reader comments 90 The Biden administration will ban all sales of Kaspersky antivirus software in the US starting in July, according to reporting from Reuters and a filing from the US Department of Commerce (PDF). The US believes that security software made by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab represents a national security risk, and that the Russian ..
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Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 175 Pornhub will soon be blocked in five more states as the adult site continues to fight what it considers privacy-infringing age-verification laws that require Internet users to provide an ID to access pornography. On July 1, according to a blog post on the adult site announcing the impending ..
reader comments 73 Meta got hit Tuesday with a lawsuit alleging that the company knowingly overlooks sexist treatment of female employees. That includes an apparent practice of hiring and promoting less qualified men to roles over more qualified female applicants. The complaint was filed in a US district court in New York by Jeffrey Smith, ..
reader comments 39 AT&T is imposing $10 and $20 monthly price hikes on users of older unlimited wireless plans starting in August 2024, the company announced. The single-line price of these 10 “retired” plans will increase by $10 per month, while customers with multiple lines on a plan will be hit with a total monthly ..
reader comments 170 Elon Musk is still frantically pushing to launch X payment services in the US by the end of 2024, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Launching payment services is arguably one of the reasons why Musk paid so much to acquire Twitter in 2022. His rebranding of the social platform into X revives a former ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 59 T-Mobile has agreed to change its advertising for the “Price Lock” guarantee that doesn’t actually lock in a customer’s price, but continues to defend the offer. T-Mobile users expressed their displeasure about being hit with up to $5 per-line price hikes on plans that seemed to have ..
reader comments 63 Apple has abruptly discontinued its “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) service, Apple Pay Later, which turned Apple into a money lender when it launched last March in the US and became widely available in October. The service previously allowed users to split the cost of purchases of up to $1,000 into four ..
reader comments 144 Adobe prioritized profits while spending years ignoring numerous complaints from users struggling to cancel costly subscriptions without incurring hefty hidden fees, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged in a lawsuit Monday. According to the FTC, Adobe knew that canceling subscriptions was hard but determined that it would hurt revenue to make ..
reader comments 103 US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to put a warning label on social media platforms, alerting young users of potential mental health harms. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” Murthy wrote ..
reader comments 84 An Indiana cop has resigned after it was revealed that he frequently used Clearview AI facial recognition technology to track down social media users not linked to any crimes. According to a press release from the Evansville Police Department, this was a clear “misuse” of Clearview AI’s controversial face scan tech, which ..
