By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, she felt a rush of excitement at the honor, followed by bewilderment at the seeming enormity of the task. “Where do you…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington, D.C., against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead consumers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The lawsuit alleged violation of the district’s consumer protection law. The social media…
By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, U.S. security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered. Software maker Progress Software Corp, after…
By Kantaro Komiya and Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s privacy watchdog said on Friday it has warned OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, not to collect sensitive data without people’s permission. OpenAI should minimise the sensitive data it collects for machine learning, the Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement, adding…
(Reuters) – Major U.S. wireless carriers on Friday said they not in talks with Amazon.com Inc to offer low-cost wireless services to its Prime members. Wireless shares fell Friday after Bloomberg News reported that Amazon was negotiating to get the lowest possible wholesale prices and could offer wireless plans for $10 a month or lower…
(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co said on Friday that it has removed certain produced content from its direct-to-consumer (DTC) services and will record a related $1.5 billion impairment charge in its fiscal third-quarter financial statements. (Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After a series of much stronger-than-expected results this reporting period, S&P 500 companies look like they will end up with first-quarter earnings essentially unchanged from a year ago. Based on Refinitiv data Friday that included results from 494 of the S&P 500, earnings now are estimated to have dipped just 0.01%…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairmen of two House of Representatives panels on Friday urged President Joe Biden’s administration to rally U.S. allies including Japan and South Korea to defeat Chinese “economic aggression” in the wake of Beijing’s effective ban on purchases of Micron Technology memory chips. Michael McCaul, who heads the…
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to U.S. presidential elections in 2020 and before. The new set of updates is part of YouTube’s elections misinformation policy that will go into effect immediately. “In the current environment, we find that…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday approved a $415 million class-action settlement resolving claims that online gaming companies DoubleDown Interactive LLC and International Game Technology PLC violated Washington state gambling laws and consumer protection provisions. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle federal court called the resolution “fair,…
