reader comments 56 with 42 posters participating Share this story In August, we wrote about a group of 22 models who sued the owners of the porn site GirlsDoPorn for fraud. The models say the company told them that pornographic videos of them would only be distributed on DVDs outside the United States. Instead, the ..
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Enlarge / A Facebook logo in front of an EU flag in this photo illustration on November 20, 2017. reader comments 130 with 82 posters participating Share this story Europe’s highest court issued a controversial ruling Thursday with the potential to have staggeringly large implications worldwide. The Court of Justice of the European Union held ..
Enlarge / A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. reader comments 87 with 69 posters participating Share this story With only 13 months left to go in the seemingly interminable 2020 US election season, senators are calling on Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, and other social networks to do something sooner, ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with his oversized coffee mug in November 2017. reader comments 157 with 98 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has mostly defeated net neutrality supporters in court even though judges expressed skepticism about Chairman Ajit Pai’s justification for repealing net neutrality rules. One ..
reader comments 120 with 55 posters participating Share this story Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission this summer smashed records: the FTC had never before fined any company such a hefty amount. But even though critics immediately lambasted the deal as a comparative slap on the wrist for Facebook, which earned about ..
reader comments 142 with 77 posters participating Share this story When you visit a new website, your computer probably submits a request to the domain name system (DNS) to translate the domain name (like arstechnica.com) to an IP address. Currently, most DNS queries are unencrypted, which raises privacy and security concerns. Google and Mozilla are trying ..
Enlarge / This is Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you…from ransomware. reader comments 87 with 77 posters participating, including story author Share this story In a report to a committee of the Baltimore City Council last week, City Auditor Josh Pasch said that the city’s Information Technology department could not provide any documentation ..
Enlarge / Mississippi Rebels and Xavier Musketeers go head-to-head during the second round of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball on March 19, 2015, in Jacksonville, Florida. reader comments 105 with 65 posters participating Share this story California Governor Gavin Newsom today signed a bill into law allowing college athletes to get paid for endorsements, setting ..
reader comments 149 with 68 posters participating Share this story The two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and led to what is, so far, a six-month grounding of the jet, stemmed in part from Boeing’s failure to accurately anticipate how pilots would respond to a malfunctioning feature that pointed the jets toward the ..
Getty Images | Jacobo Zanella reader comments 79 with 51 posters participating Share this story A nonprofit organization that provides free online access to broadcast TV stations has accused TV networks of colluding to limit access to those channels. The nonprofit that runs Locast, the free TV service, made the allegations in an answer to ..
