Tech giant ‘continued to collect and store a user’s location data’ even if users turned off their location history, according to suit Google will pay $93m to settle accusations of misleading consumers on how and when their location information was being tracked and stored, a considerable payout for the tech giant that following a years-long …
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Greater Manchester police becomes latest entity to fall victim to this kind of hack The Greater Manchester police force has become the latest entity to fall victim to a now well-established form of cyberattack: the ransomware hack. GMP said on Thursday a third-party supplier holding information on its employees had been breached. It is understood …
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In this week’s newsletter: The Guardian’s own pop culture podcast is back again every Thursday to break down the latest in entertainment. Plus: five of the best surprise hit podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Happiness Lab x Sesame StreetWidely available, episodes weekly from MondayIf The Happiness …
Live shows should allow for self-expression, catharsis and abandon. It’s the boorishness and selfishness that need to stop Earlier this week, Lucy May Walker, a singer-songwriter from Redditch, posted a series of modest proposals for behaviour at concerts under the title Gig Etiquette. The four subheadings for her guidelines were: 1. Don’t Talk During the …
In this week’s newsletter: Unconcerned with things like enemies or objectives, this experimental food game is chaotic yet oddly soothing • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here A shower of chopped onions fall into a bowl of broth, making little plinks on its surface. They are joined by thick ribbons …
The government is about to award a £480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don’t trust it, they’ll opt out – I know, because I felt I had to Last December, I had an abortion. Most unwanted pregnancies set a panic-timer ticking, but I was almost counting down …
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and others gathered for ‘one of the most important conversations of the year’ A delegation of top tech leaders including Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman convened in Washington on Wednesday for the first of nine meetings with US senators to discuss the rise …
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Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do Who or what is to blame for Elon Musk? Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search …
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Justice department takes on tech giant in court, seeking to prove it illegally used its power to maintain monopoly on internet search The court battle between the US justice department and Google has entered its second day, as the United States government seeks to prove that the tech behemoth illegally leveraged its power to maintain …
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Galina Timchenko, head of media outlet declared ‘undesirable’ by Moscow, targeted in February while living in Berlin An award-winning Russian journalist living in exile in Europe was hacked using Israeli spyware made by NSO Group, according to a joint investigation by the Citizen Lab and Access Now. Galina Timchenko was hacked on or around 23 …
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