CNN – Social Media/Technology

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — YouTube said on Monday that it had removed a video of presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. being interviewed by podcast host Jordan Peterson for violating its policy prohibiting vaccine misinformation. A YouTube spokesperson told CNN that the platform removed the video from Peterson’s channel because it

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, is suing Google, alleging the tech giant holds a monopoly over the digital ad market. The publisher of USA Today and more than 200 local publications filed the lawsuit in a New York federal court on Tuesday, and is seeking

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Alibaba is replacing Daniel Zhang as chairman and CEO as the Chinese tech giant undergoes the biggest shakeup in its history. Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman and a co-founder of Alibaba (BABA), will succeed Zhang as chairman, the company said Tuesday. Eddie Wu, chairman of e-commerce unit

By Jennifer Korn (CNN) — Reddit’s month may be going from bad to worse. Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Italy has imposed several curbs on Pirelli’s biggest shareholder, Sinochem, in a move aimed at blocking the Chinese government’s access to sensitive chip technology. The Italian government decided last week to make use of its so-called “Golden Power” regulations, designed to protect assets of strategic importance to the

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Alibaba founder Jack Ma has given his first lecture as a visiting professor to the University of Tokyo, as the high-profile Chinese entrepreneur retreats further from his business empire following a crackdown by Beijing. Ma, who was formerly an English teacher before he became one of China’s

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Facebook-parent Meta plans to lower the minimum age for its virtual reality headsets from 13 years old to 10 years old, despite pressure from lawmakers not to market its VR services to younger users. Parents will be able to set up accounts for children as young as

By Jennifer Korn and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A growing number of businesses, universities and government agencies have been targeted in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals and are now working to understand how much data was compromised. While the scope of the attack is not yet fully known, officials at the US Cybersecurity

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — After nearly a week of mass protests on Reddit directed at its management, the company’s strategy appears to be simple: power through. That approach was reflected Thursday in a series of media interviews conducted by Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman. In the interviews, Huffman defended the company’s initial

By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — At 62, Helen Polise isn’t considering retirement. Not remotely. Her job: TikTok star. Polise’s account “The Muthership” has nearly 1 million followers. She started the account during the pandemic as a distraction and a way to have fun — but soon it became a second career in

CNN By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — At 62, Helen Polise isn’t considering retirement. Not remotely. Her job: TikTok star. Polise’s account “The Muthership” has nearly 1 million followers. She started the account during the pandemic as a distraction and a way to have fun — but soon it became a second career

CNN By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The European Union took a major step Wednesday toward setting rules — the first in the world — on how companies can use artificial intelligence. It’s a bold move that Brussels hopes will pave the way for global standards for a technology used in everything from chatbots

CNN By Samantha Kelly (CNN) — Google wants to make it easier for online shoppers to know how clothing will look on them before making a purchase. The company on Wednesday announced a new virtual try-on feature that uses generative AI, the same technology underpinning a new crop of chatbots and image creation tools, to

CNN, KGO By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former Theranos CEO, has “limited financial means” and should not be forced to pay $250 a month to victims of her crimes after she is released from prison, her lawyers argued in a court filing on Monday. The move from Holmes’ attorneys comes

CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — When Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO from Steve Jobs nearly 12 years ago, some thought the company was already at its peak. Under Cook, however, Apple’s market cap has surged by more than 700% to nearly $3 trillion. Its iPhone business has continued to

CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US Senate is inching forward on a plan to regulate artificial intelligence, after months of seeing how ChatGPT and similar tools stand to supercharge — or disrupt— wide swaths of society. But despite outlining broad contours of the plan, senators are still likely months away from

CNN By David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Your iPhone’s autocorrect is getting a big ducking upgrade. Currently, when you enter a typo or key in an unrecognized word, Apple’s iOS uses some onboard machine learning and references a library of frequent misspellings to automatically correct your mistake. But, as anyone who has ever

CNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users briefly reported issues accessing their email accounts on Monday morning. More than 15,000 users reported issues with Microsoft 365, the web version of the Microsoft Outlook application, according to outage-tracking site DownDetector. Reports of the outage began to tick up at around 10

CNN By Brian Fung, CNN European regulators have approved Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, handing the technology giant a victory at a time when the deal is being challenged in other countries. While the merger could harm competition in some respects, particularly in the fast-growing market for cloud gaming services, concessions by Microsoft

By Jennifer Korn For a few months in 2017, there were rumors that Sam Altman was planning to run for governor of California. Instead, he kept his day job as one of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors and entrepreneurs. But now, Altman is about to make a different kind of political debut. Altman, the CEO