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Flavor Flav is the official hype man for the US women's water polo team in the Paris Olympics ( apnews.com )

To fend off tourists, a town in Japan is building a big screen blocking the view of Mount Fuji ( apnews.com )

The neighborhood suddenly became a popular spot about two years ago, apparently after a photo taken in a particular angle showing Mount Fuji in the background of a local convenience store, became a social media sensation.

The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan ( apnews.com )

Terrorists in sneakers taking selfies...

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog ( apnews.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20120801...

English women's league showdown delayed by teams wearing matching socks ( apnews.com )

Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers ( apnews.com )

Indian police clear a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after 8 months in bird lockup ( apnews.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11443068...

At least 30 journalists, lawyers and activists hacked with Pegasus in Jordan, forensic probe finds ( apnews.com )

No joke: Feds discourage humorous electronic messages on highways ( apnews.com )

Court documents underscore Meta's 'historical reluctance' to protect children on Instagram ( apnews.com )

New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Facebook and Instagram owner Meta in December, saying the company failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and allowed adults to solicit explicit imagery from them....

TikTok restricts tool used by researchers - and its critics - to assess content on its platform ( apnews.com )

Among others, the social media company, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has removed certain hashtags from the Creative Center that some online researchers had stored for analysis. They include topics that would be seen as controversial to the Chinese government – such as “UyghurGenocide” and...

Apple seeks a path to getting 2 of its best watches back on shelves during a bitter patent dispute ( apnews.com )

The saga continues…

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots ( apnews.com )

I wondered how long this would take, and now we know.

New York sues SiriusXM, accusing company of making it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions ( apnews.com )

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed suit Wednesday against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming service of making it intentionally difficult for its customers to cancel their subscriptions....

Adobe calls off $20 billion acquisition of Figma ( apnews.com )

Good

Federal jury decides Google’s Android app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers ( apnews.com )

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case ( apnews.com )

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....

Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country ( apnews.com )

Broadcom planning to complete deal for $69 billion acquisition of VMWare after regulators give OK ( apnews.com )

Company that created ChatGPT is thrown into turmoil after Microsoft hires its ousted CEO ( apnews.com )

TikTok and Meta challenge Europe's new rules that crack down on digital giants ( apnews.com )

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? ( apnews.com )

Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says ( apnews.com )

The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022”...