The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday told carriers to stop delivering those annoying auto warranty robocalls and said it has launched a formal investigation.
Why it matters: The scam has resulted in more than 8 billion unwanted and possibly illegal phone calls. It has been the top consumer robocall complaint for the past two years.
GameStop chief financial officer Mike Recupero is headed for the exit, and the gaming giant will lay off "a number of" employees as it strives for "sustained profitability," CEO Matt Furlong wrote in a memo to employees obtained by Axios.
Why it matters: Furlong said the move is aimed at reducing costs and shifting toward an "intense owner's mentality" for the failing-business-turned-meme-stock. GameStop has been hemorrhaging cash while promising better days ahead.
Narratives have driven the cryptocurrency news cycle for years, and today's overriding theme is not in dispute — things are bad in crypto. Real bad.
Driving the news: But with a crash comes inevitable headlines of doom. And according to fresh data on the industry from a Morning Consult survey released today, crypto investors may be the least likely to agree with them.
Voyager Digital's customers woke up to an email breaking the news of its bankruptcy filing: It would be a very long time, if at all, before they could access the crypto held in their accounts.
Why it matters: The crypto lender's customer growth spiked during the pandemic, jumping from 120,000 to over 3.5 million between 2020 and 2022, according to Voyager.
In announcing a new "lockdown mode" for iPhones, iPads and Macs, Apple has proved that it's possible to protect devices against even the most sophisticated attacks — but at a high cost in ease of use.
Why it matters: Product design is all about tradeoffs, and tech companies are always trying to navigate them amid a cacophony of voices demanding they prioritize privacy, or security, or simplicity, or other concerns.
TikTok is facing a renewed round of bipartisan alarms over how fully it protects U.S. users' data from the Chinese government.
Why it matters: The short-video network survived a death sentence from former president Donald Trump and has grown into an increasingly influential social-media channel. But its rise has been dogged from the start by questions around its ownership by a Chinese parent company.
State-sponsored hackers from North Korea have been targeting health care organizations, a group of federal agencies warned on Wednesday.
Driving the news: The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Treasury Department issued a joint advisory, warning that these cyber actors have been targeting health care organizations with ransomware — a type of computer code that encrypts a computer's files and renders them unusable until a ransom is paid.
Amazon is keeping close tabs on grocery delivery companies.
Why it matters: The digital behemoth stands to benefit from expanding its stronghold on consumers while waiting out a volatile time for services dependent delivery workers.
Domestic U.S. and British security heads warned business leaders Wednesday about Chinese government spying aimed at stealing intellectual property from Western tech companies.
Driving the news: FBI director Christopher Wray and MI5 director-general Ken McCallum appeared together at MI5 headquarters in the U.K. to warn of espionage campaigns from Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Apple is adding a special "lockdown" mode designed for people such as dissidents, journalists or human rights workers who could become the targets of high-end spyware, such as NSO Group's Pegasus.
Why it matters: The new option, coming to Macs, iPads and iPhones with this year's fall software update, could make it much harder for attackers to access such phones, but at the expense of a considerable amount of functionality.
NBA 2K23 will break a new barrier in gaming by having two WNBA athletes on the cover for the first time, Diana Taurasi told Axios in an interview last month.
Driving the news: WNBA starsTaurasi and Sue Bird will grace the cover of the WNBA edition of 2K23 opposite Michael Jordan, who will be one of two cover athletes for the regular edition of the game, 2K announced Wednesday.
TikTok and Instagram influencers are increasingly transforming the way readers find the next great read by writers of color.
The big picture: Worldwide book sales grew during the pandemic. BookTok and Bookstagram — the monikers and hashtags for reading accounts and posts on social media — are major drivers, according to analysts and publishers.
Authentic Brands Group and Bolt Financial on Wednesday said that they've settled the breach of contract lawsuit brought by ABG earlier this year.
Why it matters: The e-commerce market is too challenged right now for strategic partners to be fighting each other, rather than trying to protect their businesses.
Facebook parent Meta says an updated version of its machine-learning-based language translation engine can now handle 200 languages.
Why it matters: In a world that is increasingly online, many people are excluded from important information resources because of limited translation availability.
Final European Parliament approval of sweeping, stringent tech regulations Tuesday put European regulators and tech-platform giants on a slow but inevitable collision course.
Driving the news: Europe's two new laws — the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) — place tough constraints on how big tech standard-bearers like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta handle competition and online content.
As states across the U.S. pass restrictive abortion laws with cutoffs as tight as six weeks, early pregnancy detection could give people more time to make the right choice for them.
Yes, but: Early home pregnancy testing tech is limited by human biology.
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