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The file organization system you’ve been finding ways to work around for over a decade is about to be no more. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple is hoping to phase out iTunes in the near future. Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to announce the decision to move away from iTunes as part […]

Apple is being sued by customers who claim that the company sold their iTunes data to third parties.  In a new class-action lawsuit filed on May 24, three iTunes customers claim that Apple violated several states’ privacy laws by selling information on iTunes purchases to other companies. The lawsuit uses the language of an Apple […]

Evaldas Rimasauskas is probably going to prison for a long, log time. The 50-year-old Lithuania native admitted today that he scammed Facebook and Google out of over $100 million. Rimasauskas briefly pulled one over on the tech giants by posing as Taiwanese laptop manufacturer Quanta Computer. He incorporated a business in that name in Lithuania […]

Senators introduced a bill on Thursday that would require companies to get explicit consent from the subjects of photos before they could use them in a set of facial recognition data. The bill was proposed by Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri and Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii following news that IBM collected nearly […]

A concept imagined from an unlikely source, memes have emerged as one of the primary methods of communication on the internet. Whether they’re being shared by your favorite rapper, family member, or politician, memes have permeated pop culture in an almost meta fashion. Anything can become a meme—even people, and if you’re really lucky, becoming […]

We didn’t need hackers to access Facebook users’ private messages—the company reportedly willingly gave it away fo’ free to companies like Spotify and Netflix. This is one of the several troubling tidbits unearthed by a long New York Times piece published on Tuesday about Facebook’s many data-sharing agreements with other tech companies. Internal documents from […]

No matter how many measures you take to protect your personal information, the unfortunate truth is that no computer is truly safe. Any device that connects to the internet is theoretically vulnerable to being hacked, which means everything from your bank account to your credit cards to your social media accounts could be compromised, if your […]