Peter Akemann, co-founder of video game studio Treyarch and recent president of Skydance Interactive, has pleaded guilty to crashing a drone into a firefighting plane during the recent Los Angeles wildfires. Akemann ignored flying restrictions in order to survey the Palisades Fire but lost track of his drone. Here's more from Eurogamer.
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Treyarch co-founder pleads guilty to flying drone that crashed into firefighting plane during LA wildfires
Treyarch co-founder Peter Akemann - who more recently served as president of Skydance Interactive - has pleaded guilty …
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The uncertainty surrounding TikTok's presence in the U.S. benefited Snap's business, says CEO Evan Spiegel.
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Snap says TikTok uncertainty benefited its business | TechCrunch
During Snap's fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future has positiv...
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DeepSeek's artificial intelligence tool has the capability to send user data to the Chinese government. "We see direct links to servers and to companies in China that are under control of the Chinese government. And this is something that we have never seen in the past," says cybersecurity CEO, Ivan Tsarynny.
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DeepSeek coding has the capability to transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government
DeepSeek coding has the capability to transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government
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DJI explains why it won’t stop drones from flying over the White House — and what happens in a US ban
What if DJI sold new gear everywhere but here?
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Meet the hired guns who help make sure the details of school cyberattacks stay hidden from the victims, whose leaked personal information leaves them vulnerable to identity theft and other forms of online exploitation.
Kept in the Dark: Meet the Hired Guns Who Ensure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
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Australia has banned China's DeepSeek from all federal government devices and systems over security concerns. [@BBCNews](
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Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk
The Australian government says the Chinese AI app is a threat to it and its assets.
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China has launched an antirust probe into Google as a part of their retaliation against U.S. tariffs. [@AssociatedPress](
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China launches an antitrust probe into Google. Here's what it means
The Chinese government’s move to open an antitrust probe into Google is the latest development in a long and entangled relationship that goes bac...
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Adam Candeub is probably not the person Mark Zuckerberg and other tech execs were hoping to see take a key role at the Federal Communications Commission. Candeub was integral in a “late effort in Trump’s first term to revoke legal protections for social media” and has been named general counsel of the FCC. Read more from [@Semafor](
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Big tech critic to take key FCC role
Adam Candeub is probably not the hire Mark Zuckerberg was hoping for.
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Brace yourself, Europe. Some of you are about to take a dip in the Hot Tub — the first “Apple-approved" porn app for iPhones. Apple bans “overtly sexual or pornographic material” on its own iOS store, but that hasn’t prevented Hot Tub from rolling out via an alternative marketplace. [@theverge](
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The first ‘approved’ iPhone porn app is coming to Europe
Things are getting steamy on AltStore PAL.
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PowerSchool, a provider of K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students across North America, confirmed in early January that it was hit by breach at the end of 2024. Despite the passing of an entire month, many questions remain unanswered. Read more from [@Techcrunch](
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What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students | TechCrunch
New details have emerged about PowerSchool's data breach — but here's what PowerSchool still isn't saying.
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