The social media company Meta is facing a complaint for breaching European data protection law after offering customers the choice of accepting targeted advertisements based on their likes, interests and other personal information, or paying for an ad-free alternative. The privacy group, Noyb, filed a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority, claiming that
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Did Google Drive lose some people’s data? That’s the question swirling around the Internet right now as Google announces it’s investigating “sync issues” for Google Drive for desktop. On Monday The Register spotted a trending post on the Google Drive forums where a user claimed that months of Drive data suddenly disappeared, and their files
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A prolific espionage hacking group with ties to China spent over two years looting the corporate network of NXP, the Netherlands-based chipmaker whose silicon powers security-sensitive components found in smartphones, smartcards, and electric vehicles, a news outlet has reported. The intrusion, by a group tracked under names including “Chimera” and “G0114,” lasted from late 2017
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Nov. 28, 2023 12:54 pm ET During his September trip to Vietnam, President Biden dismissed a reporter who asked for his thoughts on the threat the Chinese Communist Party poses to Taiwan. “I think China has a difficult economic problem right now,” Mr. Biden said. “I don’t think it’s going to cause China to invade Taiwan.
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The pitch for Last Train Home probably isn’t what you’d expect from a PC strategy game. It Adapts the experiences of Czech Legionnaires who had to fight their way across Russia and Siberia during the eve of World War I and the dawn of the Russian Civil War. They went across the country by train,
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Given how quickly generative AI tech has come onto the market, it isn’t surprising to discover that in-depth knowledge of how to use it, or even how it works is very limited. As the recent TECHnalysis Research study on GenAI usage in the enterprise highlighted, the lack of education on the topic is staggering. For
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Harman, a wholly-owned subsidiary by Samsung Electronics, has announced the acquisition of a music streaming, management, and discovery platform, Roon. Harman deals with connected technologies for the automotive, consumer, and enterprise industries. Harman will now be in charge of managing the music player platform Roon. This music platform targets music enthusiasts with a user-friendly interface
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Google is investigating reports that some users of its Drive service cannot access recent files. Source link
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(SAN FRANCISCO) — Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall Street
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 28 November 2023 Datacentres or green belt? Why the UK has to choose Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the minefield around datacentre planning permission across the UK, after government blocked a major development next to the M25 motorway.
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