James Farrell

The New York Times today said it was “disappointed” as its tech union went on strike just one day before one of the most blustery U.S. presidential elections in recent history. About 600 workers at the newspaper, which happens to […]

A Russian court today announced that Google LLC owes the Kremlin a staggering 2 trillion rubles for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. Two undecillion rubles – a 2 followed by 36 zeroes – amount to $20 decillion, or

The Treasury Department today issued a final rule which serves to restrict and monitor U.S. tech investments in China in an effort to bolster national security. The main areas of investment are artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing. The

The Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn has been ordered to pay €310 million ($334 million) by the European Union’s privacy regulator over targeted advertising practices, one the biggest fines to hit American big tech under the General Data Protection

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB, announced today it’s fining Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs $89 million over practices involving the Apple Card. CFPB says hundreds of thousands of Apple Card users were affected when the two companies “illegally mishandled

Some of the biggest names in the creative arts have added their names to a letter addressing what for them is the growing problem of the unlicensed use of creative works for AI training. The signatories call data scraping a “major,

Meta Platforms Inc. today said it’s in the process of testing new facial recognition technology to help reduce the number of “celebrity bait” ads that appear on the company’s social media platforms. The company explained that when an ad is

Meta Platforms Inc. has been cutting jobs in various divisions, including letting 24 go from Instagram and Facebook for abusing the company’s $25 meal credit system. In the latter case, it’s reported that the transgressors had not been spending their

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its new “click to cancel” rule, which will make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up. Getting out of subscriptions is notoriously annoying, usually taking much more effort

The U.S. and U.K. governments today announced they’re creating a joint children’s online safety working group in an effort to find “common solutions” to the issue of child safety online. “As more children across the U.S. and around the globe