Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Roblox over alleged child safety lapses

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing it of ignoring state and federal safety laws. In his announcement on X, Paxton said the children have been “repeatedly [...]

Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle data privacy violation lawsuits

Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of violating its residents' data privacy rights. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Goog [...]

Texas sues five TV manufacturers over predatory ad-targeting spyware

Behold: Ken Paxton will now demonstrate that broken clocks are indeed right twice a day. The Texas Attorney General is notorious for, well, a very long list of reasons. But in this case, he at least a [...]

Texas AG sues TP-Link over purported connection to China

Texas is suing Wi-Fi router maker TP-Link for deceptively marketing the security of its products and allowing Chinese hacking groups to access Americans' devices, Attorney General Ken Paxton has [...]

The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury

Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook in 2011 when it was very much in its “move fast and break things” era. A former United Nations diplomat, she had aspirations of helping Facebook boost its stand [...]

Doctor Who ‘The Robot Revolution’ review: Meet Belinda Chandra

Spoilers for “The Robot Revolution.”<br /> The start of any season of Doctor Who is important, doubly so when there’s a new co-star to introduce. “The Robot Revolution” has to get us t [...]

Doctor Who “Wish World” review: The Last of the Time Lords (redux)

Spoilers for “Wish World.”<br /> Even the most daring artists, those that actively seek reinvention on a regular basis, will eventually wind up repeating themselves. If they’re lucky and s [...]

‘AI is tearing companies apart’: Writer AI CEO slams Fortune 500 leaders for mismanaging tech

May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives [...]

Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores

Texas is the latest state to adopt an age-verification law for app stores. Despite lobbying from big tech, reportedly including a personal call from Apple CEO Tim Cook, Governor Greg Abbott has signed [...]