Consumer group wants to end $255M “gift card loophole” for Starbucks and others
Enlarge / Starbucks’ Rewards programs are a key part of their revenue. How the company deals with unspent amounts in…
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Enlarge / Starbucks’ Rewards programs are a key part of their revenue. How the company deals with unspent amounts in…
There’s currently a surge in cryptocurrency and phishing scams proliferating on X (formerly Twitter)—hiding under the guise of gold and…
23andMe is “shamelessly” blaming victims of a data breach impacting 6.9 million users, a lawyer representing victims pursuing a class-action…
Getty Images | SOPA Images TurboTax maker Intuit’s tax breaks are being questioned by four US lawmakers who object to…
Enlarge / A still from a HyperVerse video featuring CEO Steven Reece Lewis. For years, rumors spread on social media…
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks with members of the media at the AI Safety Summit on November 1, 2023 in…
Getty Images | DNY59 Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network is worth…
Enlarge / A marketing image for Vizio’s P-series Q9 TV. Vizio has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a…
If you were to search for a product called “Mens Maximum Energy Supplement” on Amazon, you’d be bombarded with everything…
Getty Images Google has indicated that it is ready to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over its Chrome…
Enlarge / Microsoft is named in the suit for allegedly building the system that allowed GPT derivatives to be trained…
Some TikTok users may have skipped reviewing an update to TikTok’s terms of service this summer that shakes up the process…
Just two days after updating its policy to allow for more nudity, Twitch has announced that it’s immediately “rolling back…
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) on December 15,…
We’ve all experienced it or heard about it happening: Someone has a conversation about wanting a red jacket, and then…
Adobe has abandoned its proposed $20 billion acquisition of product design software company Figma, as there was “no clear path…
After Epic Games proved that Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, Google has agreed to pay a $700…
When you drop money in the bank, it looks like it’s just sitting there, ready for you to withdraw. In…
Aurich / Getty US president Joe Biden’s plan for containing the dangers of artificial intelligencealready risks being derailed by congressional…
ToolX via Getty Images Three of the world’s biggest pornography sites will be hit with new regulatory curbs including stricter…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently seeking comments on new rules that would further restrict platforms’ efforts to monetize…
More than 1,000 known child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) were found in a large open dataset—known as LAION-5B—that was used…
Enlarge / Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ,” in May 10, 2022, in Rome, Italy.…
Enlarge / Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican caucus lunch on November…
Getty Images | Chris Delmas The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether Elon Musk’s X platform (formerly…
Enlarge / Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., arrives at court in New York on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Milton…
A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant owners around…