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TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay four hundred million dollars to settle a Justice Department lawsuit over child privacy violations. The case alleged the platform collected vast amounts of data on millions of users under the age of thirteen — making it one of the largest settlements of its kind in US history.
Shifting to the world of cryptocurrency security, hardware wallet maker Coinkite has rolled out new firmware for its Coldcard device following a one hundred thirty million dollar Bitcoin exploit. The update requires users to introduce their own randomness when generating wallet seeds, a hands-on step designed to reduce reliance on any single source of entropy and close gaps exposed during a three-week security review.
And over on LinkedIn, more than one million people have already used the platform's new quote seems like AI slop button, just days after its launch. The feature lets users flag posts they suspect were generated by artificial intelligence, and its rapid adoption suggests the professional network's audience has grown genuinely tired of machine-written content filling their feeds.
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