An ex-Apple employee, Dhirendra Prasad, pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges after defrauding Apple of $17M+, including via kickbacks, starting in 2011
Former parts buyer engaged in theft, taking kickbacks and inflating invoices, prosecutors say. — Steven Musil
Google discontinues Google Translate in mainland China, one of the last remaining services the company provides in the country, citing “low usage”
The service was one of Google's last remaining offerings in the country. — Steven Musil — Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News.
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Epic has filed an appeal to Friday's ruling in its lawsuit against Apple with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
but it's not done fighting yet Alex Tsiaoussidis / dexerto.com : Epic Games appeals after Apple wins Fortnite lawsuit Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : Epic Games files to appeal ruling in Apple lawsuit J...
Kuo: Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by AR glasses by 2025 and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040
Mark Zuckerberg on the Future of AR and VR Aaron Pressman / Fortune : The latest charges against John McAfee show exactly how not to tout and trade cryptocurrencies Liam Tung / ZDNet : Apple's first a...
In a new filing, Epic says revocation of its developer tools by Apple will harm the developer ecosystem and adds a declaration of support from Microsoft
the story so far Chris Wallace / MCV/DEVELOP : Microsoft submits statement of support for Epic Games in Apple fight Chris Smith / BGR : Why Epic isn't an innocent victim in the Fortnite battle with Ap...
Lawsuits filed Tuesday accuse Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft of training facial recognition tools with photos of people without consent, violating Illinois law
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Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China
Apple is committed to being transparent … Kim Lyons / The Verge : Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP : ...
Facebook suffers third major outage in 2019, with all of its services down for ~2 hours on Sunday, after a ~24-hour outage in March, and a smaller crash in Jan.
down (again) Matt Binder / Mashable : Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger all go down in worldwide outage Yoel Minkoff / Seeking Alpha : Another outage for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Ch...
Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections
As part of our efforts to prevent interference … Tony Romm / Washington Post : Facebook ties newly suspended accounts to the Kremlin, a ‘timely reminder’ of election meddling threat CNN : Facebook tak...