New Mexico is continuing to seek changes from Meta following a jury’s decision to hold the company liable for failing to safeguard children on its platforms, Attorney General Raúl Torrez told CNBC on Wednesday. “We’re going to be asking for injunctive relief,” Torrez said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the next phase of the trial…
FILE PHOTO: Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of late Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a rally in Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. Hamid Forootan | Via Reuters Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was subscribed to X Premium on his English-language account as of Tuesday, despite the Elon Musk-owned company’s…
A New Mexico state court jury on Tuesday held Meta liable for nearly $400 million in civil damages after a trial where the state attorney general accused the Facebook and Instagram operator of failing to safeguard kids who use its apps from child predators. The civil trial, which began with opening arguments in Santa Fe…
Elon Musk arrives at federal court on March 4, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Josh Edelson | Getty Images A jury in California found that Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders during the runup to his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, according to a verdict issued on Friday. Total damages could reach up…
Hugh Jackman may have hung up his Wolverine claws, at least for now, but the inspirational Aussie is still showing his super-powers in the gym, as evidenced by a recent successful quest: completing the Invisible Pullup Challenge. Sharing the feat via his Instagram reels, Jackman’s 30 million-plus IG followers got to see the muscular movie…
After an extended delay in selling into the world’s second-largest economy, chipmaker Nvidia is gearing up to provide some customers in China with its H200 processors, CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday. “We have received purchase orders, and we’re in the process of restarting our manufacturing,” Huang told reporters at the company’s GTC conference in…
There are several possible explanations for this: perhaps Trump is already tired of the war and finds weeks-old interviews from the book tour of the Democratic governor of California more interesting. Or perhaps he’s worried that, after years of promising to avoid the stupid and unnecessary entanglements of past American leaders in the Middle East,…
Photo: Jaromir Chalabala / Getty U.K. regulators are calling on social media giants to enforce stricter protection for children on their platforms after a blanket ban for under-16s was rejected by lawmakers. Online safety organizations Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office said they had written to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat on Thursday, urging…
A technician gets cabling out of his truck to install Google Fiber. George Frey | Reuters Google said its fiber internet unit called GFiber is combining with Astound Broadband and forming an independent provider, with Google remaining as a minority shareholder. The new company will be majority owned by investment firm Stonepeak and led by…
Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing…