2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (332+ words) An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service. Meta has made so called "end-to-end" encryption a central part of WhatsApp's feature…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (406+ words) Bloom Energy, a California-based company that provides onsite power generation for electricity-guzzling data centers, also found that the grid demand driven by data centers in Texas is expected to exceed 40 gigawatts by 2028. The report is based on a survey of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (149+ words) Verizon Communications Inc. is suffering a widespread service outage, with thousands of users reporting lack of cell service on Wednesday afternoon. Verizon, the largest US wireless provider, said it was aware of the issue and trying to resolve the problem....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (595+ words) Authorities are investigating damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland early Wednesday that occurred between the capitals of Finland and Estonia. Finnish authorities seized and inspected the vessel suspected to have caused the damage, the country's…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (514+ words) Message board website Reddit on Friday filed a lawsuit in Australia's highest court seeking to overturn the country's social media ban for children, calling it an intrusion on free political discourse and setting the stage for a protracted legal battle....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (594+ words) Massachusetts" highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state"s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users. The lawsuit, filed in 2024 by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, alleges that Meta…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (225+ words) A popular mobile video game maker must pay $1.4 million for violations of California's privacy act. California Attorney General Rob Bonta settled with Jam City Inc. to resolve allegations that the mobile app gaming firm violated the California Consumer Privacy Act…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (497+ words) A worldwide outage at the network of cybersecurity firm Cloudflare Inc. has been resolved after several hours of disruption on Tuesday. The outage had taken down the websites for everything from the chief US energy regulator, ChatGPT, the New Jersey…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (686+ words) Multiple subsea internet cables slated to run through the Red Sea are yet to complete as planned, as political tensions and heightened security threats have made the route more dangerous and complicated for commercial vessels. Meta Platforms Inc.s 2020 plans…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (155+ words) Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, users of Gmail, Chat and Meet were given the…...