DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Technology
The Justice Department and a group of eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers...
The Unknown Hedge Fund That Got $400 Million From Sam Bankman-Fried
Not long before FTX collapsed in November, its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, sent $400 million to an obscure cryptocurrency trading firm called Modulo Capital. The fledgling...
Emailing Your Doctor May Carry a Fee
To Nina McCollum, Cleveland Clinic’s decision to begin billing for some email correspondence between patients and doctors “was a slap in the face.” She has...
Elon Musk Says He Could Have Raised Funds to Take Tesla Private
Elon Musk said on Monday that he had not lied or misspoken about his plan to take Tesla off the stock market in 2018, testifying...
Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.
“This is a gift,” Mr. Pulliam said. “I don’t think that story is told. It’s always doom and gloom.” But for tech workers experiencing their...
Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs
Spotify, the audio streaming platform, is laying off 6 percent of its work force, or about 600 employees, joining a growing list of big tech...
Elon Musk Testifies That His Tweets Did Not Drive Tesla’s Stock Price
Elon Musk testified on Friday that he was aware that he posted important information on his Twitter account about Tesla, the electric car company he...
Elon’s Crumbling Empire and Generative A.I. Goes to Court
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Instagram and Facebook Should Update Nude Photo Rules, Meta Board Says
Content creators have long criticized Facebook and Instagram for their content moderation policies relating to photos that show partial nudity, arguing that their practices are...
Genesis, a Crypto Lending Firm, Files for Bankruptcy
The cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Holdco filed for bankruptcy late on Thursday, the latest crypto company to do so after the collapse of FTX, the...
T-Mobile Says Hacker Got Data From 37 Million Customer Accounts
T-Mobile said on Thursday that a hacker had collected data, including names, birth dates and phone numbers, from 37 million customer accounts, the company’s second...
Here’s How to Achieve Tech Nirvana in 2023
Social media and new communication platforms may have been lifelines during the pandemic, but have they gobbled up too much of your time? Do you...
How the Netherlands Is Taming Big Tech
In 2021, privacy consultants working for two Dutch universities issued a critical report card on Google’s education apps, a set of classroom tools like Google...
Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech
For years, giant social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have operated under two crucial tenets. The first is that the platforms have the power...