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Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. Among those no longer labeled was National Public Radio in the U.S., which announced last week that it would stop using

By Oliver Darcy, CNN BuzzFeed News, the Pulitzer Prize-winning digital news website that once inspired jealousy from legacy media organizations, will shutter, BuzzFeed chief executive Jonah Peretti announced Thursday. The move was part of broader layoffs across BuzzFeed, Peretti said, with the company moving to slash 15% of its workforce. “While layoffs are occurring across nearly

By Joe Rossignol, MacRumors The Wall Street Journal‘s Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern on Wednesday published a report highlighting how thieves can use Apple’s optional recovery key security option to permanently lock out iPhone users from their Apple ID account. As the journalists first revealed in February, there have been increasing instances of thieves spying on an iPhone user’s

By Clare Duffy, CNN Facebook users who had an active account at any point between May 2007 and December 2022 can now apply to receive a piece of parent company Meta’s $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta in December agreed to the payment to settle a longstanding class action lawsuit accusing it

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – If you look closely you can see a 3-pointed logo on the screen of a high-powered Legion laptop from Lenovo. And Mercedes has taken exception to the similarity of that logo to its own star. Thus a lawsuit. The international auto giant has filed a trademark lawsuit against Lenovo in the

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM’s recent announcement that it had formed a partnership in Japan for semiconductor research and development has triggered a lawsuit from U.S.-based GlobalFoundries, the chip manufacturer that says intellectual property about chips was sold by IBM to GlobalFoundries in 2015. The suit was announced Wednesday. GlobalFoundries also raised concern about IBM

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK –  A group of Russian hackers known as APT28 also known as Fancy Bear is deploying malware in the West by exploiting what cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and U.K.  call “poorly maintained Cisco routers.” The group is described as a “highly skilled threat actor.” Here is the joint warning announcement and

CARY – Epic Games made an investment in Brazil-based Aquiris game studio a year ago and on Wednesday announced it had acquired the privately held firm. The mission: “create groundbreaking content and social experiences within Fortnite.” Epic is renaming Aquiris as Epic Games Brasil, thus also establishing its first studio in Latin America. Epic –

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s name before they transitioned, as well as purposefully using the wrong gender

By Juli Clover, MacRumors Niantic, the company behind the popular augmented reality iPhone game Pokémon Go, is developing a similar augmented reality title in the Capcom Monster Hunter franchise. For those unfamiliar with Monster Hunter, it is a roleplaying game where the goal is to team up with others to take down giant monsters, harvesting their components