Meta Alerts 50k Users On Being Targeted By ‘Surveillance-For-Hire’ Entities
Meta has alerted around 50,000 users that their accounts were spied on by commercial 'surveillance-for-hire' schemes around the globe.
Meta Brings Signal Language Interpreters For Portal Video Calls
Meta has added video relay services (VRS) to its Portal video calling devices, to bring English or Spanish sign language interpreters into video conversations.
France Orders Clearview AI To Delete Facial Recognition Data
rance's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered controversial facial recognition start-up Clearview AI that has collected 10 billion images worldwide to stop using data from people based in the country.
Snap Launches Standalone ‘Story Studio’ Video Editing App
Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, has launched a new standalone video editing app 'Story Studio' for iPhone users in the US, the UK, and Canada.
Virginia Tax Preparer Sentenced To Prison For False Returns
A Virginia man was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for preparing false tax returns on behalf of clients, theft of government funds, and failing to file his own federal income tax returns.
Amazon Web Services Launches Region In Indonesia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region.
Twitter Adds Automatically Generated Captions For All Videos
The Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has started rolling out automatic captions for videos.
6 More Women Sue Tesla For Rampant Sexual Harassment
A Washington Post report said that six more women who work at Tesla's Fremont, California-based factory and service center have filed lawsuits against the company.
Instagram Hits 2 Billion Users But Won’t Disclose It To The World
Meta-owned American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram has reportedly hit two billion monthly active users, but the photo-sharing platform may not officially disclose these figures as it faces intense scrutiny over its alleged role in damaging the mental health of kids and...
Google To Stop Salaries And Eventually Fire Unvaccinated Employees
Tech giant Google has told its employees that they will lose their salaries and eventually be fired if they fail to fully vaccinate themselves and follow Covid-19 rules as mandated by the US administration.
Report Links Huawei To China’s Domestic Spying In Xinjiang
Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei has reportedly been linked to domestic spying in the Xinjiang region while building technology for labour and re-education camps as well as surveillance systems in the western Chinese region largely populated by Uyghur Muslims.
This Man Accidentally Sold A $300k ‘Bored Ape’ NFT For $3k
The 'Bored App Yacht Club' NFT was bought instantaneously by a bot on the trading platform.
Man Pleads Guilty Sexual Assault Of Child In Grenada
A New York man pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of New York to sexually assaulting a five-year-old child abroad.
Elon Musk Chosen As Time’s Person Of 2021
Billionaire Elon Musk has been chosen as the "Time's person of the year".
Apple Releases iOS 15.2 With Range Of New Features
Tech giant Apple has started rolling out an iOS 15.2 update with new features and fixes as the first major update to iPhone software since iOS 15.1 in October.
People Lost Nearly $148 Million To Gift Card Scams This Year : FTC
A new Federal Trade Commission data spotlight shows that in the first nine months of 2021, consumers reported losing $148 million in scams where gift cards were used as the form of payment. That amount is more than was reported in all of 2020.
Western Digital Launches SSD For Content Creators
Storage solutions major Western Digital (WD) on Monday launched a new consumer solid-state drive (SSD) product 'WD Blue SN570 NVMe' for the growing community of creators around the world.
Tesla Hit With One Other Sexual Harassment Lawsuit In US
A Tesla employee filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the electric-carmaker of retaliation and failing to prevent "a pattern of continuous and pervasive" sexual harassment at its Fremont factory.
Microsoft Fixes Teams Bug That Prevented 911 Calls On Android
Microsoft has fixed a Teams bug that led to failed 911 calls on devices using Android 10 or later, media reports say.
Amazon Says Overwhelmed Network Devices Triggered Outage
In a post on the AWS website, the company explains that an automated process caused the outage, which began around 10:30 AM ET in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) region.
