• Ex-TikTok employees claim they were ordered to routinely send American user data to Beijing

    Under scrutiny, TikTok officials strongly maintained it mostly cut ties with owner. Former employees now say the company was not in fact independent of Beijing. The former TikTok staff said they were asked to send US user data to ByteDance. READ MORE:

  • POKT Network Welcomes Three New Gateways & Brings Open Data Access to Millions of End Users

    Georgetown, Cayman Islands, April 9th, 2024, Chainwire Developer DAO, Raid Guild, and Chainstack will bring their respective networks and distribution to POKT Network, providing more developers with read/write access to 60+ blockchains’ by building on top of POKT Network’s decentralized infrastructure POKT Network, the user-governed platform building a Universal RPC Base Layer, announced today the launch […]

  • FBI director Chris Wray insists controversial spy tool FISA keeps Americans SAFE as Republican critics grill him on 'abuses' of warrantless surveillance

    'Section 702 is indispensable in keeping Americans safe from a whole barrage of fast moving foreign threats,' Wray insisted. FISA Section 702 has been credited for helping intel officers thwart terror attacks on U.S. soil, but has also been prone to abuse with spying on U.S. citizens

  • Fairphone's Fairbuds feature user-accessible batteries

    Repairability and longevity are top of mind with these new earbuds.

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    Elatec Brings Employee Badge for Apple Wallet to Users

    Elatec today announced it is bringing employee badge in Apple Wallet to its customers, enabling an organization’s employees or tenants to unlock access to locations and devices with a simple tap of their

  • Report: 'Dirty Dozen' Companies Enabling Sexual Abuse

    The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has released their list of 12 major contributors to sexual abuse and exploitation. This "Dirty Dozen" in the group's annual report features several prominent corporations whose products and services are used each day by hundreds of millions of people, with many customers completely unaware that the companies are platforming sexual predators. Here is NCOSE's list for 2024: Apple "Apple's record is rotten when it comes to child protection. This Big...

  • Uber makes its safety tools easier to access and customize

    Plenty of women who use rideshare services regularly send details of their trips to loved ones and take other precautionary measures, especially at night. Now, Uber is putting all its safety tools in one place, making them easier to access and allowing users to customize them so that they'd automatically switch on. In the app's new safety preferences section, passengers can choose to schedule when its safety tools should automatically get activated, whether it's for every ride after 9PM, on the...

  • Julius AI Review – Is It the Right Data Analysis Tool for You?

    If you’re looking for an in-depth Julius AI review, my experience with it might help you decide if it’s right for you. So, recently, I’ve been testing various AI tools and I came across Julius AI. It’s been getting some buzz for being a bit of a jack-of-all-trades in the data analysis field. I’ve heard […]

  • Twitch is giving all users access to its discovery feed later this month

    Twitch has been testing a discovery feed for livestreams and Clips on mobile since last year, in hopes of giving users a new way to find new streamers to follow and, hence, spend more time on the platform. Now, the website has announced that it's rolling out the feature to all users later this month. The feed will first appear as a new tab in the mobile app and will allow viewers to switch between a scrollable feed for livestreams and another one for Clips. Like their names imply, the live feed...

  • Snapchat will now watermark users' AI-generated images

    Snapchat announces an ghostly addition to its generative AI transparency tools.

  • Google employees protest company’s work with Israeli government

    Google employees in two different offices protested the company’s work with the Israeli government on Tuesday, objecting to a billion-dollar contract it signed with the U.S. ally in 2021. The protestors organized sit-ins in two locations, one in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the other in one of New York City's offices. The sit-in Sunnyvale office was

  • Google will reduce some users access to California news sites

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