Getty Images reader comments 45 with 38 posters participating Share this story TikTok will be gone from app stores tomorrow morning unless a federal judge acts to block the Trump administration’s ban on the app before midnight tonight. Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court for DC said today that he will determine whether ..
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reader comments 91 with 78 posters participating Share this story The FBI is intensifying its worldwide search for Michael James Pratt, the New Zealand-born pornographer who created the controversial GirlsDoPorn website while living in the San Diego area. This week the FBI announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Nearly two dozen ..
Enlarge / Google’s corporate headquarters. reader comments 42 with 31 posters participating Share this story Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said today it has settled a set of shareholder lawsuits related to the company’s handling of sexual harassment claims. Alphabet will commit $310 million to corporate diversity programs over the next decade, and the company agreed ..
reader comments 114 with 81 posters participating, including story author Share this story Facebook has temporarily shamed Apple out of taking a 30 percent cut of paid online events organized by small businesses and hosted on Facebook—things like cooking classes, workout sessions, and happy hours. Demand for these kinds of online events has soared during the ..
Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating Share this story Fortune 500 companies aren’t the only ones flocking to cloud services like Microsoft Azure. Increasingly, hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are also hosting their tools in the cloud, and that’s keeping people ..
Enlarge / A stand of TikTok (Douyin) at The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019, in Hangzhou, China. reader comments 78 with 55 posters participating Share this story A federal judge today gave the Trump administration until Friday to either defend its planned ban of short-form-video app TikTok in court or ..
reader comments 227 with 127 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring that all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state from 2035 be zero-emissions vehicles. Additionally, all drayage trucks—the ones that move containers around at places like the Port of ..
reader comments 103 with 67 posters participating Share this story The Department of Justice today dropped a proposed “recalibration” of one of the most important laws governing the US Internet into Congress’ lap and urged legislators to act to remove a liability protection on which nearly every website and app currently relies. Attorney General Bill ..
Enlarge / T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert speaks during a keynote at CES 2020 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. reader comments 43 with 37 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert yesterday fired back at AT&T and Verizon, saying the carriers’ complaints about T-Mobile obtaining more spectrum licenses show that ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story When state Senator Bob Hertzberg learned that an ambitious privacy initiative had gotten enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in California, he knew he had to act quickly. “My objective,” he says, “was to get the damn thing off ..
