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Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million in a privacy settlement with 40 state attorneys general over its location tracking practices, according to Oregon's Department of Justice on Monday. The agreement is the largest consumer privacy settlement by states in US history. States argued that the search
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The company says Musk's concerns about the start of World War 3 are one of the reasons he pulled out of the acquisition, as lawyers for Elon Musk and Twitter disagree on whether whistleblower claims should be added to the former's lawsuit. Twitter's former
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With its imposing red brick houses, neat gardens and red postbox, Baskerville Road in the borough of Wandsworth is a classic example of family residences in the more affluent areas of London. But something is amiss. Just outside a house on the corner, which happens to be the former home
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A previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone reveals that "private" messaging apps WhatsApp and iMessage are deeply vulnerable to law-enforcement searches. AS Apple and WhatsApp have built themselves into multibillion-dollar behemoths, they’ve done it while preaching the importance of privacy, especially when it comes to
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Twitter’s former head of security alleged that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation, according to a whistleblower complaint filed with U.S. officials. The revelation could create serious legal and financial problems for
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Google has revealed a new learning model that is capable of improving a robot’s overall performance and ability to perform complex and abstract tasks, as well as handle complex human requests. The Google-Everyday Robots research better known as 'PaLM-SayCan,' employs PaLM - or Pathways Language Model -
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A former Twitter employee was convicted on Tuesday by a jury in federal court of six charges related to accusations that he spied on the company’s users for Saudi Arabia. While at Twitter, Ahmad Abouammo, 44, managed media partnerships in the Middle East and North Africa. He developed relationships
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In April 2020, an unnamed Chinese government entity attempted to queitly join TikTok in order to share propaganda with Western audiences. According to internal TikTok messages seen by Bloomberg(Opens in a new window), the request to open a stealth account was shared with Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok’s head of
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Widely circulated reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating $20 billion crypto exchange Coinbase are just the tip of the iceberg, according to a staffer from U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis’ (R-Wy) office. The staffer says every U.S. crypto exchange—and the largest crypto
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Newly unearthed documents obtained by America First Legal Foundation reveal that top U.S. health officials worked hand-in-hand with big tech companies to moderate content related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The documents released Wednesday were obtained after America First Legal sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after
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Joe Rogan expressed concerns Tuesday that TikTok, one of the most used social media apps in the world, poses a unique threat to Americans' data privacy and safety. TikTok is owned by Bytedance, a Chinese company. China's Civil Military Fusion Policy and 2017 National Intelligence Law requires
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi husband, Paul Pelosi, has sold all of his stock in NVIDIA on Tuesday as Congress is set to pass the "CHIPS-plus" bill. Paul Pelosi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of NVIDIA stock, or 25,000 shares, at an average