Almost two years after a wave of complaints flooded Google’s support forums about YouTube accounts getting hijacked even if users had two-factor authentication enabled, Google’s security team has finally tracked down the root cause of these attacks. Fr…
Twitter Algorithms Amplify Right-leaning Political Content More Than Left-leaning, Company Says Citing Own Research
Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform’s algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians and content from right-leaning news outlets more than people and content from the political left. From a report: The…
Amazon is Now a Bigger Shipper in the US than FedEx
Amazon is not primarily known as a logistics company, but in 2020 the company shipped more parcels than FedEx. From a report: Logistics is a $1.5 trillion business — and it has long been controlled by a handful of key players, like FedEx, UPS and the …
Gov. Parson Doubles Down on Push To Prosecute Reporter Who Found Security Flaw in State Site
Gov. Mike Parson escalated his war with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday when his political operation published a video doubling down on his attack against a reporter who informed the state that a state website revealed teacher Social Security …
Google Stadia’s Salvaged Future as a Back-end Cloud Service is Here
Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. From a report: Google’s AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google’s sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of users. The…
Google Lowers Play Store Fees To 15% on Subscription Apps, as Low as 10% for Media Apps
Google is lowering commissions on all subscription-based businesses on the Google Play Store, the company announced today. From a report: Previously, the company had followed Apple’s move by reducing commissions from 30% to 15% on the first $1 million …
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Wants To Scan Eyeballs in Exchange for Crypto
As investors race to capitalize on surging interest in cryptocurrencies, startups are getting creative in how they onboard a generation of crypto users to their first wallets. From a report: Worldcoin is perhaps one of the most audacious efforts to bri…
Google Removes Support for FTP and Old-gen U2F Security Keys in Chrome 95
Google today released Chrome v95, the latest version of its popular web browser and a version that contains several changes that will likely cause problems for a considerable part of its users. The problematic changes include: removing support for File…
Facebook is Planning To Rebrand the Company With a New Name
Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, The Verge reports, citing an unnamed source. From the report: The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company…
Giant Retailers Pledge To Leave Fossil-fueled Ships Behind
Major retailers, including Amazon and Ikea, are beginning to clean up their shipping pollution. From a report: A group of companies pledged yesterday that by 2040, they’ll only contract ships using zero-carbon fuels to move their goods. Both Ikea and A…