Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ personal information. The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in…
Facebook Parent Meta Agrees to Settle Cambridge Analytica Scandal Case for $725 Million
LastPass Confirm Hackers Stole Customer Passwords in Recent Admission
December 23, 2022
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The data breach which hit password manager LastPass this August was more serious than earlier perceived, and involved customer passwords being stolen, the company admitted in a latest update on the situation. In the August hack, the company claimed that a threat actor gained internal access to its systems for a period of four days,…
US Probing Automated Driving System Use in 2 Tesla Crashes
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency said Thursday it will send teams to investigate two November crashes in California and Ohio involving Teslas that may have been operating on automated driving systems. The probes bring to 35 the number of crashes investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) since 2016 in which either…
California Earthquake Puts Early Warning System to the Test
December 22, 2022
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—As sensors picked up the first signs of a strong earthquake jolting the Northern California coast, an alert was blasted to 3 million smartphone users telling them to “drop, cover, hold on.” It was hailed as the biggest test yet of the warning system since its public launch. But the people most rattled by…
3 Chinese Nationals Charged for Pilfering Data From Spotify, Netflix, and Optus
Three Adelaide-based Chinese men have been charged for illegally obtaining the personal details of Spotify, Netflix, and Foxtel customers by using data leaked from Australian telecommunications giant Optus. Sheng Li, 24, on Dec. 20 faced 76 charges of money laundering and the federal charge of conspiracy, although he was initially charged with using other people’s…
Scientists Develop Gelatinous Robots to Crawl Through Human Body to Deliver Medical Payloads or Diagnose Illnesses
Scientists have developed miniature gelatinous robots that can crawl through the human body to deliver medicine or diagnose illnesses. The “gelbot” is powered by little more than temperature changes, and its innovative design, which resembles an inchworm, is one of the most promising concepts in the field of soft robotics, according to Jill Rosen of John Hopkins University….
Apple Fined 1 Million Euros by Paris Court Over App Store Practices
PARIS—The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company’s App Store, the court ruling showed. The ruling, seen by Reuters, said there was no need to order Apple, which has a market value…
Australians Break Record for Fastest Electric Car in the World
December 21, 2022
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An Australian solar-powered car weighing a quarter that of a Tesla has provisionally broken the record for the fastest electric vehicle (EV) in the world. Built from scratch by a group of 45 engineering students, the car travelled at an average speed of nearly 85 kilometres per hour and set the “unofficial” team record for…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Takes Witness Stand in FTC Case
SAN JOSE, California—Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, took the witness stand Tuesday in a trial over U.S. antitrust regulators’ effort to stop the tech giant from buying a virtual reality startup called Within Unlimited. At issue is whether Meta’s acquisition of the small company that makes a VR fitness app called…
Scammers Steal Huge Food Shipments Using Online Technique Agencies Describe as ‘Most Financially Damaging’
Multiple federal agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) warning the food and agriculture sector about incidents of criminal actors using business email compromise (BEC) tactics to steal food shipments. The advisory was issued on Dec. 15 by the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S….
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