms faces a high-stakes trial in Washington starting on Monday on claims it built an illegal social media monopoly by spending billions of dollars to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Spain’s fight against La Liga streaming pirates hurts thousands of innocent sites
The road to hell can indeed be paved with good intentions. Spain wants to stop the widespread practice of illegal La Liga streams but is affecting thousands of innocent websites in the process, it seems.
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Real journalists rejoice: most Americans don’t like AI-generated news
The world’s largest news brands are already experimenting with AI in their content. But most readers aren’t impressed. In fact, the majority say they want AI as far away from real reporting as possible.
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Politicians' discourse has become way more toxic online
New data backs up the hunches we’ve all felt while scrolling through our politicians’ latest utterances on social media.
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US chipmakers can avoid China retaliatory tariffs – but only under one condition
US chipmakers Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD, and others will be exempt from China's retaliatory tariffs if they outsource manufacturing, China's semiconductor association said. 'Made in America' chipmakers, such as Intel and Texas Instruments, are not exempt.
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