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By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s lawyers are set to question Elon Musk in a deposition that could last up to three day starting Sept. 26 as part of ongoing litigation over their $44 billion acquisition deal, according to a court filing Tuesday. The company’s lawyers will also depose Musk lieutenant Jared

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Regulators have spent years trying to make big tech companies pay for the ways they harvest and, at times, abuse users’ data. One state, meanwhile, is literally making them pay up — and pay out directly to consumers. Illinois is one of just a few states in the United States

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Rockstar Games confirmed on Monday that hackers had leaked some unreleased footage from its next iteration of the wildly popular “Grand Theft Auto” franchise. The video gaming community was rocked by the emergence online of some screenshots and game-play videos purportedly from the highly-anticipated next installment of “Grand Theft Auto,”

By Brian Fung, CNN Uber has linked the cybersecurity incident it disclosed last week to hackers affiliated with the Lapsus$ gang, a group accused of numerous high-profile corporate data breaches. The company also said the attackers were able to download or access company Slack messages and invoice-related data from an internal tool. In a blog

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Most people may live out their digital lives with the assumption they can delete their posts, messages and personal data from services whenever they choose. But a tech hearing this week threw that core assumption into question. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the former security chief at Twitter, told a Senate committee

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman made internet history by stitching together a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis. Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted “: – )” on the school’s online bulletin board, a primitive kind of social network accessible only

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business For anyone prone to typos, sending messages to the wrong person or firing off thoughts they may later regret, there’s now some hope. Apple has delivered on two of its most requested features: the ability to edit and unsend iMessages. This week, Apple released its latest operating system, iOS

By Brian Fung, CNN Business A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a controversial Texas law that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms, setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown while also renewing uncertainties about how tech platforms may operate in the state in the future. The

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business When iPhone 14 users aren’t using their new Apple device, the screen is hardly asleep. It’ll remain lit with prominently displayed widgets such as alarms, calendar appointments and sports scores flittering with real-time updates, and be at the ready if you glance down or inevitably pick it back up.

By Brian Fung, CNN Business When a Twitter whistleblower testified at an explosive Senate hearing this week, the social media company wasn’t the only one to come under fire. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle repeatedly criticized federal regulators who for years had supposedly been keeping a close eye on the company. “I’m concerned

By Brian Fung, CNN A landmark California bill aimed at promoting children’s digital welfare became law on Thursday, as Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he had signed the legislation imposing strict requirements on websites “likely to be accessed” by kids. “We’re taking aggressive action in California to protect the health and wellbeing of our kids,” Newsom

By Brian Fung, CNN UK officials have launched a deeper antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s $68.7 billion purchase of video game giant Activision Blizzard, reflecting concerns that the deal may lead to reduced competition. The second-stage probe comes after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Sept. 1 that the acquisition — which would

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Ethereum, the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, has completed a massive software upgrade that its backers claim will slash its carbon footprint. The long-awaited revamp, which is known as “The Merge,” will reduce ethereum’s energy consumption by nearly 99.95%, according to the Ethereum Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting

By Brian Fung, CNN Business TikTok repeatedly declined to commit to US lawmakers on Wednesday that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US user data to China, instead promising that the outcome of its negotiations with the US government “will satisfy all national security concerns.” Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee,

By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter lacks the resources and motivation to search for and remove foreign intelligence threats within its operations even as it has received warnings of possible spies in its ranks, former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko told lawmakers in his first public appearance since blowing the whistle

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Elon Musk may be fighting tooth-and-nail to get out of his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company’s shareholders plan to hold him to it. The vast majority of Twitter shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal, a value of $54.20 per share.

By Donie O’Sullivan, Brian Fung and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere could result in the service going dark for some of its users. Twitter, like all major

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple on Monday released its next-generation mobile software, iOS 16, with new features that allow users to personalize their iPhone lock screens and change how they text friends through iMessage. Among the most anticipated changes is the ability to edit and unsend recently sent iMessages, or mark the messages