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A federal judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25bn after ruling that it deliberately misled the public about its handling of Facebook user data. Judge Francis Mathew said communications between senior executives were designed to mislead the public. "Facebook's wrongdoing - over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public - goes to the heart of Facebook's core business practices," Mathew wrote. He found that a penalty of more than $219bn was warranted based on state law, but he reduced the figure to $25bn. The penalty would be among the largest payouts in U.S. legal history if it stands. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said the money must be spent on building schools. “We may have in fact paid for the construction of schools for the next several hundred years,” Torrez said. “I don’t actually know because the amounts that we’re dealing with are so huge.”
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The identification of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language which underpins around 70% of the world’s websites, has led to government agencies and businesses worldwide taking their websites offline. The flaws could allow hackers to take control of web servers without a password. The organisation behind the language issued a patch on Wednesday after researchers testing cyberdefences discovered the flaws. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre told organisations to check for “backdoors installed by an attacker.” Prof Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at Surrey University in the UK, said: “The big thing is for everyone using [the patch] to get that in to make sure their systems are safe. The troubling part is there is going to be a long tail of websites who may not be maintained as well and they are going to remain vulnerable, which means we may see weeks and months of ongoing attacks.”
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