Technology

Social media companies are bracing themselves for an onslaught of new legal battles across the United States. State and federal lawsuits and bills including far-reaching regulatory measures are flooding in.  The majority of state legislatures have […]

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TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew will testify in March before Congress. The TikTok CEO will appear before the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee in March, as lawmakers look to scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, Chair […]

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One of the most dangerous and prolific hacker gangs has been brought down. U.S. authorities have seized the servers of the notorious Hive ransomware group.  The hacking group has received more than $100 million in extortion […]

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States are turning to the FBI for guidance over TikTok. However, the FBI has offered no additional evidence. States are bringing in new bans on the use of TikTok on government devices and networks. When Maryland adopted […]

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US tech giant Microsoft is making a multiyear, $US10 billion worth investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as part of the third phase of their long-term partnership and work toward creating advanced AI that benefits everyone, the […]

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Is your TV spying on you? This week Fox News published an article about how televisions may be stealing your data.  The article said that tracking on television is just like how tracking works on a […]

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A cyber-criminal allegedly stole roughly $700,000 from Sen. Jerry Moran’s (R-Kan.) campaign in November, according to the campaign, The Hill reported. Timothy Gottschalk, the treasurer for the Moran campaign, said last month in a statement […]

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Amazon is ending its charity donation program AmazonSmile. The program, now a decade old, saw Amazon donate 0.5 percent of eligible purchases to a charity of the shopper’s choice.  More than $400 million had been […]

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Google is about to slash 12,000 jobs.  It makes the company the latest in big tech to reduce its work force.  The cuts amount to about 6 percent of Google’s global work force.  Tech companies […]

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported on Thursday that a preliminary investigation revealed that contract workers “unintentionally deleted files,” which disrupted a crucial computer system and led to a nationwide ground stop on January 11 […]

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Donald Trump has petitioned Meta to restore his access to Facebook.  It comes as Trump is reportedly looking to shift his 2024 presidential campaign into a higher gear. Trump was banned from Facebook more than […]

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Social media companies failed to address the online extremism and call for violence that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol.  The House committee that spent months investigating the violent riot collected stunning evidence […]

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Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced on Tuesday that it has imposed a more than $17 million fine on US tech giant Apple for violating Russia’s anti-monopoly legislation and abuse of its dominant market position. […]

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The clock could be ticking for one of the most popular social media apps in the world. TikTok is trying to win more allies in the United States. For years, TikTok has had U.S. lawmakers sounding […]

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According to a report released on Thursday by Chainalysis, a platform that provides data on blockchain technology, the volume of crypto transactions funding illegal activities – such as terrorism and human trafficking – has quadrupled […]

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The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind popular social media platforms TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health […]

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After it has established that Facebook and Instagram violated EU privacy law, the Irish data regulator fined their parent firm Meta $416 million on Wednesday, bringing the total penalties Dublin handed to Meta in just […]

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The new NASA James Webb Space Telescope has released stunning images after its one year in space. Christmas Day marked the one-year anniversary of NASA’s $10 billion Webb telescope blasting into space.  It has beamed back […]

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One New Yorker filed a class-action lawsuit against the tech giant Apple on Dec. 24, alleging that the blood oximeter in Apple Watch had a racial bias against people with darker skin tones. According to […]

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Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk has allegedly ordered in the past few days that Twitter removes a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, […]

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According to fresh Twitter Files revealed on Friday, employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation frequently contacted Twitter employees to alert them about accounts that “may” violate the company’s terms of service, Fox News informed. […]

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The Pentagon awarded a massive contract of cloud contracts, splitting it between four big tech companies Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.  The $9 billion cloud computing contracts will be dealt out separately to each company.  […]

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Google is launching a new project in India to combat misinformation, which has been blamed for inciting violence in the country, Reuters reported. The new initiative will use “prebunking” videos, which are specifically designed to […]

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