2024 isn't the first time the Met Gala's pompous affairs have synonymously drawn parallels with The Hunger Games, and it probably won't be the last. The “deplatforming of celebrities” campaign kicked off this week as a clear-cut response to the 2024 Met Gala held on Monday. While the 2024 Oscars witnessed a good number of celebrities voicing their political expression …
X, the platform associated with Elon Musk, has unveiled two innovative features, Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist, aimed at advertisers to enhance their control and safety measures. According to a recent blog post, the Sensitivity Settings are designed to allow advertisers to tailor their brand messaging to match content on the X platform that aligns with their unique sensitivity preferences. …
Microsoft Windows users were in danger of being targeted by hackers, sometimes for years, as the company’s malicious drivers blocklist updates did not work as they should, according to tech media outlet The Verge. Journalists and a cybersecurity professional found that the software company’s hypervisor-protected code integrity, which serves as a defence against malicious drivers, did not protect users as …
An estimated 8,000 people on the Tax Authority's blocklist were wrongly rejected for assistance in paying off their debts, was revealed during a parliamentary debate on Thursday. Earlier this week, the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined the Tax Authority 2.75 million euros for privacy violations in the childcare allowance scandal. According to the AP, the Tax Authority "for years processed …
