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Apple, accused of supporting China's censorship, is now facing new criticism

5:23pm December 26, 2022

by John Ruwitch

Protesters say Apple has kept tools that help circumvent censorship in China off its App store inside the country. Now it has to contend with pressure from Chinese citizens who aren't happy about it.

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A look at the year social media companies had

4:10pm December 26, 2022

by Shannon Bond

From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies had a rocky 2022.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on April 4, 2013. Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action privacy lawsuit.

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Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica

4:20pm December 23, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The proposed settlement is a result of revelations that the information of up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with the data analytics firm that worked for political campaigns.

Here's how life got pricier — and cheaper! — in 2022

How life got pricier (and, yes, cheaper!) this year — in 7 charts

6:52pm December 22, 2022

Boy, have we talked a lot about inflation. It affected every part of our lives (and the economy) in 2022. Here are some of its highest highs and lowest lows. (It wasn't all bad news!)

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ruling party congress in Pyongyang on Jan. 12, 2021. North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years, South Korea's spy agency said Thursday.

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North Korea has hacked $1.2 billion in crypto and other assets for its economy

11:25am December 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years, more than half of it this year alone, South Korea's spy agency says.

Bans on the social media app TikTok are beginning to gain momentum in Washington and several states. Experts say there's not much solid evidence that TikTok poses a national security threat.

Why the proposed TikTok ban is more about politics than privacy, according to experts

10:34am December 22, 2022

by Manuela López Restrepo

Digital privacy experts are skeptical of proposed TikTok bans, saying they are more about geopolitical tension than the social media app.

TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.

Congress is about to ban TikTok from U.S. government phones

9:47pm December 20, 2022

by Bobby Allyn

A ban on Chinese-owned TikTok for government devices is in a new spending bill. It will not affect most of the 100 million U.S. users of the app, but it is a major anti-TikTok escalation by the U.S.

NASA's InSight Mars lander is covered in dust in its final selfie, taken on April 24. The following month its robotic arm was put into resting position, aka "retirement pose."

Goodnight, sweet spacecraft: NASA's InSight lander may have just signed off from Mars

1:54pm December 20, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

InSight's end has long been in sight, with NASA warning that it would likely be inoperative by the end of the year. The lander went quiet this weekend and shared a tweet it said might be its last.

The mechatronic model features 85 points of movement.

Arts

An original model of E.T. is sold at auction for $2.56 million

1:02pm December 20, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The original mechatronic model of the alien from Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial headlined a weekend auction of Hollywood artifacts.

The FTC says nearly half of Epic Games' $520 million settlement will go to "refunds for tricking" Fortnite "users into making unwanted charges."

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Could you be eligible for a Fortnite refund?

12:44pm December 20, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Epic Games has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $520 million over allegations of privacy violations and unwanted charges. Nearly half of the money will go to refund consumers.