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Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
A chapter of internet history has come to a close. One of the cybercriminals behind 2020’s major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O’Connor (AKA “PlugwalkJoe”), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pleaded guilty to seven charges associated with the digital attack. He was arrested in Spain in…
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TikTok’s #2 Exec Bails as Company Fights for Its Life
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas, the long-time face of the company’s US operations, is calling it quits. The top executive revealed their resignation in an email to staff Thursday saying the “time is right to move on and refocus.” Their departure comes at a time of extreme uncertainty at the company, with lawmakers at…
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Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda
Twitter ran ads from household-name brands like Disney, Microsoft, and The Telegraph newspaper alongside neo-Nazi propaganda this week. Family-friendly media conglomerates, tech giants, and legacy newspapers running ads on social media platforms may try to do so with some confidence their names won’t appear plastered next to racist, hateful imagery, but that’s far from guaranteed…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From LG’s colour-changing fridge to music labels suing Twitter, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.