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Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking website, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies under an agreement with officials nationwide that was announced Thursday. The measures include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users' ability to contact subscribers under 18 and participating in a task force set up in January to find ways to verify users' ages and identities. Officials from Washington, D.C., and 49 states have signed on. Facebook, which has more than 70 million active users worldwide, already has enacted many of the changes.
Wilmington, N.C., to be first for all-digital TVThe Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced that the Wilmington, N.C., television market would be the first to switch from analog signals to an all-digital format. It said five local stations will begin broadcasting only digital signals beginning at noon Sept. 8 -- five months ahead of the much-advertised Feb. 17, 2009, nationwide change.
New unemployment filings drop 18,000The number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits dropped far more than expected last week. The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits fell to 365,000, a decline of 18,000 from the previous week. Economists had expected a decrease of around 5,000. Weekly jobless claims have been exceptionally volatile in recent weeks because of strike-related layoffs in the auto industry and an unusually early Easter that caused problems with seasonal adjustment measurements.
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