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February 1, 2024

TikTok and Universal Music Group: What’s Next for Users and Artists?

Kyle C. Garrison

Universal’s concerns are real, and reflect some of the most urgent challenges in the music business today: artists’ need to make a decent living, the parameters of modern licensing contracts,…

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January 31, 2024

Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Package Is Voided by Judge

Kyle C. Garrison

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, suffered a stunning rebuke Tuesday when a Delaware judge voided the pay package that helped make him a billionaire many times over and…

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January 29, 2024

Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Kyle C. Garrison

Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, said that it would stop letting police departments request users’ footage in its app amid longstanding concerns from privacy advocates about…

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January 27, 2024

23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says

Kyle C. Garrison

The genetic testing company 23andMe is being accused in a class-action lawsuit of failing to protect the privacy of customers whose personal information was exposed last year in a data…

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January 26, 2024

L.A. County to Pay $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach

Kyle C. Garrison

Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the top executive of an election software company who had been arrested and charged in 2022 with mishandling voter data in…

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January 24, 2024

New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden

Kyle C. Garrison

Voters in New Hampshire received robocall messages over the weekend in a voice that was most likely artificially generated to impersonate President Biden’s, urging them not to vote in Tuesday’s…

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January 22, 2024

Microsoft Executives’ Emails Hacked by Group Tied to Russian Intelligence

Kyle C. Garrison

An elite hacking group sponsored by Russian intelligence gained access to the emails of some of Microsoft’s senior executives beginning in late November, the company disclosed in a blog post…

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January 21, 2024

Apple Takes a Humble Approach to Launching Its Newest Device

Kyle C. Garrison

When Apple released the Apple Watch in 2015, it was business as usual for a company whose iPhone updates had become cultural touchstones. Before the watch went on sale, Apple…

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January 19, 2024

Astrobotic’s Peregrine Moon Lander Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere

Kyle C. Garrison

A spacecraft that was headed to the surface of the moon has ended up back at Earth instead, burning up in the planet’s atmosphere on Thursday afternoon.Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh…

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