Meta Platforms was hit with privacy complaints on Thursday as eight EU consumer groups asked watchdogs to act against the Facebook owner for alleged breaches of the bloc’s privacy rules when it collects user data.The complaints by consumer groups in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain to data protection authorities in their countries add to previous grievances over Meta’s trove of user data.The consumer bodies said Meta is not complying with General Data Protect ...

The US Federal Aviation Administration has demanded that Boeing develop “a comprehensive action plan to address its systemic quality-control issues” within 90 days.The FAA’s harsh crackdown on the aircraft manufacturer comes nearly two months after Boeing’s 737 Max 9 plane was involved in a midair door blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight last month although, luckily, no one was sitting next to the door that blew off.The US Justice Department, meanwhile, is still investigating the incident, deciding whether ...

Google on Wednesday was slapped with a $2.3 billion lawsuit by media giant Axel Springer and 31 other publishers, alleging that they suffered heavy losses due to the search giant’s practices in digital advertising.The move by the group — which include publishers in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden — comes as Europe’s antitrust regulators crack down on Google’s ad tech business. The tech giant also faces a ...

Elon Musk posted a saluting emoji and an image of a cigarette to mark the demise of Apple’s electric car project.The Tesla CEO reacted to the iPhone maker’s decision to discontinue its secretive “Project Titan” which had been working on creating an electric car for the better part of a decade.“The natural state of a car company is dead,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). 3 Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacted on Tuesday to Apple’s decision to kill its electric car project. REUT ...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has spent millions of dollars quietly buying up roughly 600 acres of green landscapes in Waimea, Hawaii.Since the year 2000, a bigtime tech billionaire purchased at least 38 parcels of land in the small agricultural town on Hawaii’s Big Island, which boasts a population of less than 10,000. Inventory is already low in Waimea, so news of the real-estate purchases worried residents — many of which are Native Hawaiian — about rising housing costs and the loss of the tightknit commun ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai blasted the Gemini AI chatbot’s widely panned habit of generating “woke” versions of historical figures as “completely unacceptable” in a scathing email to company employees.Pichai said Google’s AI teams are “working around the clock” to fix Gemini – which was disabled last week after the “absurdly woke” chatbot ignited a social media firestorm with bizarrely revisionist pictures such as Black Vikings, female popes, and even “diverse” Nazi-era German soldiers.“I know that some of it ...

He’s lovin’ it. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a Japanese McDonald’s a rave review, suggesting the fast food spot be awarded a Michelin star during a business trip that featured an awkward sword-making class.The big tech bigwig dined at the Golden Arches with his wife and shared his praise in a Tuesday Instagram post. “Japanese McDonald’s: 10/10. Give these guys a Michelin star,” Zuckerberg said in reference to one of the highest accolades bestowed upon restaurants. 3 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg praised a Ja ...

The Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth Group, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.Investigators have in recent weeks been interviewing healthcare industry representatives in sectors where UnitedHealth competes, including doctor groups, the report said.During their interviews, investigators have asked about issues including certain relationships between the company’s UnitedHealthcare insurance unit and its Optum hea ...

Apple is abandoning its decade-long effort to build an electric car in favor of ramping up efforts on its generative AI projects, according to a report.Apple announced the plans internally on Tuesday, sources told Bloomberg, rattling its nearly 2,000 staffers working on the self-driving vehicle, which was initially intended to launch sometime in 2026.The decision was shared by Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a vice president overseeing the effort, the people told Bloomberg, asking not ...

A federal judge joined critics in questioning Google’s controversial $700 million settlement with all 50 US states over anticompetitive Android app store practices – pointing out it would only provide small cash payouts to consumers and could protect the company from future lawsuits.US District Judge James Donato described the Google deal, which would give as little as $2 per eligible user covered in the suit and also included a set of time-limited changes to its app store practices, as “a bag of not great” ...