reader comments 39 with Last month, the FBI created a national online database to finally start coordinating law enforcement reports about “swatting” attacks nationwide, NBC News reported yesterday. Swatting is a form of domestic terrorism that is sometimes deadly and has become more widespread in the US, according to a March report from Hal Berghel, ..
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reader comments 78 with It’s been a contentious journey, but Reddit’s new API pricing will take effect on July 1. What started as a fight over creating an affordable option for valued third-party Reddit apps has evolved into a bitter battle pitting Reddit against indignant developers, mods, and users. Protests remain, but some users are ..
Enlarge / A Google sign at the Viva Tech fair in Paris on June 15, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 170 with In response to a new Canadian law requiring payments to news organizations, Google said it will remove links to Canadian news sources from Google Search and Google News for users who ..
reader comments 41 with A YouTube scammer conspiring to run what Billboard described as possibly the largest music royalty scam in history, Jose Teran was recently sentenced by the US government to 70 months in prison. He was hit with a “significant sentence,” US attorney for the District of Arizona, Gary Restaino, wrote in the ..
Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina Khan testifies during a House subcommittee hearing on the agency’s fiscal 2024 budget on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Getty Images | Tom Williams reader comments 83 with The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to file a major antitrust lawsuit accusing Amazon of “leverag[ing] its power to reward online merchants that ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 65 with Apple has joined the growing number of organizations opposed to the UK’s pending Online Safety Bill, saying the proposed law threatens the end-to-end encryption that protects private messages. “End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats,” Apple said ..
reader comments 75 with Yesterday, the US Supreme Court decided that a lower court’s logic was flawed when it convicted a Colorado man, Billy Raymond Counterman, for stalking. Counterman had sent hundreds of online messages—some of which the lower court ruled that a reasonable person would consider threatening—to a local musician, Coles Whalen, whom he’d ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 69 with A Tesla vehicle being operated on Autopilot mode crashed into a stopped truck that was providing traffic control for a highway lane closure on Friday night, according to Pennsylvania State Police. David Clough, 18, was behind the wheel of a 2016 Tesla while traveling eastbound on I-76 ..
reader comments 66 with Since the earliest days of Twitter, the easiest way to find out more about an account was to look beyond its tweets and dig deeper into who follows that account and who that account is following. Now, users are discovering that Twitter seems to either be glitching or intentionally limiting access ..
Getty Images | style-photography reader comments 142 with A federal judge tossed a lawsuit and issued a $5,000 fine to the plaintiff’s lawyers after they used ChatGPT to research court filings that cited six fake cases invented by the artificial intelligence tool made by OpenAI. Lawyers Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca of the firm Levidow, ..
