Kim Kardashian is the latest celebrity to land in legal trouble for unlawfully promoting a crypto product to her followers without disclosing she had been paid to do so. The reality star settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by paying a $1.26 million penalty for promoting a crypto security sold by EthereumMax. While…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
I’ve long been super against edited tweets, mostly for technical reasons. The core issue is that Twitter isn’t like other social media sites; unlike, say Instagram and Facebook posts, embedded tweets drive the news in many ways. Republishing and retweeting of tweets is the main risk around allowing users to edit it. Let me break…
Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations, which had seen them gathering data from Facebook and Instagram users for marketing intelligence purposes, according to the original complaint filed in October 2020. The companies named in the suit, Israeli-based BrandTotal Ltd. and Delaware-incorporated…
One of the highest-profile sexual assault allegations against Chinese business tycoons ended abruptly this past weekend. Liu Qiangdong, the founder of Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com, also known as Richard Liu, has reached a settlement with Liu Jingyao, a former University of Minnesota student who alleged that the billionaire raped her in her apartment in 2018….
Spin, which was acquired by Tier Mobility earlier this year, has laid off about 10% of its staff — including a number of executives — and is exiting Canada and Seattle, TechCrunch has learned. The micromobility company informed its workforce of more than 700 during a Friday all-hands meeting that lower-than-expected demand in the U.S….
It looks like Elon Musk has found himself a perfect, go-to scapegoat: Twitter bots. On Monday, Musk decided to tweet a poll asking users of the platform their opinion on his “Ukraine-Russia peace” plan. The world’s richest man appears to believe that the solution to Russia’s war in Ukraine involves the invaded country pretty much…
Amazon has launched a new shopping hub called Amazon Access, which is still about shopping but, in a twist, is designed to help those living on government assistance. Amazon Access starts by providing new features and support for alternate payment methods. This means customers can now buy food on the website with SNAP EBT (better…
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GT Detailing owner Gabe Tyler transforms a stained, trashed-filled Ford Escape to look brand new. Cleaning from top to bottom can help avoid cleaning the same area twice. Steam cleaners help re-melt previously melted candy and chocolate for an easier cleanup. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This Ford Escape came to GT…
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands for a photo in front of the Supreme Court following her investiture ceremony on September 30, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took the Supreme Court bench for the first time on Monday. The newest justice engaged in plenty of questioning on her first day…