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A "caring" teenager who hacked a woman's Snapchat account and threatened her friends with nude photos was sentenced to  two years in prison.   18-year-old Jasin Bushi from December 2020 to last year Over February, it "completely compromised" the victims' privacy by hacking  at least seven women's accounts  and changing and locking their passwords.   Then the 18-year-old boy pretended to be a victim and sent a message to his friend to pay the rent so that he would not be evacuated, from £ 200 he demanded £ 300.   Some  friends noticed something was wrong and called him, but the teenager then took all the nude photos of the victim  unless money was credited to his PayPal account. Threatened to send to your contact information.   Intimate images and videos of the victim have been published multiple times and viewed by  family, friends and colleagues.   Samurai denied publishing them, and  the judge admitted. ‘I couldn’t face the people who have seen those p

  A Texas jury has ordered Charter Communications to pay $7 billion in punitive damages to the family of an 83-year-old woman who was murdered in her home by a Spectrum cable technician. A Dallas County Court jury returned a $7 billion verdict on Tuesday after previously finding Charter liable for $337.5 million in  damages.   judges can reduce damages. Charter says she should not be held responsible for her murder and  plans to appeal. A jury that determined Charter's negligence was the leading cause of death early in the case reportedly reached a $7 billion verdict after deliberating for less than two hours. Chris Hamilton, one of    Family's attorneys, said in a press release on Tuesday, "This was a shocking betrayal of trust by a company that sends workers to millions of homes each year." The jury in this case was thoughtful and attentive to the evidence, and the verdict correctly reflected the extensive evidence of the nature of the damage caused by Charter Spect

When Blake Lemoin worked  as an engineer at Google, he was tasked with testing the robots the company was developing for prejudice.   Lemoine finds his work in the company's responsible AI department (a department within Google Research investigating accessibility, the use of AI for social purposes, AI ethics, etc.) has taken his path. did not.   He  recently headlined the controversial belief that Google's AI chatbots are perceptual. The bot, called LaMDA, stands for Language Models in Dialogue Applications and was hired by Lemoine to test it.   After publishing an excerpt of a conversation with a bot trained to mimic a human-like conversation, Remoin claimed that Google and its technology were involved in the case of religious discrimination. Not submitted to US Senator.   The day after Google said it had violated the company's confidentiality obligations, he was suspended and the company confirmed with insiders and refused to comment further on the violation.   On Friday

  The city of St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada, was hit by a ransomware attack that  locked employees from internal systems and encrypted data.   A small town of about 7,500 people seems to be the latest target of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. On July 22, a post on LockBit's dark website listed townofstmarys.com as a ransomware victim  and previewed  stolen and encrypted files. On a    phone call, St. Mary's Mayor Alstrasdi told The Verge that the city had deployed a team of experts to respond to the attack.   "Honestly, we're a little shocked," said Strathdy. "It feels bad to be targeted, but the experts we hired have identified  the threat  and taught us  how to respond. Police are interested in the case and are allocating resources. ... people are working here 24/7. Whatever they have so far. According to Strathdee, the Government of Canada's cybersecurity guidelines generally discourage ransom payments. However, the city said it  would follow

When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, there were a few concerns that the company was planning to dominate the nascent metaverse — but there`s one aggrieved party that`s only now going public.   An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) announced Tuesday that it will be suing Meta (or Facebook) for trademark violation, alleging that Zuckerberg`s name change violated the smaller company`s established brand.   “On October 28, 2021, Facebook seized our META mark and name, which we put our blood, sweat, and tears into building for over twelve years,” reads a post on the smaller company`s site. “Today, after eight months of trying to negotiate with Facebook in good faith to no avail, we were left with no choice but to file a lawsuit against them.”   Much of the case hinges on Facebook`s many privacy scandals, which Meta.is argues has made it impossible to share the name. “Meta can no longer provide goods and services under the META mark,” the complaint argues, “becaus

  Cleartrip, one of the most popular travel booking platforms in India,  confirmed a data breach after hackers claimed to publish the stolen data on the dark web.   In response to a request for comment from TechCrunch based on advice from a security researcher, Cleartrip said it is taking legal action against  hackers.   "We have identified a security anomaly in some of our internal systems," a Cleartrip spokesperson told TechCrunch in a prepared statement. (The spokesman did not give his name.) "Our information security team is  investigating the matter in conjunction with a leading third-party forensics service provider and is taking the necessary actions. Appropriate legal action and remedies will be considered and action taken in accordance with the law.”   The exact details of the stolen data  and whether the data is  sensitive in nature  are not immediately known.   Security researcher Sunny Nehra told TechCrunch Monday morning about the data breach. The researcher

  Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday. But Twitter's board chairman Bret Taylor said the company is still committed to closing the deal at the agreed-upon price and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement. "We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery," Taylor wrote. Twitter shares were down about 6% after hours on Friday. In the letter, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler charged that "Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations." Ringler claimed that Twitter did not provide Musk with relevant business information he requested, as Ringler said the contract would require. Musk has previously said he wanted to assess Twitter's claims that about 5% of its monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) are spam accounts. "Tw

One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to boot the popular video-sharing platform TikTok from their app stores citing "its pattern of surreptitious data practices."   "It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing`s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data," Brendan Carr, a Republican member of the FCC, wrote in a letter to Apple and Google's chief executives.   TikTok, in September 2021, disclosed that there are one billion people who use its app every month, making it one of the largest social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, and WeChat.   Carr further emphasized that the short-form video service is far from just an app for sharing funny videos or memes, calling out its features as "sheep's clothing" intended to mask its core function as a