Investment bank says it lost millions because of tweets by Elon Musk that he might take electric carmaker private JPMorgan has sued Tesla for $162.2m, accusing Elon Musk’s electric car company of “flagrantly” breaching a 2014 contract relating to stock trading options that Tesla sold to the bank. The options, or warrants, give the holder …
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Ohio attorney general says Facebook ‘was creating misery and divisiveness for profit’ Filing suit in response to whistleblower allegations which have rocked Facebook, the attorney general of Ohio, Dave Yost, accused the social media company of “creating misery and divisiveness for profit”. Yost sued Meta – as Facebook was recently renamed – after revelations from …
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Toronto-based researchers say new evidence suggests Candiru’s software used to target critics of autocratic regimes Researchers have found new evidence that suggests spyware made by an Israeli company that was recently blacklisted in the US has been used to target critics of Saudi Arabia and other autocratic regimes, including some readers of a London-based news …
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PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series X/S; Frontier DevelopmentsThough there are moments of bloody mayhem, the focus in this beautiful game is on wondrous natural history Like its hulking, tourist-gulping attractions, Jurassic World Evolution 2 has both a silly name and DNA that has been stitched together from several different animals to create something improbably beautiful. …
Two decades on, developers for its original launch talk about creating games for Microsoft’s debut console Twenty years since the launch of the original Xbox, its manufacturer Microsoft remains the new kid on the block: no new competitor has entered the home games console field since. Before 2001, Sega and Nintendo were the main competitors …
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Cindy Warner saw a promising career at the cloud computing company. What she found, she says, was ‘toxic’ When Cindy Warner joined Amazon Web Services in February 2020, she saw it as an opportunity to increase diversity and reshape the company’s strategy. She recalls how AWS “aggressively” recruited her, offering a quick path to higher …
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Parent company Meta denies data being used to target young users with ads based on their browsing activity Facebook and Instagram are gathering data from under-18s by using software that tracks users’ web browsing activity, according to research. The platforms’ parent company had announced in July that it would allow advertisers to target young users …
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Doctors have been surprised to see young adults developing tics and seizures that usually start in childhood. Social media has been blamed, but the reality is more complicated Michelle Wacek was a TikTok fan years ago, back when the video-sharing app was called Musical.ly. “I went on it for a laugh,” she says. “And then …
In a landmark US judgment, California official says the company failed to ‘adequately notify’ employees and local health agencies Amazon has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine and be monitored by California officials after the state’s attorney general said the company failed to “adequately notify” workers and health authorities about new Covid-19 cases. Amazon employs …
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Posters for unregulated meme coin in UK capital prompt calls for action Transport for London (TfL) has been urged to ban adverts for unregulated financial products after it ran a three-week poster campaign for a crypto token funded by an anonymous group. Posters for Floki, a so-called meme coin named after a dog owned by …
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