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He got an unexplained $250,000 payment from Google. The company says it was a mistake

Sam Curry, a self-described hacker, was puzzled by the payment. A Google spokesperson says the company paid "the wrong party as the result of human error" and was working to correct it.

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Dallas ranks No. 1 for infidelity, new index says. A former ‘Cheaters’ host has theories

DALLAS -- A U.K.-based dating website has crunched the data and determined that Texas has an inordinate amount of cities in its Infidelity Index.

Tribune News Service

Fudging reality: Of fake profiles and platform gaming

How an innocuous profile led Baid down a digital rabbit hole of fake profiles and gaming of platforms like IMDb

The Hindu

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The game no one’s talking about: Internet manipulation is on the rise in India

There’s an uptick in internet manipulation in India, with people faking profiles and tricking the search algorithm to get IMDb credits and Google knowledge panels. Filmmakers, screenwriters and casting directors speak to the Magazine on whether this is a worrying trend

The Hindu

Google, Meta Face Record Fines in South Korea over Privacy Violations

South Korea has fined Google and Meta more than $71 million collectively for gathering users' personal information without consent for tailored ads, regulators said Wednesday, the country's highest-ever data protection fines. Investigations into the two US tech giants found they had been "collecting and analyzing" data on their users, and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

TikTok Search Results Rife with Misinformation

TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a report released Wednesday. Toxicity and false claims are a "significant threat" at TikTok, which is becoming a go-to online venue for young people to search for…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pixelbook: Google exits the laptop market

Big G sends the Pixelbook to the gadget graveyard

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Saudi Arabia to Establish World's First ‘Sustainability Center’ Using AI

The Saudi Deputy Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Mansour bin Hilal Al-Mushaiti revealed that Google has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia to help implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) sustainable solutions and cutting-edge technologies in the Kingdom. The Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA), in partnership with the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

It's hard to imagine better social media alternatives, but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible

Last week, the US government released six principles for reforming Big Tech. It’s the latest example of growing efforts to regulate the handful of companies with enormous influence over the internet. But while there’s a growing appetite for a new, better kind of internet, it’s hard to imagine what that…

The Conversation

How the tide turned on data centres in Europe

PARIS: Every time we make a call on Zoom, upload a document to the cloud or stream a video, our computers connect to vast warehouses filled with servers to store or access data.

Bangkok Post

Big Tech antitrust bill finds new support in Mozilla, DuckDuckGo

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act aims to cut down on self-preferencing and privacy violations.

Input

France caps energy bills again amid price surge

The French government is extending its energy aid for households and businesses. Price hikes for electricity and gas bills will be capped at 15 percent and low-income families will receive direct payments of €100 to €200 each. Also in the show: Google loses an appeal over a €4.3 billion EU…

France 24

Big Tech Analyst Sees Choppy Waters Ahead, But Says You Can Buy Apple, Meta Right Now: 'TikTok Eventually Is Going To Get Banned'

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta shedded nearly $500 billion in combined market cap during Tuesday's selloff.

Benzinga

Two Welsh valleys are now the latest house price hot spots

And the capital has sunk to the bottom of the list

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TikTok riddled with 'misleading information about Covid, Russia and climate change'

TikTik said it did 'not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform'

Benzinga

Wen Merge? When The Ethereum Merge Will Likely Happen — And What It Means For The Cryptocurrency

The highly anticipated Ethereum merge is expected to occur in the early hours of Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. Here’s a look at exactly when that could happen and what it means.

Daily Mirror

Abandoned Georgian mansion goes viral after Google Maps users notice disturbing detail

The creepy site in Cheshire has been allowed to fall into disrepair and has been uninhabited for decades - and horrifying images left users feeling completely terrified

Evening Standard

Google takes £3.6 billion hit after losing competition court case

Tech giant Google suffered a major blow this morning as it was dealt a 4.1 billion euro (£3.6 billion) fine by a European court for impeding rival search engines on its Android devices.

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Top Financial Stories Wednesday, September 14: Multiple Antitrust Setbacks For Google, Bitcoin Crashes, Visa Finds New Gun Control System Ineffective And More…

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The Independent UK

TikTok search results riddled with misinformation: Report

A U.S. firm that monitors false online claims reports that searches for information about prominent news topics on TikTok are likely to turn up results riddled with misinformation

The Guardian - UK

Google fails to overturn €4bn fine over Android bundling

Europe’s competition commission has imposed €8.25bn in antitrust fines on the company

Benzinga

Google Suffers Another EU Setback As Top Court Rejects Request To Topple $4.3B Dominance-Abuse Fine

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google suffered its second setback in Europe in less than a year as the European Union’s top court agreed with the bloc’s antitrust regul

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Court Largely Upholds $4Bln Google Android Antitrust Fine

One of the European Union's highest courts has largely upheld the bloc's biggest-ever antitrust fine, issued to Google by the bloc's competition enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system. The European Court of Justice's General Court on Wednesday mostly confirmed a decision by the EU's executive Commission to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

South Korea Fines Google, Meta over Privacy Violations

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won ($72 million) for tracking consumers’ online behavior without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements. South Korea’s Personal Information and Protection Commission said it fined Google 69.2 billion won ($50 million) and Meta 30.8…

The Independent UK

EU court largely upholds $4B Google Android antitrust fine

One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld a huge fine issued to Google by the bloc’s antitrust enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system

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