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Jay Peters is a News Editor at The Verge. He covers breaking news in consumer technology, social media, video games, virtual worlds, streaming, and more. He’s appeared on CNBC, NPR, BBC News, WNYC, and other broadcast outlets to discuss technology news.
Before joining The Verge as a News Writer in 2019, Jay worked for Techmeme, where he helped curate the most important technology news of the moment. He actually started his career in technology public relations, working in the field for more than five years. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.
When he’s not writing, Jay really likes running. But he prefers to run far, not fast.
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The watchdog says that Meta violated upon local consumer protection and data privacy laws, reports Reuters. The company has 60 days to pay the fine, according to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s order.
You can read documents associated with the case on the watchdog’s website.
Google is improving its support for Markdown in Google Docs, including giving users the ability to convert Markdown to Docs formatting when you paste and the ability to copy Docs content as Markdown.
The updates make it possible for developers to “collaborate on software documentation in Docs and then export it as Markdown for use in other Markdown supporting tools,” Google says.
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It’s a “global outage,” according to an Nvidia status message. “We are working on a fix to bring back the service as soon as possible.”
Nvidia’s other GeForce Now services appear to be operational, so perhaps this issue is tied to everything else going on.
Frontier says that if your flight was impacted, you can request a refund. The Federal Aviation Administration had to ground Frontier flights, but that ground stop was lifted after 10PM ET.
Microsoft services had been subject to a few problems Thursday evening, that got even worse on Friday after a bad CloudStrike update.
Update: noted that issue is resolved.