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March 4, 2020

Apple to Pay Up to $500M for Throttling iPhones

After two years of litigation, Apple has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it slowed down older iPhones in order to push consumers into buying its later, more expensive models.

Study: YouTube Achieves Some Success at Hobbling Conspiracy Theories

"Our analysis corroborates that YouTube acted upon its policy and significantly reduced the overall volume of recommended conspiratorial content," three researchers wrote in a study the University of California, Berkeley, released Monday.

Shifting Our Global Problem-Solving Focus From Symptoms to Cause

IBM's latest effort to solve global problems has evolved from a focus on catastrophic events, which increasingly are caused by climate change, to climate change itself. It is a huge jump to go from dealing with the symptoms of a problem, which generally is relatively easy, to dealing with the causes, particularly global scale.

Netrunner Linux Still Goes Its Own Way at 'Twenty'

Code-named "Twenty," the 20.01 release is the 20th upgrade of the Netrunner project over its 10-year history. It is packed with the latest KDE desktop packages, new theme tweaks, and a collection of GTK and Qt/KDE programs.

The Dark Art of Turning Mountains of Stolen Data Into Cash

Data breaches have become so common that experts agree it isn't a matter of if, but rather when a company will become a victim. A recovery plan therefore should focus on how to deal with a breach of employee/customer/client data, and how to handle a ransomware attack.

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