reader comments 43 with Talk about a fire sale. With limited interest in GIF platforms and UK regulators forcing a sale, Meta has decided to sell Giphy to Shutterstock for a mere $53 million. After purchasing it for $315 million in 2020 and subsequently being ordered to sell it by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority ..
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Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 65 with European and Irish regulators have ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay a fine of 1.2 billion euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with transfers of personal data to the United States. It’s the largest GDPR fine ever. Meta was also ordered to stop ..
reader comments 107 with China said US chipmaker Micron Technology’s products posed “serious network security risks” as it banned operators of key infrastructure from buying them, in its first big measure against an American semiconductor group. The Cyberspace Administration of China on Sunday announced that the company, which is the biggest US maker of memory ..
Enlarge / An iPhone undergoes repairs. reader comments 53 with Every time a new iPhone comes out, a team of technicians in the French city of Toulouse start to pull it apart. In the three years they’ve been doing this, they’ve found a device that’s gradually transforming into a fortress. Today’s iPhones are packed with ..
Enlarge / A flag on the fifth green during the first round of the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament at TPC Craig Ranch on May 11, 2023, in McKinney, Texas. Getty Images | Mike Mulholland reader comments 47 with AT&T and other entities are trying to block the SpaceX/T-Mobile plan to provide Starlink satellite service ..
Getty Images | Christopher Furlong reader comments 203 with Elon Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, yesterday sent a letter to Microsoft accusing the company of using the Twitter APIs in ways that violated Twitter policies. Spiro’s letter came about a month after Microsoft halted API use instead of paying new fees and Musk threatened to sue ..
reader comments 184 with Surprising no one, immediately after Montana became the first state to ban TikTok on Wednesday, five TikTokers in the state with thousands of followers banded together and sued to block the ban. The TikTokers argued that the ban is a huge overstep by the state because it’s “unconstitutional and preempted by ..
Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish. Getty Images | AntaresNS reader comments 48 with The Federal Communications Commission sided with Starlink in a battle against Dish Network today, rejecting a Dish proposal that could have degraded Internet service for Starlink satellite users. In a 4-0 vote, the FCC decided not to authorize high-powered terrestrial mobile ..
reader comments 67 with Today the United States Supreme Court quashed tech industry fears that the nation’s highest court might ruin the Internet by deciding that platforms should be held liable for recommending third-party content that has long been protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In a pair of rulings, the Supreme ..
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes (C), founder and former CEO of blood-testing and life sciences company Theranos, walks with her mother Noel Holmes and partner Billy Evans into the federal courthouse for her sentencing hearing on November 18, 2022, in San Jose, California. reader comments 163 with Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes had a rough Tuesday. The ..
