Google settles $5bn lawsuit for ‘private mode’ tracking

Updated Jan. 8, 2024 6:46 pm ET Unity Software plans to lay off about 25% of its workforce as the company works to recover from a major dust-up with customers last fall. The company will let go about 1,800 employees, according to a securities filing on Monday. The cuts come after Unity laid off more…

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Xfinity hack affects nearly 36 million customers Xfinity hack affects nearly 36 million customers 00:32 A security breach at Comcast-owned Xfinity has exposed the personal data of nearly all the internet provider’s customers, including account usernames, passwords and answers to their security questions.  Comcast said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office that the hack affected…

The US securities regulator on Wednesday approved the first US-listed exchange traded funds to track bitcoin, its Chair Gary Gensler said, in a watershed for the world’s largest cryptocurrency and the broader crypto industry. The agency approved applications, including from BlackRock, Ark Investments, 21Shares, Fidelity, Invesco, and VanEck, among others, according to a notice on its…

“It’s a big relief that Elon Musk is standing up for free speech and removing censorship,” Anil Murty, a cofounder of SIFF, told BuzzFeed News. (He declined to provide evidence that the group’s tweets were shadowbanned before Musk bought Twitter.) Musk, who has fired over 70% of the company’s employees (including content moderators) since he…

A US labour agency says the employees sent an open letter to SpaceX executives, detailing workplace concerns.