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Meta investors settle $8bn lawsuit with Zuckerberg over Facebook privacy

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-22 15:35:58

Meta investors settle $8bn lawsuit with Zuckerberg over Facebook privacy Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a multibillion dollar lawsuit with a group of shareholders over how top executives at Meta handled repeated privacy violations by Facebook. The shareholders were seeking $8bn (£6bn) in damages. It is unclear how much they agreed to settle for. The settlement was announced on Thursday by a lawyer for the shareholders, just before the trial was about to enter its second day in a Delawar

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Starlink Just Rolled Out a $15-Per-Month Plan in New York, but You’ll Have to Qualify to Sign Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 00:00:00

Starlink has brought high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans for the first time. It’s also one of the most expensive internet service providers in the country. So, how is it available in New York for just $15 a month? If Starlink wants to sell internet in the state, it doesn’t have a choice. That’s thanks to the Affordable Broadband Act, a New York state law passed in January. Customers will still have to pay for $349 upfront, however, which will likely be an insurmountable cost for

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These durable mounts made my AirTags twice as useful (and more secure)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-07-23 23:15:12

ZDNET's key takeaways These are tough, water- and dirt-resistant AirTag holders that will last years. They go a long way to preventing bad guys from removing your AirTags from secured items. They work on everything from suitcases, camera bags, jackets, and even your cat or dog! View now at Amazon I've mentioned more than once my undying love for Apple AirTags. These devices have made my life so much less stressful, and I have them attached to pretty much everything I could possibly lose. How

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Tesla's change in bylaws to limit shareholder lawsuits slammed by New York state officials

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-07-24 21:33:36

In May, Tesla changed its corporate bylaws in a way that would require investors to own 3% of the stock, today worth about $30 billion, in order to file a derivative lawsuit against the company for breach of fiduciary duties. Authorities in New York State are now asking Tesla to delete the bylaw entirely. Overseers of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which owns about 0.1% of Tesla's shares, submitted a formal proxy proposal and letter to the company on July 11, and shared it with CNBC

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Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 00:45:43

Mark Zuckerberg is slated to make yet another high-stakes courtroom appearance this week as shareholders seek to hold him accountable for the more than $8 billion that Meta has spent to settle lawsuits over privacy violations. The trial, set to begin Wednesday in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, aims to hold Zuckerberg, former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and other former executives personally liable for the billions the company spent to resolve allegations that it failed to safeguard user data. Sh

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What Makes a Car Lovable? It's Not the Tech, It's the Cup Holders

wired.com Carlton Reid 2025-07-30 17:00:00

Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results are revealing, to say the least. Want to know who was the worst performer? That ignominy goes to Audi, with an embarrassing 269 problems reported per 100 vehicles. However, one of the most interesting discoveries of the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (labelled as a “key finding”, no less) concerned not annoyance with the lack of physical buttons, nor, amazingly, intrusive b

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You Can Now Get Starlink for $15-Per-Month in New York, but There’s a Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-01 22:15:00

Starlink has brought high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans for the first time. It’s also one of the most expensive internet service providers in the country. So, how is it available in New York for just $15 a month? If it wants to sell internet in the state, it doesn’t have a choice. That’s thanks to the Affordable Broadband Act, a New York state law passed in January. The law says that major ISPs (those serving 20,000 households or more) operating in New York must offer plans sta

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Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Renae Clark 2025-08-07 22:15:18

Have you ever spent hours on a piece of artwork, only to watch it fade over time? It’s a frustrating reality for many artists, and it all comes down to something called ‘lightfastness’ – a medium’s resistance to fading over time when exposed to light. If you want your work to last, choosing supplies with good lightfast ratings is essential. But how do we know which art supplies will hold up over time? Some brands advertise their materials as “lightfast,” but do their claims hold up in real-worl

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Huge Number of Crypto Users Suddenly Getting Terrifying Letters From the IRS

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 17:08:25

Crypto bros are freaking out amid a surge in letters from the Internal Revenue Service about their digital currency holdings. As Bitcoin.com and other sites report, there has been a whopping 758 percent spike in customer mentions of IRS letters over the past two months alone, suggesting that there may be a taxation crackdown in progress. We don't know exactly how many people have gotten these troubling letters — but apparently, there are a few different types going out. According to Coinledge

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Retail giant Ahold Delhaize says data breach affects 2.2 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-24 12:12:43

Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, is notifying over 2.2 million individuals that their personal, financial, and health information was stolen in a November ransomware attack that impacted its U.S. systems. The multinational retailer and wholesale company operates over 9,400 local stores across Europe, the United States, and Indonesia, employing more than 393,000 people and serving approximately 60 million customers each week in-store and online. It has reported yea

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I Wanted to Switch to Pixel 10, but This iOS 26 Feature Might Keep Me on iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-31 13:00:04

I switched from a Google Pixel 3 XL to Apple's iPhone 12 Pro Max in 2021, and in the years since, I've dearly missed Google's Hold For Me. This feature is so useful that I'm shocked it hasn't been brought to the iPhone or even other Android phones in the years since. Hold For Me saves me from the misery of listening to awful hold music whenever I needed to call up a business, my health insurance provider, my cellphone carrier or any of the other myriad adulting tasks that still require speaking

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Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 04:40:05

Cataphracts Design Diary #1 Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military historian Bret Devereaux’s blog, ACOUP: analyses of Helm’s Deep and Minas Tirith, breakdowns of pre-modern command and pre-modern logistics, and, of course, a post simply titled “How Fast Do Armies Move?”. I’m a fan of Devereaux’s—he writes in that delicious space of really knowing his history yet also with the understanding he

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Apple shareholders sue over Apple Intelligence and Siri delays

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-03 05:03:26

Apple is continuing to face fallout from its Apple Intelligence rollout. As spotted by Reuters, Apple shareholders have sued Apple in a proposed class action securities fraud case for allegedly “downplaying how long it needed to integrate advanced artificial intelligence into its Siri voice assistant.” The lawsuit alleges that this misrepresentation negatively impacted iPhone sales and Apple’s stock price. In the lawsuit, Apple executives, including CEO Tim Cook, CFO Kevan Parekh, and former C

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New details emerge on Meta’s $14.3B deal for Scale

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-14 09:35:56

In Brief Meta’s deal to partially acquire the AI startup Scale, giving it 49% ownership, is certainly unusual. What Scale officially announced is that the deal values the company at over $29 billion and that it will “distribute” proceeds to shareholders and vested equity holders (aka employees) granting them with “substantial liquidity” while allowing them to continue as shareholders. Meta is also hiring Scale’s famed founder CEO Alexandr Wang, who famously dropped out of MIT at age 19 to bui

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This iOS 26 Feature Might Keep Me From Switching Back to Pixel

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 13:00:03

I switched from a Google Pixel 3 XL in 2021 to Apple's iPhone 12 Pro Max, and in the years since, I've dearly missed Google's Hold For Me. This feature is so useful in saving me from the misery of listening to awful hold music whenever I needed to call up a business, my health insurance provider, my cellphone carrier or any of the other myriad adulting tasks that still require speaking with a representative. Instead, the Google feature would helpfully silence my phone while keeping the call acti

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4 Pixel phone tricks every user should know - including my favorite

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-06-03 08:57:17

Adam Breeden/ZDNET I've been a Pixel phone devotee since the beginning, and one of my favorite features is the call-screening capability that debuted with the Pixel 3 in 2018. I don't remember the last time I answered an unnecessary call, and I can't imagine switching to a phone without it. Also: The best Google Pixel phones of 2025: Which one should you buy? Over the years though, Pixel call screening -- now named Call Assist -- has added several new tricks beyond simply keeping robocalls an

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Latest Tech News

Meta investors settle $8bn lawsuit with Zuckerberg over Facebook privacy

Starlink Just Rolled Out a $15-Per-Month Plan in New York, but You’ll Have to Qualify to Sign Up

These durable mounts made my AirTags twice as useful (and more secure)

Tesla's change in bylaws to limit shareholder lawsuits slammed by New York state officials

Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court

What Makes a Car Lovable? It's Not the Tech, It's the Cup Holders

You Can Now Get Starlink for $15-Per-Month in New York, but There’s a Catch

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

Huge Number of Crypto Users Suddenly Getting Terrifying Letters From the IRS

Retail giant Ahold Delhaize says data breach affects 2.2 million people

I Wanted to Switch to Pixel 10, but This iOS 26 Feature Might Keep Me on iPhone

Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300

Apple shareholders sue over Apple Intelligence and Siri delays

New details emerge on Meta’s $14.3B deal for Scale

This iOS 26 Feature Might Keep Me From Switching Back to Pixel

4 Pixel phone tricks every user should know - including my favorite

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