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Video game company faces shareholder rebellion after workers protest the response to sexual misconduct allegations The embattled boss of video game company Activision Blizzard is facing a shareholder rebellion one day after employees staged a walkout to protest the company’s response to sexual misconduct allegations at the firm. “In contrast to past company statements, CEO …

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Advertising Standards Authority receives complaints about ads for meme coin named after Elon Musk’s dog The UK advertising watchdog has launched an investigation into a London bus and underground ad campaign for Floki Inu, a meme coin named after a dog owned by Elon Musk, as pressure rises to ban cryptocurrency marketing on public transport …

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Company blames the move, which will start on 19 January, on the cost of processing payments Amazon has told customers that it plans to stop accepting payments made with UK-issued Visa credit cards in January. In an email to users of the site, it blamed the cost of processing the payments, telling them: “Starting 19 …

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PC, Xbox, PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch; Rockstar Games/Grove Street Games/Take-Two InteractiveThese remasters feel less stable than the glitchy originals, with a lack of attention to detail that undermines the games’ character Given the extreme complexity of the art form, remasters of decades-old games can be … variable. But when a publisher applies the label “definitive …

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Voyager, which pitches its tech to police, has suggested indicators such as Instagram usernames that show Arab pride can signal inclination towards extremism Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying What do your Facebook posts, who you follow on Instagram and who you interact with the most on social media say …

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Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages Revealed: the software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit a crime The Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable …

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National Cyber Security Centre says cyberattacks at record high and urges businesses not to pay up The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it tackled a record number of cyber incidents in the UK over the last year, with ransomware attacks originating from Russia dominating its activities. The cybersecurity agency said it had helped deal …

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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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