California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology in a bid to detect fraud and smoothen the title transfer process, the agency and its technology partners exclusively told Reuters on Tuesday.

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent.

Specialty glass maker Corning forecast current-quarter profit largely below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, blaming a slowdown in demand for its clean-air technologies, even as it saw robust sales for its optical fiber products.

Many top porn stars on OnlyFans hire ‘chatters’ to impersonate them online. These impostors aren’t formally affiliated with the social media site but have brought it riches – and new legal threats.

Britain’s antitrust watchdog is scrutinising Google-parent Alphabet’s partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and its impact on competition, the regulator said on Tuesday.

Amazon.com is responsible for hazardous products sold by third-party sellers on its platform under the federal safety law and bears legal responsibility for their recall, the U.S. consumer protection authority said on Tuesday.

Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor has shelved a case against the intelligence service, EYP, as a preliminary probe by the court showed no evidence that the agency used illegal phone malware to spy on targets, the Athens News Agency reported on Tuesday.

OnlyFans is a porn-saturated website that offers its subscribers a chance to forge “authentic relationships” with content creators. But many OnlyFans porn stars rely on “chatters” to impersonate them in messages designed to pry dollars from randy subscribers. And, increasingly, some of those chatters aren’t even human – they’re bots.

Barcode scanner maker Zebra Technologies on Tuesday beat estimates for second-quarter results and raised its full-year forecast, helped by a steady recovery in demand for its hardware and software services and products.

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