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Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad business on families’ data

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on subscribers and their children, then used it to build the advertising business it had said it would never run. The 66-page complaint was filed on 9 September in the circuit court for St. Johns County.

“Netflix told Florida families they could pay a monthly fee to escape Big Tech surveillance. That was false,” Uthmeier said in a statement. Netflix told Gizmodo and Politico that the lawsuit “lacks merit” and that it will “vigorously defend the matter in court”.

What Florida says Netflix promised

The complaint rests on what Netflix executives said before the ad-supported tier launched in November 2022. In 2016, it says, a Netflix vice president, Todd Yellin, criticised Google and Facebook for “serving two masters”, the consumer and the advertiser. It quotes a 2019 shareholder letter that told investors any...

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ClickFix Malware Is Going Viral, Infecting PCs And Macs With CAPTCHA Prompts

Remember over a year ago when we reported on the ClickFix malware that uses fake CAPTCHA mechanisms to dupe unwitting victims into pwning their own machines? Well, apparently not enough people shared that post, because the problem has grown to epic scale. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont remarked this past Thursday

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Valve’s Steam Frame Launches At $1,059 With A Sweet Half-Life: Alyx Bonus

Valve's highly anticipated Steam Frame standalone VR headset is finally here after being revealed alongside the new Steam Controller and Steam Machine back in November. The Steam Frame has launched with two models (one with 256GB of onboard UFS storage and one with 1TB) and, similar to the

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Nintendo Switch Owners Should Update Their Firmware

Owners of the original Nintendo Switch should patch a security exploit immediately, especially if they game in public. Nintendo announced the vulnerability on Sept. 10, shortly after releasing its latest 23.0.0 firmware update. The exploit applies only to original Nintendo Switch owners using the Send to Smartphone feature.

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You Don’t Have to Use Apple AI in iOS 27: How to Turn Off Apple Intelligence

The newest iPhone software, iOS 27, is rolling out this week. With it comes a new dose of Apple Intelligence, including Siri AI. But if you don’t want to use Image Playground, read notification summaries or use the AI writing tools, you may want to reclaim that storage space

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ClickFix Malware Is Going Viral, Infecting PCs And Macs With CAPTCHA Prompts

Valve’s Steam Frame Launches At $1,059 With A Sweet Half-Life: Alyx Bonus

Nintendo Switch Owners Should Update Their Firmware

You Don’t Have to Use Apple AI in iOS 27: How to Turn Off Apple Intelligence