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Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United States about Facebook and Instagram user accounts being stolen and declaring “immediate action” necessary to mitigate the rolling threat.The coalition of top law enforcement officials, spearheaded by New York attorney general Letitia James, says the “dramatic and persistent spike” in complaints concerning account takeovers amounts to a “substantial drain” on governmental resources, as…

From AirPower to abandoned tablets, Apple's road to success is littered with failures Apple has scrapped plans to enter the automotive industry with its mysterious autonomous electric car, instead shifting focus to the wildly popular world of generative AI. The project saw the company hiring prominent executives from places like Tesla and Ford. Its end has led to job losses for some employees, while others have changed divisions inside the company. The so-called Project Titan had…

Eating is as universal as breathing to pretty much everyone on this planet. It should be second nature at this point—and it is to some degree. But the degree to which it ought to be apparently depends on people’s whim.Sure, animals and kids leave a mess because they can’t help it, but what do you do when your significant other—a grown woman—keeps going at her food like a deaf raccoon with zero social spatial awareness? Table manners are there for a reason—it keeps things clean and tidy, all the while making sure…

FTX has abandoned efforts to restart its crypto exchange, instead opting for a liquidation that should repay customers in full, a company attorney said on Wednesday.FTX has been negotiating for months with potential bidders and investors, but none were willing to put in enough money to rebuild the FTX exchange, FTX attorney Andy Dietderich said at a bankruptcy court hearing in Delaware.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science…

Amazon and iRobot, maker of the Roomba vacuum line, just announced that they would be dropping their proposed merger. The potential acquisition was announced back in August of 2022 and was immediately the target of antitrust watchdogs, particularly in the EU. The European Commission (the EU's executive branch) officially announced it was looking into the $1.4 billion dollar deal last July and it raised formal concerns over the potential impact on competition in November.iRobot also just announced a large round of layoffs…

Needless to say, both the employee and the company should be well-aware of their responsibilities at the workplace. Luckily for this redditor, Mark, he sure was.The problems started when a new HR manager, Susan, started implementing strict workplace policies, one of which noted that an employee who’s even a minute late would face immediate suspension. Well, the redditor was, but he knew the employee handbook well enough to engage in malicious compliance and get the suspension lifted. Micromanaging certain professionals…

After a few weeks of pure chaos, Beeper has announced that it will no longer try to bring iMessage support to Android users as “each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, the company’s credibility takes a hit,” said Beeper in a blog post.After detailing that it was using Beeper Cloud’s desktop app on Mac to obtain iMessage registration data, the company also said it could make iMessage work on Android as long as the other user had a jailbroken iPhone from 6…

Image Source : REUTERS Adobe terminates USD 20 bn dollar deal with Figma Adobe (ADBE.O) has reportedly shelved its USD 20 billion deal for Figma- a cloud-based designer platform, reasoning to "no clear path" for antitrust approvals in the UK and Europe for what would have been among the biggest buyouts of a software startup. The cash-and-stock deal was…

Apple has been on a long and difficult path to develop its own in-house 5G modem and it seems that battle is not headed in the right direction. According to a new post on South Korean platform, Naver, supply chain sources close to Apple are saying that Cupertino is in the process of restructuring investments in its modem development department as the company is preparing to scrap the project altogether. Similar reports from Japanese supply chain sources were confirmed by tipster @Tech_Reve who holds a reliable track…

The Swiss solar maker is diverting production equipment from Germany to the US to build a new solar cell factory in Colorado instead. The Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has struck yet again. Last month, Meyer Burger warned the German government that it would invest in the US rather than expand in Germany because of generous IRA subsidies. The company’s original plan was for a 2 gigawatt (GW) per annum solar cell manufacturing expansion at its Thalheim factory in…