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Tesla Says Data Breach Impacting 75,000 Employees Was An Insider Job

Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees, TechCrunch reported. Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in a data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general that an investigation had found that two former employees leaked more than 75,000 individuals’ personal information to a foreign

A Glitch Temporarily Wiped Out X Images And Links

Since Friday, users of X, formerly Twitter, started noticing that many images posted on the platform between 2011 and 2014 were no longer accessible, according to various media reports, Insider reported. The glitch resulted in some of the most viral moments in internet history becoming inaccessible. It also seemed to affect links posted in the same three-year period - some

Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011 – 2014

Twitter, the social media company officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014. Links that used Twitter’s native shortening service are also broken, Forbes reported. According to Forbes, its not immediately clear if this was an intentional act or an error, but whatever’s happening is causing concern among

Twitch Will Let You Ban Users From Your Streams

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with, TechCrunch reported. According to TechCrunch, in Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes its monthly product update show, the company announced that it would soon let streamers block banned users from watching

Musk Says X’s ‘Block’ Feature Is Going Away

Part of the X roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell, TechCrunch reported. The one thing we can say for sure is that X’s owner responded to a post on the platform (on August 18) foreshadowing the potential removal of the block feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’,

Google Announces The New Transparency Report

David Graff, VP, Trust & Safety, posted an announcement: Today, we’re announcing the Transparency Center, a central hub for quickly and easily learning more about Google’s product policies. From the blog post: Billions of people turn to Google every day for access to trustworthy information and content, and we take this responsibility seriously. Our terms of service, product policies, developer policies,

The Xbox 360 Will Close July 2024

Dave McCarthy, CVP Xbox Player Services posted that the Xbox 360 store will close July 2024, but you can keep playing your favorite games. Here is part of the blog post: This November will mark 18 years since Xbox 360 launched. It was a generation-defining console that invited many to jump into gaming for the first time and connect with