>> Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi saying, Meta has reached a $17 billion set...
a bipartisan group of state attorneys general to resolve a lawsuit that alleged harms
in online safety to underage users. The attorney general for the District of Columbia, Brian Schald, spoke with NPR's here and now. >> They also understood that the features that they were developing were designed to do and had the effect of making sure young people were online for as long as possible.
If they got offline, they were drawn back, lured back onto their platforms and really maintaining as much direct contact with the platform as possible.
“All by design, that's why I thought of this really as digital and nicotine.”
>> The parent company of Instagram and Facebook denied the allegations of trial and california, one of the states that was leading a consortium of plaintiffs and suing the tech giant with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's company, vowed significant changes in how it operates its platforms. On its website today, Meta says it agrees to include strict daily time limits, teens
cannot turn off default blocks from its absent night and muted notifications during school hours among other measures, Meta also challenges TikTok and YouTube to follow suit. The U.S. government is taking new steps to block Chinese hackers from breaking into U.S.
critical infrastructure more from NPR's Genie McLaughlin.
>> The FBI has teamed up with cybersecurity company Lumen Technologies to uncover the digital infrastructure used by Chinese hackers to launch cyber attacks against targets around the world. Most recently, the team pinpointed a zombie army of infected devices, what's known as a botnet, the Chinese hackers have been using to cover their digital tracks.
“Researchers that Lumen describe it as a digital quartermaster, used by multiple hacking”
groups to spy and disguise their origins. The U.S. Justice Department seized and took back control of the botnet. According to the Justice Department, the CS Network helped facilitate previously known digital break-ins. At NASA, the Federal Reserve Board, the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Senate, among
others. General Gloughlin, NPR News, in remarks to the UN Security Council of the diplomat for President Trump's Board of Peace criticizes Israel, for ongoing strikes in Gaza and here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman. The Board of Peace, high representative for Gaza, Nicolai Mladin off, says Hamas has agreed to hand over its weapons, and he calls this an opportunity
to dramatically improve life for Palestinians in Gaza. But he says this will take time, and he questions, Israel's continued deadly strikes in Gaza. >> Will another strike on a munitions depot stop Hamas from rearming or tightening its grip on Gaza?
It will not. It only delays the de-militarization. >> Mladin off is also urging Israel to change its policies to let more supplies into Gaza in order to build needed housing ahead of winter and restore water services. >> It's NPR.
More than a month after Senator Lindsey Graham died in the middle of his re-election campaign, South Carolina voters have chosen his younger sister to be the Republican candidate in November's midterm elections. Darling Graham defeated congressman Ralph Norman in the special primary runoff yesterday, weeks ago, the political newcomer was appointed to serve the remainder of her brother's term. President Trump's endorsement of Darling Graham was
“widely viewed as an important test of his influence on the Republican base.”
The Kennedy Center Board is threatening to tear down the arts complex if their renovation plan is not approved by federal judge. NPR as an astaceous yield gusts reports the comment was made in a legal filing submitted by Department of Justice officials. >> A turnies in the DOJ civil division made the comments as part of the lawsuit filed by
represent Joyce Bady, Democrat of Ohio. The board's lawyers argued the Kennedy Center is in a "financial and structural death spiral already," adding quote, "the center will deteriorate further into an unsafe to crepit structure that will be required to be taken down with a determination to follow on what to build on the site."
The board wants to spend at least $250 million on the two-year renovation.
They also want to put President Trump's name in three locations of the center, including twice on its main entryway. Bady is asking the court to block Trump's name from going back up. An emergency hearing is set for Thursday, and a says it's Hilcus and PR news. U.S. talks to her mixed-fissile with the Dow down 80 points for the NASDAQ 33.
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