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  • Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024
In this March 13, 2019, file photo Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone in New York. A group of 40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts. The AGs called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- 

A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing "deep concern" over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts.

The attorneys general called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers — when malicious actors take a users' accounts, lock them out by changing their passwords, and post their own material, read private messages, scam contacts and engage in other harmful or illegal behavior.

The letter asks Meta to take "immediate action to increase mitigation tactics and respond to users whose accounts have been taken over." It also asks the Menlo Park, California-based company to provide information on the number of account takeovers over the past five years, the suspected causes of the increase in account takeovers and safeguards it has in place.

"Consumers are reporting their utter panic when they first More

  • Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024
Several browser windows display the MAX sign-in and home pages on a computer, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in New York. MAX will start cracking down on people sharing passwords outside their household “starting later this year” and extending into next year, Jean-Briac Perrette, the company's president and CEO of global streaming, said Monday, March 4. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Which streamer will target password sharing next? The former HBO Max appears ready to make its play.

Now simply MAX, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned service will start cracking down on people sharing passwords outside their household "starting later this year" and extending into next year, according to Jean-Briac Perrette, the company's president and CEO of global streaming.

That would bring MAX in line with Netflix and Disney, both of which have taken steps to limit password sharing on their streaming services. Both companies have done so while adjusting prices to make their cheaper ad-supported streaming services more attractive.

Perrette declined to estimate how much money the company expected the crackdown to generate. He made his remarks Monday at a Morgan Stanley technology conference in San Francisco.

  • Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024
The Razorfish Creator Colab leverages best-in-class creators to deliver social strategy, creative content, and analytics that engage consumer audiences (Photo: Business Wire)
NEW YORK -- 

Marketing transformation agency Razorfish has launched the Razorfish Creator Colab, a select team of in-house social strategists developing made-for-platform content. These creators specialize in identifying cultural moments and tapping into them to create experiences that consumers care about.

“This is more than just a creator offering--it’s a cultural-relevancy offering,” said Cristina Lawrence, EVP of consumer and content experience at Razorfish. “To stand out, brands must engage their consumers through experiences that are both meaningful and authentic. The Razorfish Creator Colab seizes the opportunity to build those consumer connections that today’s brands need in order to exist tomorrow.”

The offering has five essential elements:

  • Tapping into trends: Razorfish’s in-house creators are social trendspotters that turn brands into trendsetters. With a pulse on emerging moments (even before they go mainstream), they leverage More
  • Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in the "Technology in a turbulent world" panel discussion during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Elon Musk supported making OpenAI a for-profit company, the ChatGPT maker said, attacking a lawsuit from the wealthy investor who has accused the artificial intelligence business of betraying its founding goal to benefit humanity as it pursued profits instead.

In its first response since the Tesla CEO sued last week, OpenAI vowed to get the claim thrown out and released emails from Musk, escalating the feud between the San Francisco-based company and the billionaire that bankrolled its creation years ago.

"The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits," OpenAI said in a blog post late Tuesday from five company executives and computer scientists, including CEO Sam Altman. "We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon's claims."

AGI refers to artificial general intelligence, which are general purpose AI systems that can More

  • Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) celebrates during Senior Day ceremonies following a victory over Ohio State in an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Cliff Jette)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Caitlin Clark's record-setting game for Iowa against Ohio State on Sunday attracted more than 4 million television viewers at its peak and was the most watched women's regular-season basketball game since 1999, Fox Sports announced Tuesday.

Clark scored 35 points and passed Pete Maravich as the NCAA Division I overall career scoring leader during the Hawkeyes' 93-83 win.

Average viewership was 3.39 million and reached a high of 4.42 million late in the second half. Clark set the record with two free throws just before halftime. No women's regular-season game on any network had more viewers since 3.88 million tuned in for UConn-Tennessee in January 1999, according to Sports Media Watch.

The game was the second-most watched college basketball game of the season, trailing only the 5.18 million who saw the Michigan State-Arizona men's game that followed an NFL Thanksgiving game on Fox, SMW said.

