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Child safety group says Meta ‘putting profits before protecting children’, as messaging app lowers age limit from 16

"For the first time in decades, U.S. leadership in space and space technology is being challenged."

At least Google still provides two other VPN services...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146

A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there's a little something different with the look of the website.

Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable says that all reviews on the platform will no longer be fully anonymous starting May 22nd and will now show members' profile pictures and first names.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new version of "Malware Next-Gen," now allowing the public to submit malware samples for analysis by CISA.

ISPs comply with FCC rule after protesting requirement to list all fees.

Founding CEO says former assistant plotted "coup d'état," hacked his accounts.

Meta said on Thursday that it is testing new features on Instagram intended to help safeguard young people from unwanted nudity or sextortion scams. This

The UK's competition watchdog, the CMA, has sounded a warning over Big Tech's grip on the advanced AI market, with CEO Sarah Cardell expressing "real concerns" over how the sector is developing.

The FTC is just so nasty to Andy Jassy!

Announcement arrives as Colorado's Senate hears a bill banning parts pairing.

Paramount Plus with Showtime is taking over.

And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.

Multiple links in the supply chain failed for years to identify an unfixed vulnerability.

Amazon.com's, Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million for violating its patent rights in data-storage technology, an Illinois federal jury said on Wednesday.

In November 2019, the US government’s National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), an influential body chaired by former Google CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt, warned that China was using artificial intelligence to “advance an autocratic agenda.”

Just two months earlier, Schmidt was also seeking potential personal connections to China’s AI industry on a visit to Beijing, newly disclosed emails reveal. Separately, tax filings show that a nonprofit private foundation overseen by Schmidt and his wife contributed to a fund that feeds into a private equity firm that has made investments in numerous Chinese tech firms, including those in AI.

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which until very recently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.

Researchers have demonstrated the "first native Spectre v2 exploit" for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors.

Google Axion-based VMs will be out in preview in the coming months.

With iMessage battle over, Beeper merges with Texts.com to offer more networks.

I guess being incarcerated isn’t dehumanizing enough. Being treated like barely sentient meat deserving of any abuse perpetrated by guards or other inmates just isn’t enough oppression,…

Russians buy from middlemen and "deliver SpaceX hardware to the front line."

LG patches four vulnerabilities that allow malicious hackers to commandeer TVs.