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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After years of working to build their audiences on OnlyFans, a number of sex workers and adult content creators are now grappling with the sudden blow of potentially losing their incomes and access to the fans who have paid their bills. OnlyFans, a subscription-based website that enables creators to

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Thursday’s decision by the creator platform OnlyFans to soon stop hosting a wide swath of sexually explicit content is sending shockwaves through the internet. OnlyFans, a website with 130 million users and more than 2 million content creators, has become synonymous with pornography. For many, performing on the app is

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Gopuff, a startup that originally launched to offer hookah deliveries for college students and later food deliveries to help satisfy the munchies, is rapidly establishing itself as the future of the on-demand industry. The Philadelphia-based company has announced raising billions of dollars from investors to grow its on-demand delivery

By Steven Jiang and Jill Disis, CNN Business China has passed sweeping new rules about the collection and use of personal data as Beijing toughens its regulation of the country’s tech companies. The Personal Information Protection Law — which was approved Friday by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and which will take

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Elon Musk said Thursday night at Tesla’s AI Day that the company is building a humanoid robot, and will probably have a prototype next year. “It’s basically going to start dealing with work that is boring, repetitive and dangerous,” Musk said of the Tesla robot. “What is the work that

By Rob McLean and Jill Disis, CNN Business OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content starting in October, the company announced Thursday. “In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines,” the company said in a statement,

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The Federal Trade Commission renewed its bid to break up Facebook on Thursday by filing an amended complaint in federal court alleging the tech giant has monopolized social media and harmed competition. The new complaint comes nearly two months after a federal judge tossed out the original complaint, arguing that

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business For those who don’t think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you’re sitting around a table in a conference room. On Thursday, Facebook unveiled Horizon Workrooms, a free app

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s crackdown on private business has taken a new, more intrusive turn with government plans to dictate how live-stream shopping influencers speak and dress. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday outlined proposals for an “industry standard” for live-streamers who market products on online shopping platforms. The rules include details

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Facebook on Wednesday announced that it had taken action against the so-called “disinformation dozen,” one month after the White House singled out the twelve people and argued that they were responsible for a majority of coronavirus misinformation. In making the announcement, Monika Bickert, vice president of content policy at Facebook,

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla’s Autopilot feature could soon face its second federal probe of the month. The automaker’s driver-assist and traffic-aware cruise control features are already under investigation by federal safety regulators for their role in a series of crashes. On Wednesday Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Edward Markey of Massachusetts asked

By Brian Fung, CNN Business After years of accusations that it’s helped spread misinformation, Twitter is finally giving users an easy way to report misleading tweets. But don’t expect anything to happen right away because of it. Twitter users in some countries, including the United States, will now be able to report tweets to the

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business It’s been two days since Kabul fell to the Taliban and social media giants are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the takeover of Afghanistan by the militants. On Tuesday, Facebook reiterated its ban on accounts praising, supporting, or representing the Taliban from its platforms, including WhatsApp and

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business In early August, Apple announced a major new program designed to help combat child exploitation and promote safety, issues the tech community has increasingly embraced. It was a presentation big on intent but light on the details. What followed — outraged tweets, critical headlines and an outcry for more

By Brian Fung, CNN Business T-Mobile confirmed on Monday that it has been hit by a data breach but declined to say whether any personal information from customers was accessed or how widespread the damage may be. The company’s acknowledgement of a breach comes after hackers told Vice that they were selling “full customer info”

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The ransomware attack that forced Colonial Pipeline, one of the largest fuel pipelines in the United States, to go offline this spring also compromised the personal information of nearly 6,000 individuals, a company spokesperson told CNN Business. The pipeline operator has begun sending data breach notification letters to the 5,810

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Don’t expect any 200 mph trains that rival Europe and Asia’s best, or even cheaper fares. Transportation experts think the infrastructure bill could be the start of a turning point for the disadvantaged state of US rail travel. But the bill doesn’t change the fallout of Americans looking past rail

By Brian Fung, CNN Business An anonymous hacker who stole more than $600 million from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network this week has returned virtually all of the money — and apparently turned down a half-million-dollar reward offered by the company for exposing its security vulnerability. The bizarre outcome caps off an unusual cryptocurrency

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Starting any business is full of challenges. Starting one in the middle of a global pandemic is on a whole other level. That reality didn’t stop serial entrepreneur Rami Essaid from starting Finmark last June, but it did force him to take a different approach. Essaid, who said he “believed

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Facebook is the latest tech company to delay its employees’ return to the office until next year as the Delta variant wreaks havoc on reopening plans around the country. “Data, not dates, is what drives our approach for returning to the office,” Facebook spokesperson Chloe Meyere said in a statement.

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The potential antitrust breakup of Facebook’s digital media empire could start with GIFs. Facebook could soon be required to spin off Giphy in response to concerns by UK regulators, and give up control of that company’s massive library of GIFs — the animated images used by millions to express emotions

By Manveena Suri, Diksha Madhok and Meenketan Jha, CNN Business India’s main opposition party is accusing Twitter of stifling freedom of speech after the company took action against hundreds of tweets that identified the family of a child who was allegedly raped and murdered. Twitter’s decision followed a call from India’s child protection agency to

By Brian Fung, CNN Business A new Senate bill targeting US app stores seeks to rein in the power of tech giants such as Apple and Google by banning restrictions on app developers. The proposed bipartisan legislation by Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar and Marsha Blackburn would outlaw certain contractual obligations that app developers say

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Accenture, the global consulting firm, has been hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, according to the cybercriminal group’s website. Accenture’s encrypted files will be published by the group on the dark web on Wednesday unless the company pays the ransom, LockBit claimed, according to screenshots of the website reviewed by

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Samsung is still betting on a future where smartphones fold in half. But first it must convince users that’s a future they want. At its annual Unpacked event on Wednesday, Samsung will focus on its foldable smartphones instead of its flagship Note devices — despite lackluster sales for foldable

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry’s history. A vulnerability in Poly Network allowed the thief to make off with the funds, the platform said Tuesday, begging the attacker to return

By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has been suspended from YouTube for seven days over a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19, according to a YouTube spokesperson. “This resulted in a first strike on the channel, which means it can’t upload content for a week, per our