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Utah AG Accuses TikTok of Knowing Minors Were Being Groomed on ‘Live’
Gizmodo,
The lawsuit also alleges TikTok Live facilitated money laundering, drugs sales, and terrorism.
The Year Ahead in TV
Netflix's Stranger Things and Disney+ Star Wars series Andor return for their final seasons—but first, Apple TV+'s Severance kicks off 2025's must-see genre shows.
What Money Can’t Buy
The Cut,
Jocelyne Wildenstein and her husband, Alec, scion of the world’s richest art family, believed that beauty was for sale. Now the bill has come due.
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
The New Yorker,
Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
The songwriter and performer on her journey from pop music to theatre, with a live performance of “Gravity.”
Big Potato under fire: how 4 suppliers raised prices in suspicious lockstep
Boing Boing,
When Washington D.C. bar owner Josh Saltzman had the audacity to question four major potato suppliers' perfectly synchronized $0.12 price hike by Tweeting "Totally not collusion or anything, right?" he revealed himself as yet another victim of dangerous consumer-rights propaganda. What's next, Mr. — Read the rest The post Big Potato under fire: how 4 suppliers raised prices in suspicious lockstep appeared first on Boing Boing.
Coastguard rescues real dummy from UK sea
Someone spotted a body floating in the sea off the coast of Cleveleys, Lancashire, UK, prompting a daring coastguard rescue. The team executed a tethered rescue, in which the rescuer is connected to a fixed line to provide stability and control while saving someone in dangerous conditions such as rough waters. — Read the rest The post Coastguard rescues real dummy from UK sea appeared first on Boing Boing.
FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising
TechCrunch,
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined accessiBe, a startup that claims to make websites more compatible with the screen readers blind people rely on to access the internet, for false advertising and compensating reviewers without disclosing that it sponsored the reviews. In a proposed order, the FTC would require accessiBe to pay $1 million that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.