America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
…The president quipped at his 2025 State of the Union that “I’m going to use that bill for myself,” because “nobody gets treated worse than I do online.” X’s then…
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Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections
…And politically, a growing number of normally misaligned industry groups are echoing the banks in opposition to the Clarity Act, for a variety of reasons; the police unions think that it would…
Meta isn’t doing enough to keep kids off Facebook and Instagram, rules EU
…arbitrary.” The Commission says it contradicts “large bodies of evidence from all over the European Union” that suggest 10-12 percent of children under 13 are accessing Facebook and/or Instagram. …
AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
…Andon Labs says that Claude didn’t believe it was humane to be forced to work 24/7, and embraced talk of workers’ unions and strikes. It also seemed to have an…
Netflix’s new studio will produce animated shorts with generative AI
…Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki famously called AI “an insult to life itself,” and labor unions representing animators from multiple countries organized a protest against generative AI at the 2025 Annecy Animation…
Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power
…I’m genuinely unsure, but there have been no Bandcamp United updates since 2023, and the union’s FAQ states explicitly that “[current owner] Songtradr has not recognized the union” (emphasis original…
Your guide to sci-fi streaming season
…In the show’s alternate reality, the Soviet Union is the first country to land an cosmonaut on the Moon, and Star City will show that story from the Soviet perspective. And…
There’s an internet choke point in the Middle East — is the solution in the North Pole?
…But the most ambitious proposal is in Europe, where the repeated cable cuts have the continent looking to the Arctic. Earlier this year, a European Union panel on cable resilience recommended…
You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone — for now
…Police served Google with a warrant asking for data on anyone who had been within 300 meters of the Call Federal Credit Union at the time of the robbery, and made subsequent…
Apple wants Europe to blink
…Apple says its new AI-powered Siri will not launch on iPhones and iPads in the European Union because of the Digital Markets Act, the bloc’s competition law designed to stop…