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Snap has settled with two teenagers who accuse Snapchat and other social media apps of addictive design. Their trial in Los Angeles was days away. The terms are confidential. Lawyers for the plaintiffs announced the settlement on Monday, Reuters reported. Jury selection began last week.
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Meta is planning to release the last OS update for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets by March 2027, the company announced today.
Google may swap out the Google app’s Activity tab for something new.
Create AI voiceovers, clone voices and produce podcasts with 50K characters each month for next to nothing on the normal price.
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was due to testify in the upcoming trial.
Squarespace is laying off 19% of its workforce, about 300 people, The Verge reported on Monday. The website builder has about 1,800 employees worldwide. Most of the cuts hit product and engineering teams, according to a companywide memo from chief executive Anthony Casalena seen by Business Insider.
Germany’s cybersecurity agency has told lawmakers who got Apple’s spyware warnings to treat their iPhones as possibly compromised. Several Bundestag members and other public figures have received the alerts since 29 October.
Revolut has been registered as a bank in New Zealand, clearing the way for the fintech to expand its financial services in the country. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced the approval on Tuesday, local time, making Revolut Bank New Zealand the country’s 27th registered bank.
Microsoft and Lumen Technologies are expanding their partnership to jointly sell networking to companies running AI on Azure. Lumen plans to bring its full cloud networking range to Azure. No figures or dates were given.
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