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One of Jason Dalton's last passengers alleges he tried and failed to get Uber to deactivate the driver, who said the app made him a "puppet," before the killings.

The developer behind FlickType, an Apple Watch keyboard, alleges the company used its power over the App Store to stymie its progress.

Apple is facing a new class-action lawsuit in the United States that accuses it of false or deceptive marketing for the M1-powered MacBook Pro and...

They want the platform to crack down on Big Oil and Gas.

“Cars create way more value in the world than they destroyed. And I think social media is similar” Instagram boss @mosseri on WSJ piece re: IG research that suggests the app can be harmful to its teenage users. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recode-media/id1080467174?i=1000535489497

Critics say Apple is not keeping its promise to hold fast when faced with government pressure.

The report looked at internal Facebook documents

Report blames Facebook’s prioritization of engagement over all else.

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. In many instances Facebook’s response is inadequate or nothing at all.

Rocked by weeks of scandal, Facebook's billionaire CEO wants you to know that when he rides a surfboard, “I'm pumping with my own legs.”

The company allegedly agreed to overpay on the original $106 million penalty so its CEO and COO could avoid deposition and personal liability.

Senators at a recent hearing were supposed to wade into questions about Big Data’s effect competition. Instead, their vitriol at Facebook following damaging reports in the Wall Street Journal was almost unending.

Facebook called the requests overly broad.

It’s about to test just how powerful its sway might be

Eight leaked training videos show how Apple instructs its repair partners to buy expensive parts when cheap ones will do.

With today's fixes, I have 17(!!) cases with Apple, where the reward wasn't even decided in the Apple Security Bounty program. Some of these pending since the release of Big Sur 11.0.1. #apple #asb

Since Apple started their Apple Security Bounty program I have submitted around 50 cases to their product security team. I thought I will share my experiences working with Apple in the past 2 years. This will be useful to anyone thinking about participating in the program, and will help setting up expectations. Beyond Apple I do bug bounties also in other programs, like HackerOne, BugCrowd, VCP, ZDI or sometimes just working directly with vendors, so I have a good pool of other cases I can compare to.

This article is about how I found a vulnerability on Apple forgot password endpoint that allowed me to takeover an iCloud account. The vulnerability is completely patched by Apple security team and it no longer works. Apple Security Team rewarded me $18,000 USD as a part of their bounty program but I refused to receive […]

Apple's bug bounty program was launched to great fanfare in 2016, but security researchers are frustrated with the program.

Conversations with 11 former and current ERG members, a union organizer and a labor lawyer paint a complex picture of employee resource groups at tech companies.

The PR push comes days ahead of a Senate hearing

Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.

The company has to compete with Snapchat and TikTok.

The NLRB found they were retaliated against

There are two PDFs of annotated research.

Following permanent bans of 600 Chinese brands.

Blue Origin faces a protest from inside.

Another bug-bounty boondoggle leads to public disclosure before the bug is fixed.

Apple’s “Lost Mode” allows a user to mark their Airtag as missing if they have misplaced it. This generates a unique…

Employees want to be heard. Does the company want to listen?

Post-Apple, when I started my own company, Inkling, I chose radical openness and transparency.

Credit score apps such as Credit Karma and Credit Sesame aren't reliable, have unnecessary charges, and pose privacy risks, a Consumer Reports investigation finds.

The whistleblower made numerous bombshell allegations to 60 Minutes

Internal evidence shared by former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen shows Facebook has known — but ignored — the harm it causes.

Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea

Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.

This sounds plausible... Operators' worst nightmare... https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/q181fv/looks_like_facebook_is_down/

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told senators that Facebook shouldn’t be broken up, but its problems are a direct consequence of its size.

Smears didn’t work for Big Tobacco, but Facebook’s trotting them out anyway.

Employees cite cultural problems in the health division.

Another case involving racism at Tesla’s factories

Yelp VP Luther Lowe could be compelled to turn over private documents

Zuckerberg defends his company from whistleblower

The Dutch antitrust authority has found that Apple’s rules requiring software developers to use its in-app payment system are anti-competitive and ordered it to make changes, four people familiar with the matter said, in the latest regulatory setback for the iPhone maker.

“If you’re prepared you’re more powerful,” Ozoma says.

Now, it’s Congress’ job to fix it.

It almost seemed inevitable.

Facebook can’t allow users to opt-out of the News Feed

Motoi Okamoto was a member of Shigeru Miyamoto's Entertainment Analysis and Development department for a decade. He recounts the making of many of Nintendo's be