A bill that would empower news organizations to negotiate pay from big tech companies that carry their content has been dropped from a defense package after lawmakers from both sides of the aisle raised concerns about how it would affect the news ecosystem.

A lawsuit alleging that the stranger video chatting website Omegle.com LLC matched a girl with a sex predator who abused her can advance to the evidence-gathering discovery phase in litigation against the platform, an Oregon federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Acuity Brands said it identified a data security incident, with employee data involved.

The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency plans to task an advisory panel with examining corporate cyber responsibility in the year ahead.

Jim Baker, Twitter Inc.’s deputy general counsel, was pushed out of the company over his handling of information, Elon Musk said in a tweet.

The classified ads marketplace Letgo Inc. escaped a lawsuit alleging that the website illegally “verified” a user who later was convicted of murdering a Colorado couple after meeting them to sell a used car for their daughter.