Month: June 2023
Google sues alleged scammer over fake business and review scheme
Google is suing an alleged scammer for running an elaborate scheme to flood its search product with fake businesses and reviews. In the complaint filed Friday, Google accuses the defendant, Ethan Hu, of abusing the company’s products “to create fake online listings for businesses that do not exist, and to…
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Windows 10 update is reportedly causing havoc for some users
Windows 10’s latest patch is causing some problems with slow installations, or even complete failures to install, among other more worrying sounding bugs. This is patch KB5027215, which doesn’t do anything except fix some security issues (remember, Windows 10 is not getting any new features from now on, save for…
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Apple’s macOS Sonoma update won’t support your legacy Mail plug-ins
If you plan to upgrade to macOS Sonoma later this year but also happen to make use of legacy Mail plug-ins, you’re going to be in for a bad time. That’s because the update will remove support for those plug-ins for the first time. Plug-ins can be used for a…
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
Reddit is fighting for its soul. Many users are in revolt over API pricing changes that will shut down some of the most popular third-party Reddit apps, and they’re furious at CEO Steve Huffman after last week’s AMA that made it clear the platform wouldn’t budge. Huffman has argued the…
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Reddit says it won’t overrule mods and force subreddits back open
“We are not shutting down discussions or unilaterally reopening communities,” reads a line from a “Reddit API Fact Sheet” that the company shared with The Verge. In our interview, Huffman told us that he sees Reddit as a “democratic living organism created by its users.” “Every once in a while…
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Dish says it met its FCC deadline to cover 70 percent of the US population
According to Dish Network, things at Dish are going great. Yesterday marked its second FCC coverage deadline since it bought Boost from T-Mobile, and the company issued a press release today stating that it now covers 70 percent of the US population and has “also satisfied all other June 14, 2023 FCC commitments.”…
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