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Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images (Getty Images)Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous anti-vaxxer and 2024 presidential hopeful, says he wasn’t the one who posted a message on the TikTok page of a fitness influencer who was admiring her glutes after a workout. Sure, RFK Jr., we believe you as much as you believe Big Pharma. Will Banning TikTok Solve Privacy Issues? | Future TechThe reply happened in Sept. 2022 on Tyler Idol’s account, which she now has pinned to her page, and was unearthed by some right-wing dork on X…

Is “read more books” on your list of New Year’s resolutions? If it isn’t, you’ll surely be tempted to make room for it—and form a new habit that’ll last through 2024—once you see all the new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles hitting bookshelves in January.What Makes Immortal Longings an Epic Fantasy? | io9 InterviewImage: Subterranean PressHeartless by H.G. ParryThis riff on Peter Pan follows a man who becomes dangerously obsessed with tracking down a long-lost childhood friend who shared his fascination with the classic…

AI proved just how talented it can be at ripping off major artists after a computer-generated song based on The Weeknd and Drake went viral in April. Now, the Recording Academy—the body that votes on and manages the annual Grammy Awards—is setting new rules for AI’s role in the coveted accolade.ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future TechSpeaking to Grammy.com, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. laid out some confusing new standards for acceptable use of AI. Mason Jr. said that AI-assisted music canbe…

The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment Friday that claims to identify the two hackers who brought down the notorious Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange more than a decade ago. He Tossed His Bitcoin, Now He Wants It BackPopularly remembered as one of the first major crypto exchanges to buckle under the weight of theft and financial mismanagement, Mt. Gox was hacked in 2011, leading to the loss of some 647,000 bitcoins. Not long afterward, the company imploded, and its former CEO was arrested and charged with fraud…

A Russian national has been charged for his alleged role in the cyberattacks against law enforcement, government agencies, hospitals, and schools. The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed two indictments on Tuesday against Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who is known online as Wazawaka, claiming he demanded a total of $400 million from his victims and received roughly $200 million in ransom payments. Teenage Cybercrime Gang LAPSUS$ Strikes Again“From his home base in Russia, Matveev allegedly used multiple ransomware variants…

A Washington woman with acute tuberculosis remains free despite having an arrest warrant filed against her. She was diagnosed over a year ago and has continued to refuse treatment or to isolate herself from others while contagious. Local health officials are expected to once again obtain a court order on Friday.Mental Health Apps Are a Privacy NightmareThe saga became public this January, when Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department officials alerted the public to the woman’s ongoing case of tuberculosis. At the time, they…

Silicon Valley Bank, once triumphantly dubbed the “financial partner of the innovation economy,” before its recent historic collapse, is being acquired by First Citizens, a legacy banking institution founded in 1898. The new deal will see First Citizens take on the entirety of SVB’s loans and deposits just two weeks after the bank sent shockwaves through the financial industry with its sudden implosion. First Citizen announced the deal on Monday in partnership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which…

Photo: Mark Schiefelbein (AP)Swedish multinational tech giant Ericsson pled guilty this week to bribery and agreed to pay the Department of Justice $206 million dollars. Federal prosecutors accused Ericsson of engaging in a long-running international corruption scheme that involved bribing government officials, falsifying records, and failing to put in place proper account controls. Ericsson had a chance to have those charges dropped under a deferred prosecution agreement but ultimately blew it byfailing to provide…

PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada put her foot in her mouth.Photo: Steve Jennings (Getty Images)Considering the steady stream of layoffs coursing through the tech industry, it’s understandable that some CEOs want to take extra care when informing employees that their company will also be cutting jobs. However, calling layoffs “refinements” and quoting Martin Luther King Jr. is not the way to go.Unfortunately, that’s exactly what PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada did earlier this week, prompting shock and ridicule on social media.…

Scientist Rose Abramoff (left) chained to a White House fence in April 2022. Photo: Will DicksonLast April, Tennessee-based soil scientist Rose Abramoff was arrested after chaining herself to a White House fence. She was one of about 1,000 scientists around the world who engaged in civil disobedience that week, organized by Scientist Rebellion. They demanded “emergency decarbonization” and wealth distribution. Before then, she says, she had done her best to remain apolitical. She worked behind the scenes to support…