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Facebook is again mired in mounting troubles that have returned it to the spotlight. On Tuesday, whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared before Congress to detail how the social media giant’s focus on profits was causing societal harm, arguing that U.S. lawmakers needed to act. Many experts agreed it was damning testimony.The two events certainly made for awkward timing. In her prepared remarks, Haugen referenced the outage, using it to illustrate not only Facebook’s flaws but its promise.Story continues below advertisement“I know that for more than five hours Facebook wasn’t used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies,” she said. “It also means that millions of small businesses weren’t able to reach potential customers and countless photos of new babies weren’t joyously celebrated by family and friends around the world.”Haugen is a Harvard-educated American — just like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. During her appearance before the Senate consumer protection subcommittee Tuesday, she focused on issues related to U.S. consumers, including the company’s own research on the negative impact of the Facebook-owned app Instagram on body image for teenagers.But, as Haugen hinted several times, Facebook’s promise and problems ripple far beyond the United States.…

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New York: “Twitchy”, “toxic”, “divisive”. Facebook’s Instagram problem is imploding. Facebook bought out the photo sharing app for $1 billion in 2012 and on Tuesday, a whistleblower blew the covers off how Facebook engineers the toxic connections driving teens on Instagram to the brink. The damning revelations came via more than 200 minutes of live testimony in US Congress Tuesday. Recently leaked internal Facebook documents show that 13 per cent of British users and 6 per cent of American users trace their desire to kill themselves to Instagram. After first confronting Facebook’s head of global safety, US lawmakers turned to whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee at the social networking giant. Facebook, according to Haugen, is laser focused on getting younger users hooked on Instagram early on so they don’t end up going to TikTok or Snapchat. “They understand the value of younger users for the long term success of Facebook,” she said Tuesday. Haugen, testifying to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, laid out the broad brushstrokes of new regulations needed to rein in Facebook and other platforms that feed off customer data to fire their growth engines. The most charged moments came when Haugen spoke about the harms…

Nothing will ever beat the stress of listening for the beeps in those hearing tests. Hello, I'm Hannah, and I have anxiety! NBC I've had it for as long as I can remember (both social and generalized), so I definitely felt it as a kid.  Back when I was little, I thought I was just ~shy.~ Nope! I was terrified of anything and everything! 20th Century Fox Whether you had anxiety growing up like me or just found certain situations anxiety-inducing, here are 25 posts I just found a little too relatable when it comes to anxiety. Casual DVa Main / YouTube / Via youtube.com Note: Obviously there is a difference between being anxious sometimes and having anxiety. I do have anxiety and can relate to this post, but you could also totally relate if you don't have anxiety and found these situations anxiety-inducing as a child! 1. I know eye tests were supposed to help you, but I cannot tell you the anxiety that they gave me as a kid. 2. And don't even get me STARTED on hearing tests. 3. But the ultimate anxiety-inducing part of school was literally just having to speak in class. 4. My heart…

By Al Barbarino (October 5, 2021, 9:08 PM EDT) -- Cox Communications Inc. has appointed a new chief compliance and privacy officer, tapping a former Wells Fargo ethics officer who is also an ex-Cox legal and compliance professional for the post, the cable television provider's outgoing compliance chief said at an industry conference Tuesday.Robin Sangston, the current chief compliance and privacy officer with the Atlanta-based company, will retire at the end of this year after more than 26 years with the company, she said during a live webcast presented by compliance and risk software company Navex Global that also included FedEx Corporation CCO Justin Ross. Sangston's replacement, Amber N. Hall, began in... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS

