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TikTok, Reels, jobs: online habits by the minute
Sixty-seven percent of the global population used the internet this year – more than ever before. What do they spend their time on?
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Cybersec firm gets a ‘rare compliment’ as Moscow declares it ‘undesirable’
The Kremlin considers Recorded Future harmful to Russia’s interests and security. The firm’s chief executive considers it to be as rare a compliment one can get.
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Billion-dollar airline faces $450M fine over alleged GDPR violations
The European Center for Digital Rights (noyb) has filed a complaint against Ryanair for forcing its customers to set up accounts and submit “invasive biometrics” to book flights.
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Grubhub to fork over $25M for deceptive delivery fees, job adverts
Grubhub is being forced to pay back $25 million to diners, food delivery drivers, and small restaurants, to settle multiple charges of deceptive and unfair business practices brought by the FTC.
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Virtual festive roundup for loners
It can often feel like slim pickings when you’re scrambling around for virtual xmas events. Here, we look at some online options if you're spoiled for choice and simply don’t know where to put yourself this festive season.
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Data breach comes back to haunt Meta as tech giant fined $260M
The European Union’s top data privacy regulator has fined Meta €251 million ($263 million) over a data breach affecting almost 30 million Meta users back in 2018.
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No Pornhub in Florida? Here's what's happening
“No porn” may be a popular New Year’s resolution in Florida, with the world’s most visited adult site going dark in the state at the turn on January 1st.
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RATs can sniff out your Chinese-made web cameras: here’s how to defend yourself
Malicious campaigns are attacking Chinese-branded IoT devices – web cameras and DVRs – to crack authentication. Unfortunately, vendors are seemingly not in a rush to patch the targeted vulnerabilities.
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Healthcare hacking spree continues as another 225K exposed
US healthcare provider Regional Care, Inc. (RCI) has contacted nearly a quarter of a million people whose data was exposed in a hacker attack.
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TikTok wish lists: a new era of privilege?
Forget Santa – today’s kids are taking their gift lists to TikTok, turning holiday wishes into public demands. Is this the new face of entitlement?
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Congo sues Apple over ‘blood minerals’
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has accused Apple of covering up war crimes in lawsuits filed against the tech giant in Europe.
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Windows to block PornHub? German state leaders hope so
An already controversial draft legislation on youth protection in Germany has now been infused with steroids. The updated proposal requires operating systems to incorporate filtering mechanisms to block access to pornography.
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Two men arrested for 'hazardous drone' ops in Boston adding to UAP hysteria
Two men caught flying drones "dangerously close" to Boston’s Logan International Airport have been taken in by authorities after another weekend of drone anxiety in the Northeast US led to the closure of several nearby airports and military bases.
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Rhode Island left scrambling as Deloitte confirms breach likely impacting thousands
Rhode Island’s main benefits system, RIBridges, was cut off after a likely ransomware attack on Deloitte. In the worst-case scenario, anyone who applied for health coverage has been exposed.
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Europol battles online hate speech while social media platforms sit idle
Europol has supported 18 European law enforcement agencies in helping fight online hate speech and violence against different ethnoreligious groups.
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AI deepfakes are targeting women in politics at alarming rates
A new report has found that women in Congress are 70 times more likely to be targeted by deepfakes than men, often with sexually explicit images created by AI.
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Altman follows Zuckerberg, Bezos with $1M Trump donation
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman on Friday said he will donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund as a gesture of goodwill towards the President-elect before he officially takes office on January 20th.
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TikTok ban: Apple, Google warned to get app stores “ready” for Jan. 19th deadline
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday were warned by US lawmakers to be prepared to enforce a January 19th deadline that would ban TikTok if the Chinese-owned ByteDance refuses to divest the short video app.
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Texas probes AI firms after chatbot tells kid it would understand killing his parents
In a lawsuit filed this week, a mother in Texas says that a Character.AI chatbot encouraged her 17-year-old son to self-harm and suggested it would be understandable to kill his parents for limiting his screen time. The Lone Star State has had enough.
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Zuckerberg, Bezos donate $1 million to Trump following in Musk's footsteps, but what's the endgame?
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon donated $1,000,000 each to Trump’s inaugural fund on Thursday, in what appears to be the latest move by big tech leaders to court the newly re-elected President and stay in his good graces.
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