Enlarge / A screenshot from Jack Gamble’s video outing Stephen Harrison as HyperVerse’s fake CEO, posted on Gamble’s “Nobody Special Finance” YouTube channel. reader comments 90 An actor who was hired to pretend to be the highly qualified CEO of a shady, collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund called HyperVerse has apologized after a YouTuber unmasked his ..
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Getty Images | Matt Cardy reader comments 113 A federal judge blocked an Ohio state law that would prevent minors from using social networks without parental consent, calling it a “troublingly vague” law that likely violates the First Amendment. Ohio’s “Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act” affects websites including Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 149 Amazon today is laying off 500 employees at Twitch and several hundred more at its MGM and Prime Video divisions, the company announced. The 500 job cuts at Twitch reportedly amount to 35 percent of the game-focused live-streaming platform’s staff. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced the cuts in ..
reader comments 58 Meta has begun hiding sensitive content from teenagers under the age of 18 on Facebook and Instagram, a company blog announced on Tuesday. Starting now, Meta will begin removing content from feeds and Stories about sensitive topics that have been flagged as harmful to teens by experts in adolescent development, psychology, and ..
Enlarge / A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer stands guard outside the Senate of Canada prior to the Speech from the Throne on September 23, 2020, in Ottawa. reader comments 187 Canada issued a warning Monday that it stands ready to defend its prescription drug supply from US importation plans—and also said the plans wouldn’t ..
reader comments 80 HP has used its “Dynamic Security” firmware updates to “create a monopoly” of replacement printer ink cartridges, a lawsuit filed against the company on January 5 claims. The lawsuit, which is seeking class-action certification, represents yet another form of litigation against HP for bricking printers when they try to use ink that ..
reader comments 32 European Union regulators are concerned that Microsoft may be covertly controlling OpenAI as its biggest investor. On Tuesday, the European Commission (EC) announced that it is currently “checking whether Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation.” The EC’s executive vice president in charge of competition policy, Margrethe Vestager, ..
reader comments 69 On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from X (formerly Twitter), alleging that the US government’s censorship of X transparency reports served as a prior restraint on the platform’s speech and was unconstitutional. This free speech battle predates Elon Musk’s ownership of the platform. Since 2014, the social media ..
Enlarge / An iPhone 6. Getty Images | Chesnot reader comments 39 US-based iPhone users are finally getting long-awaited payments to compensate them for Apple’s decision to throttle the performance of iPhones with degraded batteries. Apple agreed to settle with iPhone users in March 2020, but class-action lawsuits and settlements often take years to be ..
reader comments 90 There’s currently a surge in cryptocurrency and phishing scams proliferating on X (formerly Twitter)—hiding under the guise of gold and gray checkmarks intended to mark “Verified Organizations,” reports have warned this week. These scams seem to mostly commandeer dormant X accounts purchased online through dark web marketplaces, according to a whitepaper released ..
