Biden officials can’t talk to social media companies as much as they used to.
A federal judge in the US has put limits on how much the Biden administration can talk to social media companies about moderating their material. Judge Terry Doughty said on Tuesday in a 155-page decision that White House officials and…
Customers of Virgin Media are concerned that their emails have been permanently deleted.
According to Virgin Media, all subscribers can now send and receive emails again, but some cannot view messages from before the outage. One user, a retired IT professional, told the BBC that he wasn’t “100% certain these emails will ever…
Elon Musk announced that Twitter will temporarily limit the number of tweets that users may see.
Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, has announced a temporary limit on the number of tweets users can read in a day. Mr Musk stated in a tweet that unverified accounts are now limited to reading 1,000 messages every day. The number…
Google will remove local news links in Canada according to the Online News Act.
Last Monday, Canada’s parliament passed the Online News Act, which requires platforms such as Google and Meta’s Facebook to negotiate contracts with news publishers. Google’s action comes after Meta stated that it will likewise limit news content for Canadian customers….
In the VW emissions scam, former Audi boss Stadler won’t go to jail.
Rupert Stadler, the former CEO of Audi, has been given a fine and a 21-month suspended sentence for fraud and carelessness in the 2015 diesel emissions controversy. In Dieselgate, he is the first top boss to be tried and found…
Police warn Android users about the 999 call button
The police in the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is causing “silent” 999 calls to be made by accident. When an Emergency SOS button is hit over and over, the phone rings. Chiefs of…
Clop, a hacker gang, discloses victim names on the dark web.
A cyber crime group hoarding stolen data has exposed the identities and firm details of dozens of victims of a global mega attack. Clop, a hacker organization, began uploading company names to its darknet website on Wednesday. Twenty-six organizations, including…
Reddit blackout: Subreddits will be made private on Monday.
Thousands of Reddit communities will be unavailable on Monday in protest of the site’s management. Reddit is imposing controversial fees on makers of third-party apps used to navigate the social media platform. However, this has sparked a backlash, with moderators…
Meta, the owner of Facebook, intends to launch a Twitter competitor.
According to the BBC, Meta has showed staff designs for a text-based social network aimed to compete with Twitter. It may allow users to follow accounts they currently follow on Meta’s image-sharing program, Instagram. It may also help them to…
Chinese censors target Bluetooth and AirDrop
China aims to impose restrictions on the usage of mobile file-sharing apps like AirDrop and Bluetooth in an effort to strengthen its censorship apparatus. A month-long public consultation on the ideas will begin on Tuesday, according to the national internet…
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