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Snap won’t attend court in landmark social media addiction trial
A landmark social media addiction trial is looming, and big tech players like Meta and ByteDance are set for the chopping block. But one social media company just narrowly avoided court.
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Billionaires duped by fake VIP passes at Davos ahead of Trump speech
Even billionaires are not immune to petty scams. Multiple wealthy attendees of this year’s World Economic Forum apparently bought fake VIP tickets to an event featuring US President Donald Trump, also scheduled to be in Davos for the annual event on Wednesday.
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“Make America Go Away” hats selling out as Trump threatens Greenland
Red hats mocking Trump’s “Make America Great Again” style, emblazoned with “MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY” in bold white letters, have been made available online, with the goal of supporting Greenland's movement to resist an American takeover.
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Celebrities pay heartfelt tributes to Valentino Garavani on Instagram and X
Celebrities and fans are paying tribute to world-famous fashion designer Valentino Garavani, who has died aged 93.
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CISA chief’s attempt to oust agency’s CIO folded by insiders – media
The agency’s acting chief tried to oust CISA’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Robert Costello, but the attempt was blocked by other members of America's civilian cyber defense agency.
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Britain says Meta failed to stop illegal online casino ads
Britain's Gambling Commission said on Monday that Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, was turning a blind eye to illegal online casinos advertising on its sites, indicating it was happy to continue taking money from criminals.
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That UFO above China isn’t alien – it’s a power plant
A giant airship launched in the Sichuan province of China has started trending heavily on social media, with many initially believing that it could have been a UFO.
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Supreme Court to decide if police cellphone location warrants are constitutional
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether it’s constitutional for police to sweep up cellphone location data under broad search warrants.
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Musk seeking up to $134bn from OpenAI, Microsoft in "wrongful gains"
Elon Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from ChatGPT’s owner, OpenAI, and Microsoft, arguing that he’s entitled to “wrongful gains that OpenAI and Microsoft have earned”.
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Anna’s Archive hit with court order to delete scraped data
US District Court Judge Michael Watson ordered Anna’s Archive, an open-source search engine for "shadow libraries," to purge its copies of data from WorldCat, a leading library metadata collection, and stop scraping, storing, and distributing it.
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Grubhub confirms data breach: hackers demand ransom tied to Salesforce attacks
Grubhub confirms it's been hacked after unauthorized actors gain access to internal systems. Now sources say the company is facing extortion demands – rumored to be connected to the infamous Shiny Hunters Salesforce attack campaign.
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Judge orders Tennessee to expand media access to executions
A judge ordered Tennessee prison officials to allow wider media access to state-run executions amid a lawsuit claiming that the current protocols unconstitutionally limit journalistic coverage.
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Democrats push for federal probe into Trump Mobile tied to misleading marketing
Several Democratic lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, have requested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate a Trump-branded mobile network provider, Trump Mobile, over “potentially deceptive” marketing claims.
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Mother of Elon Musk’s son sues xAI over Grok deepfake images
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of the 14 of Elon Musk’s known children, filed a lawsuit against Musk’s xAI over sexualized images of her produced in response to users’ requests.
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Moen luxury faucet-maker claimed by Qilin ransomware
Moen, a top luxury faucet brand found in millions of homes and sold in thousands of home improvement stores across the US, is claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.
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China-led digital currency platform surges, challenging dollar-based payments
Transactions on a new China-led digital currency platform have surged to over $55 billion, a new report shows, the latest sign that efforts to build alternatives to dollar-dependent global payment systems are gaining traction.
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China bets on quantum cyber weapons to win future wars
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has revealed that it is developing quantum cyber warfare tools in an effort to collect priority military intelligence from the public internet.
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Passenger flees as Waymo self-driving car heads down train tracks
A Waymo self-driving car has accidentally ended up on the tracks of a light-rail line in the city of Phoenix, Arizona.
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First-ever medical evacuation sees Crew-11 Dragon Spacecraft splash land in Pacific Ocean
SpaceX has recovered a four-member crew from orbit following an unknown medical condition affecting one of its crew members.
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Verizon outage impacts thousands nationwide, crews mobilize
Verizon Wireless, along with several other major mobile carriers, says it is actively working to resolve “issues” after suffering network outages on Wednesday, impacting more than 180,000 users across the US.
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