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Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday said that it’s working with two leading banks in the U.K. on an information-sharing arrangement to help protect consumers from fraud. Meta said it was expanding its Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIPE) to enable U.K. banks to directly share information with the … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25651220/STK206_STK204_JD_VANCE_TIM_WALZ_A.jpg "The Springfield pet-eating hoax wasn’t Vance’s only immigration lie during debate")
The racist rumors about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio came up once again at tonight’s vice presidential debate between Governor Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH). “Governor Walz brought up the community of Springfield, and he’s very worried about the things that I’ve said,” Vance said after his opponent criticized him for saying he’s … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25651225/STK206_STK204_JD_VANCE_TIM_WALZ_D.jpg "JD Vance avoids January 6th questions by pivoting to Facebook ‘censorship’")
A question about whether Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) would challenge the 2024 election results quickly devolved into a fight about censorship and Big Tech during the debate with Democratic candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). “You have said you would not have certified the last presidential election, and would have asked the … Read more
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies slid on Tuesday night, with bitcoin dropping back to the $60,000 level after a shaky start to what is usually one of its strongest months. The flagship crypto was last off by nearly 4% at $60,972.62, according to Coin Metrics. Around 4:45 p.m. Eastern time, bitcoin slid … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23982579/acastro_STK466_01.jpg "Snap employees were well aware of the app’s child safety issues, newly unsealed complaint says")
“By November 2022, Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports of sextortion each month, while acknowledging that these reports ‘likely represent a small fraction of this abuse’ given the shame and other barriers to reporting,” says a newly unsealed version of the lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s attorney general against Snap. This less-redacted version of … Read more
Snapchat failed to act on “rampant” reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its platform, according to a newly unredacted complaint against the company filed by New Mexico’s attorney general. Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed the original complaint on Sept. 4, but internal messages and other details were heavily redacted. Tuesday’s … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20789727/acastro_200729_1777_nintendo_0001.jpg "Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune")
Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. “Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on … Read more
SEA GIRT, N.J. (AP) — The federal government gave a key approval Tuesday to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey, even as residents in the town where its power cable would come ashore worry it could go through underground toxic waste that’s still being cleaned up. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24020915/226270_IPHONE_14_REGULAR_PHO_akrales_0657.jpg "The next iPhone SE may lose the home button, add Face ID and Apple Intelligence")
That the new iPhone SE models may support Apple Intelligence says a lot about their performance — it takes a lot of RAM to run local AI features, for instance. They’re expected to look like the iPhone 14, doing away with the chunky top and bottom bezels and the home button; both are firsts for … Read more
(KRON) — Thousands of Verizon customers have been affected by a nationwide outage Monday. Some of those impacted users say their phones are stuck in SOS mode. What is SOS mode? SOS mode indicates that a device is having trouble connecting to the user’s cellular provider network, but it can make emergency calls through other … Read more
