technology

Microsoft cuts 10,000 jobs globally, about 5 percent of workforce

By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press

Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, as it joins other tech companies in a scaling back of their pandemic-era expansions.

What to know about the trial starting over Elon Musk’s tweets about Tesla

By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Long before beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the electric automaker where he serves as CEO and from which he derives most of his wealth and fame.

As CES opens, startups face cautious investors amid economic uncertainty

By Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press

More than a thousand startups are showcasing their products at the annual CES tech show in Las Vegas, hoping to create some buzz around their gadgets and capture the eyes of investors.

From electric skates to an AI-powered bird feeder, CES 2023 will showcase latest tech

By Adriana Morga, Haleluya Hadero, Cara Rubinsky, Associated Press

Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show.

European Union fines Facebook parent Meta 390M euros for privacy violations

By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press

European Union regulators have hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity.

Drone advances amid war in Ukraine could bring fighting robots to front lines

By Frank Bajak, Hanna Arhirova, Associated Press

Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a technology trend that could soon bring the world's first fully autonomous robots to the battlefield and inaugurate a new age of warfare.

Twitter Blue unavailable after flood of fake accounts

By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Twitter's relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check "verification" labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month — is unavailable after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts approved by Twitter.

Millions depend on private messaging apps to keep in touch. They’re ripe with misinformation

By Saher Khan, Vignesh Ramachandran

And while social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have come under intense scrutiny for hosting misinformation, private messaging services like Telegram, South Korea’s Kakao, the China-based WeChat and the largest--WhatsApp--have been more difficult to monitor because they host private,…

Facebook grilled by U.K. lawmakers making online safety rules

By Associated Press

Lawmakers pressed Facebook to provide its data to independent researchers who can look at how its products could be harmful. Facebook has said it has privacy concerns about how such data would be shared.

Facebook has struggled to curb divisive content in India

By Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press

Internal company documents on India highlight Facebook's constant struggles in quashing abusive content on its platforms in the world's biggest democracy. Communal and religious tensions in India have a history of boiling over on social media and stoking violence.