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Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat, TechCrunch reported. The social network is late to allow links in the profiles of creators. Until now, it only allowed brands and Snap Stars - the biggest creators who are part of a
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers’ mobile devices in the state, in what would be the first-in-the-nation effort to rein in a billion-dollar industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Massachusetts legislature held a hearing last month on a bill called the
Sega of America workers voted “yes” to officially form a union. The National Labor Relations Board counted the group’s mailed-in votes on Monday, with the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega, or AEGIS, winning the vote, Polygon reported. According to Polygon, one hundred and seventeen votes were counted, 91 votes for the union and 26 votes against. (Several votes were challenged
Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand - and reverses its controversial API price hikes, TechCrunch reported. According to TechCrunch, in a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a
Earlier this month, a group known as Anonymous Sudan took credit for a service outage that disrupted access to Outlook, OneDrive and a handful of other Microsoft online services, Engadget reported. After initially sharing little information about the incident, the company confirmed late Friday had been the target of a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. Microsoft posted information titled: “Microsoft
More victims have emerged of a Russian-speaking cybercrime group whose recent spree includes stealing information from several federal U.S. agencies, NBC News reported. The BBC, Shell, Johns Hopkins Health System, British Airways, the state of Illinois, and the department of motor vehicles of Oregon and Louisiana all appear to have had their files stolen, according to various news releases. The
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission posted a press release titled: “FTC Says Genetic Testing Company 1Health Failed to Protect Privacy and Security of DNA Data and Unfairly Changed Its Privacy Policy”. From the press release: The Federal Trade Commission charged that the genetic testing firm 1Health.io left sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived consumers about their ability to get