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The judge overseeing Twitter Inc.’s $44 billion lawsuit against Elon Musk has a no-nonsense reputation as well as the distinction of being one of the few jurists who has ever ordered a reluctant buyer to close a U.S. corporate merger, Reuters reported. According to Reuters, Kathaleen McCormick took over the role of chancellor or chief judge of the Court of
Facebook considers each user to have up to 5 profiles per account. It has never made sense why I could not have a Geek News Central profile and a New Media Show profile. It just makes so much more sense to keep things separated. Let's hope they move forward with this. Also, I want to encourage you to support the show in the value for value model. Donate to the show or become a sustaining insider if you find the content valuable.
Twitter’s accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test. Ten percent of users, who make up the test group, will be served reminders to add image descriptions to their photo uploads, TechCrunch reported. What is alt text? TechCrunch provided an explanation: Image descriptions, or alt text, are exactly what they sound like: descriptions of what appears in an image. Sometimes these
Amazon handed Ring video doorbell footage to police without owners’ permission at least 11 times so far this year - a figure that highlights the unfettered access the company is giving police to doorsteps across the country, Politico reported. On July 13, 2022, U.S. Senator Markey posted on his website “Senator Markey’s Probe Into Amazon Ring Reveals New Privacy Problems”.
Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) said it believes cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network is “deeply insolvent” and does not have assets and liquidity to honor its obligations to customers and other creditors, Reuters reported. According to Reuters: The crypto lender has been involved in an unregistered securities offering, selling cryptocurrency interest accounts to retail investors including investors in Vermont. Celsius
Microsoft posted on the Official Microsoft Blog a post titled: “Netflix names Microsoft as partner for new consumer subscription plan”. Part of it says: We’re thrilled to be named Netflix’s technology and sales partner to help power their first ad-supported subscription offering. At launch, consumers will have more options to access Netflix’s award-winning content. Marketers looking to Microsoft for their
Carl Pei (and a parrot) launched Nothing's Phone(1) today in London. Starting in a café, moving to a theatre and ending at the after party, it was a surprisingly brief run through of the new phone. The big thing is the glyph feature on the back. Glyph's will be familiar to anyone who has played Niantic's Ingress but simplistically it's
GameStop fired its top executive and other layoffs at Game Informer. An article on Game Informer, posted on July 8, 2022, stated that GameStop “which is in the process of pivoting its business around crypto” fired one of its top executives and laid off a number of Game Informer staff. In a filing with the US government, GameStop said it
Meta announced that, building on Meta’s AI research and advancements, they have developed the first model capable of automatically scanning hundreds of thousands of citations at once to check whether they truly support the corresponding claims. Volunteers double-check Wikipedia’s footnotes, but, as the site continues to grow, it’s challenging to keep pace with more than the 17,000 new articles added
Ahead of World Emoji Day (Sunday, July 17) Emojipedia reported that WhatsApp is getting more emojii. World Emoji Day is the annual celebration of emoji use across the world. Created and hosted by Emojipedia, the event is in its ninth year and is celebrated on July 17th each year. In addition, Emojipedia also stated that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has
Experian, according to KrebsonSecurity, has an unacceptable security risk for nearly every person's credit monitoring that could be easily solved with MFA and some changes in how new accounts are created. But now they have a big gaping security hole that is being exploited. Experian has had a bad run of late with security issues, and they need to get a handle on it now.
The Wall Street Journal reported Elon Musk is seeking to terminate his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter Inc., saying that the company hasn’t provided the necessary data and information he needs to assess the prevalence of fake or spam accounts, according to a regulatory filing Friday. As you may have guessed, the two sides do not see eye to
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