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Emma Roth

Emma Roth

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    DoorDash admits “we screwed up” in paying NYC workers.

    The company will pay $131.5 million to settle an NYC legal dispute that accused DoorDash of underpaying workers. “Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late,” DoorDash says.

    The settlement includes $115 million for more than 260,000 impacted DoorDash workers, as well as over $16 million in civil penalties.

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    Emma Roth
    Apple still appears to be working on an “AutoLock” feature for stolen iPhones.

    As spotted by 9to5Mac, code in the latest iOS 27.2 beta backs up earlier reporting that suggests Apple may automatically lock iPhones when taken from their owners. Apple may use various signals to determine when an iPhone was stolen, such as a “sharp acceleration” that indicates a device was snatched, the inability to connect to a paired Apple Watch, and a loss of network connectivity.

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    Emma Roth
    Meta is building a subsea cable with petabit capacity.

    The subsea “Petal” cable will connect the US and France across 4,300 miles when it comes online in 2029. Meta says it will be the first transoceanic subsea cable to deliver 1 petabit of data per second using a multi-core fiber technology. “That’s roughly the network capacity required for 75% of the world’s population to stream music at the same time,” according to Meta.