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A 31-year-old Placentia man who admitted to repeatedly slapping his 19-year-old girlfriend and hitting her with a broken pool cue was convicted of murder Tuesday for the 2016 killing. An Orange County Superior Court jury found Nicholas Lee Clark guilty of first-degree murder for the beating death of Madeline Mallory, a killing that Clark acknowledged being responsible for, but which he denied having intended to carry out. Clark acknowledged during his own testimony that his brief but tumultuous relationship with Clark included domestic abuse on his part driven by jealousy. Clark’s own attorney warned jurors at the start of the trial that Clark had committed “abhorrent, unforgivable acts” and acknowledged that they would likely develop a “visceral disdain” for Clark. Photos repeatedly displayed in court showed bruises covering Mallory’s entire body, from head to toe. Her liver was pulverized, causing internal bleeding that led to her death. The doctor who carried out the autopsy testified that the injuries reminded her of those resulting from car crashes. Based on the forensic evidence, Deputy District Attorney Mena Guirguis alleged that Clark punched Mallory multiple times in the face, hit her repeatedly in the torso and at least once on the head with…

Maniquis is a travel host and YouTube personality. He lives in Mira Mesa.San Diego has a wide variety of amazing food from all over the world, and if you do some research, you can find some amazing cheap eats. As a native San Diegan, born and raised, I love uncovering some of San Diego’s best food on my YouTube channel Jaycation. Seasurf Fish Company in Del Mar Heights is located in a Vons shopping center and its $2 fish tacos and $6 poke nachos during its very affordable happy hours are delicious deals. Happy hour is daily from 3 to 6 p.m.You will also notice many places around San Diego offering Taco Tuesday specials. Although you have to take a drive over to Ramona, Los Rancheros has an amazing $1 street taco deal every Tuesday, and the owner’s cousin comes from Mexico just to make birria, a soup or stew traditionally made of goat or lamb meat, every Tuesday. Stop in after a day out visiting Julian or Three Sisters Falls.Now I’m fairly new to Indian cuisine and discovered this hidden gem in Sorrento Mesa called Charminar Indian Restaurant. The owner is from Hyderabad, India, and the restaurant serves some…

Parenting blogger and former Bachelor contestant Bekah Martinez takes most Sundays off of Instagram to spend time at her California home with her husband and two children. When Monday arrives, though, she’s ready to start the week. “Usually we have our nanny Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays so that I can tackle email, work on content for brands, sharing my day with followers and all of that because that can really boost engagement,” she says. But this week was different. “I’m usually ready to go at 9 a.m. and right at 9 I was like OK, this is interesting. The app is not refreshing. I can’t post anything, I can’t share anything.” Across the country on the campus of Columbia University in New York, activist and influencer Deja Foxx was also encountering issues when she went to post a snippet of a speaking event she’d participated in with reproductive justice advocate Loretta Ross. “I was like, oh, my Instagram must be down,” she says. But it wasn’t just her. On Monday, Facebook and two of the company’s apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, were inaccessible to billions of users for roughly six hours. Some celebrated a temporary reprieve from our collective social media…

Highlights:Published: Oct. 5, 2021 at 5:00 PM EDT|Updated: 6 hours agoSAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced Compute Express Link™ (CXL) 2.0 and PCI Express® (PCIe) 5.0 controllers now available with integrated Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) modules. Delivering security at speed in CXL is critical to solving the bandwidth bottleneck in data center infrastructure. IDE monitors and protects against physical attacks on CXL and PCIe links. CXL requires extremely low latency to enable load-store memory architectures and cache-coherent links for its targeted use cases. This breakthrough controller with a zero-latency IDE, developed by the engineering team from newly-acquired PLDA, delivers state-of-the-art security and performance at full 32 GT/s speed.(PRNewsfoto/Rambus Inc.)"Successful enablement of CXL use models in data-intensive applications, such as memory sharing between processors and attached AI accelerators, requires security at ultra-low latency," said Sean Fan, chief operating officer at Rambus. "Delivering controllers with zero-latency security is a testament of our ability to accelerate the development of CXL solutions through the recent acquisition of PLDA, and showcases our unique position to provide integrated interface and security IP solutions."The built-in IDE modules, now…