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Meta won’t let staff discuss topics like abortion, gun control and vaccines at work

Meta employees were told that they should not discuss sensitive issues like abortion, gun control, pending legislation and vaccine efficacy at work. Fortune reported on these changes, citing a leaked internal memo from Lori Goler, head of people at Meta. TechCrunch confirmed the report with a Meta spokesperson. “As Mark mentioned recently, we need to…

This dangerous botnet might have been taken down by a simple typo

A threat actor irretrievably destroyed its own botnet with nothing more than a typo. Cybersecurity firm Akamai spotted the blunder in KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that also had distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities, before recently crashing and reporting an “index out of range” error.  Akamai’s researchers were monitoring the botnet while an attack on…

App Store purchases can now cost up to £12,000, or just 29p

Apple has announced a massive revamp of App Store pricing with 700 new price points ranging up to £10,000. The new pricing tools will allow developers much more flexibility when setting the prices for apps, in-app purchases (IAPs) and subscriptions, which could provide more value for consumers where prices would otherwise be rounded-up. The lowest…