2025-01-10

Skate City: New York is a mobile game that manuals the line between casual and deep play

Skate City was an Apple Arcade launch title way back in 2019, developed by Agens and published by Snowman, a company well-known for its mobile-first games like Alto's Adventure, the "sequel& [...]

2025-01-08

Devices with strong cybersecurity can now apply for a government seal of approval

In summer 2023, the Biden administration announced its plan to certify devices with a logo indicating powerful cybersecurity. Now, as Biden navigates his last couple weeks in office, the White House h [...]

2024-12-30

The US Treasury Department says it was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack

Documents and workstations at the US Treasury Department were accessed during a cyberattack, The New York Times reports. The attack was linked to a "China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Thr [...]

2025-03-04

CFPB drops Zelle lawsuit in latest reversal under Trump administration

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped its lawsuit over peer-to-peer payment system Zelle, the latest in a series of dismissals from this department under President Donald Trump's a [...]

2025-02-25

DoorDash to settle New York lawsuit over misleading tipping practices by paying $17 million

DoorDash has reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General over an old practice wherein the company used customers' tips to subsidize its drivers' pay. As the office of New York AG [...]

2025-01-16

CFPB fines Block $175m over Cash App's lax fraud controls

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that's it's fining Block, the creator of Cash App and parent company of Square, $120 million in "refunds and redress" [...]

2025-02-10

New York metro transit systems add on-demand sign language interpreters

It’s a classic New York experience. You’re riding the subway to work, and suddenly the train stops. The lights go off, and you seem to be trapped between stations in a tunnel. For many New Yorkers [...]

2025-01-31

Uber files racketeering suit against New York groups alleging car crash fraud

Uber has filed a racketeering suit against a group of legal firms and medical professionals, claiming they staged car crashes and performed unnecessary surgeries to commit insurance fraud, Bloomberg r [...]

2025-02-13

Major publishers sue AI startup Cohere over copyright infringement

Major publishers, including Politico and Vox, and their parent companies are suing the AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is another [...]