Philly News Anchor Sues Facebook, Reddit After Her Photo Shows Up in Dating, Erectile Dysfunction Ads

[Gizmodo]( September 8, 2019 [Philly News Anchor Sues Facebook, Reddit After Her Photo Shows Up in Dating, Erectile Dysfunction Ads]( [A Philadelphia-area Fox 29 anchor, Good Day Philadelphia co-host Karen Hepp, is suing Facebook, Reddit, and other platforms in federal court after discovering that a photo of her taken in a convenience store was popping up in dating and erectile dysfunction ads, per the Verge.]( [News]( [MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito Resigns After Financial Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Revealed]( [The director of MIT’s Media Lab, Joichi Ito, stepped down on Saturday after his and the research institution’s extensive ties to late financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were exposed, the New York Times reported.]( [News]( [Wikipedia Goes Dark Across Europe, Middle East After DDOS Attack]( [Wikipedia went offline Friday afternoon and into Saturday morning after a cyber attack forced an international shutdown. The outage affected millions of users across Europe and in parts of the Middle East.]( [News]( [DHS to Ramp Up Social Media Monitoring of People Entering the Country]( [The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up the government’s existing program of demanding people entering the country hand over the details of their presence on social media, CNN reported on Friday.]( [microsoft]( [Microsoft's Interns Made a Musical, And It's Only a Little Weird]( [Next year’s interns at Microsoft have a high bar to beat because 2019's class made a whole damn musical over the summer.]( [Health]( [Deadly Vaping Illness Could be Related to Vitamin E, New York Health Officials Say]( [The number of people stricken by acute lung disease linked to e-cigarettes continues to grow, with nearly 500 suspected cases reported across the U.S. as of this week, along with two more deaths in Oregon and Indiana. But while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others are still...]( [Design]( [How Schools Are Being Designed to Minimize the Number of Deaths During a Mass Shooting]( [Lockdown drills have become the norm as schools across the U.S. are forced to grapple with the threat of potential mass shootings every single day. But these schools are also being designed in new ways to minimize the number of deaths during a mass shooting. And this segment from NBC...]( [Apple]( [Apple Can Feel Its Reputation for Bulletproof Security Slipping Through Its Fingers]( [With its flagship iPhone event just a few days away, it appears that Apple is getting a little nervous about recent reports regarding the state of its lauded security features. On Friday, it took the unusual step of publishing a blog post to refute some recent claims about its operating...]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [Jalopnik]( [A BMW Dealer Tried Mechanically Totaling An M5, So The Owner Fixed It at Home For 90 Percent Less]( [When the BMW dealership gave Alex Palmeri a $17,000 estimate to fix his 409,000-mile E39 M5, the car was declared mechanically totaled. At that price, it would cost most of its value to repair. Palmeri wasn’t ready to give up, though.]( [Kotaku]( [EA Received A Guinness World Record For Most Downvoted Comment In Reddit History]( [Back in 2017, EA was dealing with the mess that was Star Wars Battlefront II and its hated loot boxes. During that time an unknown community manager used the official EA Community Team Reddit account to respond to a complaint about unlocking characters. Over 600k downvotes and two years later,...]( [Jalopnik]( [Why No One Is Beating Tesla's Range]( [I made a mistake this week. I tweeted. I tweeted that, while I like the Porsche Taycan, I was disappointed that it couldn’t beat the range of the Tesla Model S years after it came out. And while I stand by the opinion that the Taycan isn’t fundamentally changing the...]( [Jalopnik]( [The NRA Is Not Happy With NASCAR]( [Last week, and in a tweet last night as well, the National Rifle Association rebuked NASCAR after the racing series denied advertisements for K-Var Corp., a large distributor of firearms, ammunition and firearm accessories, as part of a claimed “gradual shift” of position on firearms. The sponsorship denial, issued August...]( [Kotaku]( [Mountain Dew VooDew Is A Tasty Way To Kick Off The Halloween Season]( [We are only a few days into September, but it seems the Halloween season is starting. Stores are already starting to sell Halloween decorations. So to celebrate the spooky season, a new flavor of Mountain Dew, VooDew, has recently hit shelves.]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Gizmodo]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036