Ohio State-Iowa surpassed the 3.01 More

  • Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024
Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. Former senior executives of Twitter filed suit against Elon Musk and X Corp. on Monday, March 4, saying they are entitled to more than $128 million total in unpaid severance payments. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid severance payments.

Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X.

Because he didn't want to pay their severance, the executives say Musk "made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various companies to uphold his decision."

The lawsuit says not paying severance and bills is part of a pattern for Musk, who's been sued by "droves" of former rank-and-file Twitter employees who didn't receive severance after Musk terminated them by the thousands.

"Under Musk's control, Twitter has become a scofflaw, stiffing employees, landlords, More

  • Monday, Mar. 4, 2024
Abe Wynen
TORONTO -- 

Colorist Society (CSI) has launched a CSI chapter in Canada. Led by Abe Wynen, CSI, sr. colorist at Redlab, Toronto, and Eric Whipp, CSI, co-founder and head of color at Alter Ego, Toronto, the chapter is open to colorists across Canada working in film, television, advertising and other media. The group plans networking, training and social events, both in-person and virtual, to support the development of a community of colorists in Canada and promote the art and science of color.

“We want to bring colorists in Canada under one roof and show them how much fun it is when we share ideas and experiences with our colleagues,” said Wynen. “We want to encourage participation from both experienced colorists and those who are new to the profession. It’s about building a better culture and forming friendships.”

Wynen is relatively new to Canada, having relocated to Toronto in 2022 after six years at boutique color and finishing studio Crayon in More

  • Monday, Mar. 4, 2024
Billie Eilish (l) and Finneas took to the stage to accept their award for Best Song Written for Film from "Barbie"
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Guild of Music Supervisors held its 14th annual award ceremony on Sunday evening (3/3) at The Wiltern Theatre, celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of music supervision in film, television, documentaries, advertising, trailers, and video games. George Drakoulias took home a double-win for his work on Barbie for Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million, and Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film with the Oscar-nominated original song “What Was I Made For?”, performed by Billie Eilish and written by Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell.

Frankie Pine was also a big winner, taking home two trophies for her work on Daisy Jones & The Six.  Alex Hackford also won two Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for his work on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 video game, and Toko Nagata won twice for her work on the films Totally Killer and Joy Ride.
 
Robbie Robertson was More

  • Sunday, Mar. 3, 2024
At the 36th-annual Scripter Awards ceremony are (l-r) Cord Jefferson, Percival Everett, Dean Melissa Just, Mick Herron, and Scripter Selection Committee chair Howard Rodman. (Photo by Sarah Golonka)
LOS ANGELES -- 

The authors and screenwriters behind the film “American Fiction” and the series “Slow Horses” won the 36th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards last night (3/2). Selection committee chair Howard Rodman announced the winners at a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library.
 
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
 
In a Scripter first, novelist Mick Herron and screenwriter Will Smith repeated as winners in the episodic series category. They took home the award for their contributions to the episode “Negotiating with Tigers” from season three of “Slow Horses,” which Smith adapted from Herron’s book “Real Tigers.”
 
Smith could not attend due to work on the next season of “Slow Horses” but relayed his sentiments through Herron.
 
“This award is very important to me,” Smith said, “ More

  • Saturday, Mar. 2, 2024
Florida's Republican House Speaker Paul Renner discusses Gov. Ron DeSantis' veto of a bill that would have banned kids under 16 from social media regardless of parental consent, in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday, March 1, 2024. A new proposal lowers that age to 14. He was joined by Democratic Rep. Michele Rayner, left, and Republican Rep. Tyler Sirois, right. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed what would have been one of the most far-reaching social media bans for minors on Friday, and lawmakers are proposing new language that seeks to keep children under under 14 off of addictive platforms.

The bill sent to the governor last week would have banned minors under 16 from popular social media platforms regardless of parental consent. DeSantis had concerns about privacy issues and parental rights, but appears to be on board with a new proposal that would allow 14- and 15-year-olds on social media with parental consent and ban access for younger children.

"The Legislature is about to produce a different, superior bill," DeSantis said in his veto message. "Protecting children from harms associated with social media is important, as is supporting parents' rights and maintaining the ability of adults to engage in anonymous speech."

He said he anticipates signing the new bill, which will go before More

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