Jason's new office; Facebook's misinformation fail; Amazon union; TikTok's scraping "growth hack"; Pinterest calls itself bold & brave; Elon buys stake in Twitter, gets on board; Jack misses the world he destroyed; Moonfall is unbearably bad; Star Trek seems to be moving in the right direction except for that NFT stuff; Somebody Feed Phil returns; Wyze security debacle; Cash App breach; FBI removes malware without asking; DOJ, German dark-web takedowns; Google bans data-harvesting software with government ties; it's Opening Day, Orioles fans!
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A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS
IN THE NEWS
America finally gets an Amazon union
Amazon's planned worker chat app would reportedly ban words like 'union'
Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch
TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app
Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform
Elon Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter
Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors
Twitter confirms it will test an edit button
Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web
Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet
MEDIA CANDY
The entire ‘Next Generation’ cast will appear in 'Star Trek: Picard' season three
The latest ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ trailer promises a return to form
FFS. "Star Trek gets into NFTs"
'Somebody Feed Phil' Season 5 Release Date Announced at Netflix
SECURITY HAH!
Cash App breach impacted over 8 million users
Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them
DOJ seizes $34 million of crypto from the dark web seller
Germany seizes the world's largest, longest-serving dark web market
Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software
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