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U.S. senators demand Meta's internal data on kids' safety

The 10 senators led by Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, made the demand a week after a Senate hearing where former Meta safety researchers said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material

17 Sep 2025 9:45 am
Microsoft seizes 340 websites linked to growing phishing subscription service

Microsoft obtained an order from the U.S. District Court in Manhattan earlier this month to seize domains associated with Raccoon0365, the subscription service that allowed users to carry out massive phishing campaigns, which sometimes involved thousands of emails at a time, according to Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsofts Digital Crimes Unit

17 Sep 2025 9:37 am
Google releases open-source AI model VaultGemma with differential privacy

The AI model has 1-billion parameters and is based on the Gemma 2 from Googles family of small language models

16 Sep 2025 3:33 pm
OpenAI upgrades AI coding agent Codex

Called GPT-5 Codex, the agent can choose how much time it spends on a task with more complex problems taking up to 7 hours at a time

16 Sep 2025 11:56 am
Google fires over 200 AI contract workers for demanding better pay, job security: Report

A new report has revealed that these raters were working with the company to help improve AI products including Gemini and AI Overviews

16 Sep 2025 11:48 am
Online marketplace Fiverr to lay off 30% of workforce in AI push

The cuts, which will affect 250 employees, are a part of a restructuring plan announced by Fiverr's CEO Micha Kaufman geared towards investing heavily in AI and incorporating the technology into the company's platform

16 Sep 2025 9:53 am
Elon Musk's Starlink reports service outage, thousands of users affected

Starlink, operated by Musks SpaceX, provides internet services via a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites and is used in remote areas and conflict zones globally

15 Sep 2025 11:30 am
How slain U.S. activist Charlie Kirks supporters are shutting down online critics

Charlie Kirk, who rallied his millions of followers to help U.S. President Donald Trump win a second White House term, was both revered and reviled for his pro-gun, anti-abortion and anti-immigrant rhetoric

15 Sep 2025 9:38 am
Trump seen again pushing deadline on TikTok sale or divestment, source says

It would be the fourth reprieve granted by U.S. President Donald Trump from federal enforcement of a law that originally gave ByteDance until January 2025 to sell or shut down TikTok

15 Sep 2025 9:32 am