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UK Regulator Fines Reddit £14.47m Over Use Of Children’s Personal Data

Reddit has been fined £14.47 million by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office after the regulator said the platform unlawfully processed children’s personal information and failed to properly verify the age…

Discord Delays Global Age Verification Rollout After User Backlash

Discord has postponed plans to begin verifying the age of all users in March after weeks of criticism from its community, with the company now saying the rollout will move…

Google Apologizes For Offensive Baftas News Alert After Safety System Failure

Google has apologized after sending a news alert about this year’s Bafta awards that included language directing users to read further using a racial slur, an incident the company said…

Paramount Raises Bid For Warner Bros Discovery As Netflix Deal Faces Review

Paramount Skydance has increased its offer to buy Warner Bros Discovery, prompting the company to reconsider its existing agreement with Netflix and opening the door to further negotiations between the…

National PTA Ends Funding Relationship With Meta As Child Safety Trials Continue

The National Parent Teacher Association has decided not to seek renewed funding from Meta for 2026, ending a relationship that began in 2017, as the social media company faces court…

Spanish Police Arrest Man Over €0.01 Hotel Booking Fraud

Spanish police have arrested a 20-year-old man in Madrid after alleging he manipulated the payment system of a travel and hotel booking website to reserve luxury rooms for €0.01 per…

Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security In Limited Enterprise Preview

Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Security, an AI-powered service built into Claude Code that scans software codebases for vulnerabilities and recommends fixes, with the company rolling out the capability in…

Mastercard And Cloudflare Partner To Offer Cyber Defense Tools For Smaller Organizations

Mastercard and Cloudflare said they have formed a partnership to deliver cyber defense solutions aimed at small businesses, critical infrastructure operators, and government organizations, according to a joint press statement…

Apple Plans Three-Day Announcement Push Ahead Of March 4 Press Event

Apple has invited the tech press to a “special Apple experience” on March 4, and reporting suggests the company will spread its product news across several days rather than reveal…

India’s Budget Fashion Chains Gain Ground As Shoppers Shift From Bazaars To Branded Stores

At a three-storey Reliance Trends outlet in Sangli in western India, a geriatric care worker named Alka browses racks of Indian ethnic-wear kurtas in bright colors while looking for a…

U.S. Court Sentences Ukrainian Man To Five Years Over North Korean IT Worker Scheme

A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his role in an identity theft operation that enabled North Korean workers to obtain fraudulent…

Judge Rejects Tesla Bid To Overturn $243 Million Autopilot Verdict

A federal judge has denied Tesla’s request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict that found the automaker partially responsible for a fatal 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot…

Lucid Motors To Cut 12% Of Staff As Company Pushes Toward Profitability

Lucid Motors is cutting 12% of its workforce as it works to reduce costs and improve efficiency while preparing new vehicle launches and expanding production, according to an internal memo…

OpenAI Reviewed Shooter’s Chats Before Tumbler Ridge Attack And Did Not Alert Police

An 18-year-old accused of killing eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that triggered internal safety tools, according to reporting, but the…

Microsoft Names Asha Sharma To Lead Gaming As Phil Spencer And Sarah Bond Exit

Microsoft announced a leadership change in its gaming division on Friday, with Microsoft Gaming Chief Executive Officer Phil Spencer leaving the company and Xbox President Sarah Bond also departing, as…

Wikipedia Moves To Remove Archive.today Links Over Abuse And Reliability Concerns

Wikipedia editors have agreed to remove all links to Archive.today and its related domains after concluding that the service should no longer be used as a citation source, a decision…

Altman Pushes Back On Claims About AI Water Use And Focuses On Energy Costs

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said this week that claims about AI’s water consumption are not accurate and argued that the more relevant concern is the total energy used…

School Admissions Site Ravenna Hub Fixes Flaw That Exposed Student And Parent Data

A student admissions platform used by families to apply to schools has fixed a security flaw that allowed any logged-in user to access the personal information of other families and…

OpenAI Nears Funding Deal Above $100 Billion At Valuation That Could Top $850 Billion

OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round of more than $100 billion at a valuation that could exceed $850 billion, according to Bloomberg, as the company continues to spend…

Zuckerberg Testifies In Trial Over Claims Social Media Harms Teens And Kids

Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg testified on Wednesday in a trial that seeks to determine whether the company’s social media apps are addictive and harmful to teenagers and children,…