Tech

• Meta slapped with $600M lawsuit from Spanish media outlets over digital privacy

  5-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 41

  Meta allegedly ignored European rules requiring users to provide consent before their personal can be used for digital advertising.

• Ex-Harvard scholar claims she was ousted for pointing out Facebook’s ‘digital harms’

  5-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 20

  Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropic organization pledged $500 million to Harvard. Joan Donovan claims she was fired after criticizing Facebook.

• Elon Musk mocks Paris Hilton cookware ads after her company suspends X deal: ‘Wasn’t super convincing’

  5-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 22

  Hilton’s 11:11 Media was one of several major companies, including IBM and Apple, that have pulled ad campaigns from X in recent weeks.

• Amazon bypasses Jeff Bezos, asks Elon Musk’s SpaceX to help launch satellites

  5-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 24

  Amazon, which vowed in 2019 to invest $10 billion into the project, will put an unspecified number of Kuiper satellites on three Falcon 9 rockets...

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• Spanish newspaper association files multimillion-euro suit against Meta over advertising practices

  4-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 29

  A Spanish association representing more than 80 newspapers has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta accusing it of unfair competition in...

• Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year

  4-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 34

  Spotify says it's axing 17% of its global workforce, the music streaming service's third round of layoffs this year as it moves to slash costs...

• Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year

  4-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 30

  Spotify says it's axing 17% of its global workforce, the music streaming service's third round of layoffs this year as it moves to slash costs...

• Google delays launch of conversational AI bot ‘Gemini’ to January: report

  4-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 22

  Google had planned to roll out Gemini at a series of debut events slated to take place later this month in New York, Washington DC and California.

• Commerce secretary says more money needed to block AI chip exports to China

  4-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 42

  The U.S. government must dramatically increase funding aimed at blocking sensitive artificial intelligence microchip tech exports to China,...

• Adversaries wage space race across tense, divided Korean Peninsula

  4-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 25

  North Korea said Sunday that its new Malligyong-1 spy satellite had commenced official operations, after warning the previous day that any U.S....

• How to avoid these 5 popular gift card scams this holiday season

  4-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 32

  Gift cards are a very popular and convenient way to give a gift this holiday season to your friends or family, but they can also be a target for...

• Babylon Bee, Daily Wire fight woke corporate boycott of X by boosting advertising

  3-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 29

  Conservative media outlets may not have Disney's marketing budget, but they're increasing their ad buys on X in a show of support for owner Elon...