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Speech and Moderation
…The Federal Trade Commission reminded more than a dozen companies that it can soon begin enforcing the new mandate for platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of a valid…
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
…communities. Some of them can be totally private unless you’re invited in. And yet, they’re still on the ATmosphere in some way. Is that right? That’s right. The trade…
Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
…People voting — one after the other — literally thought I was making millions in the stock market doing inside trading.” Crenshaw was right, to a degree. Republican strategists who’ve watched his…
Is this e-reader case a gun?
…The Governor is confident these measures will make all New York communities safer.” Cliff Braun, associate director of technology policy and research at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who has spoken critically of…
Wearables are getting a taste of much-needed minimalism
…They served as a form of notification triage, a backup line of communication for your phone, and a fitness tracker. You got more bang for your buck. Part of that was a…
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
…New civil investigative demands reveal that the Federal Trade Commission is looking at potentially exclusionary behavior around Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, as well as its role in the AI industry. Customers…
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
…The pained-looking expressions on the faces and a gloss of eerie motion smoothing communicate the central thesis that Altman can’t be trusted. There’s a painterly look to the image…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…There isn’t much publicly available footage of me speaking Spanish — the language I use to communicate with my parents — aside from a single podcast interview from 2021, most of which is…
My favorite feel-good show is back
…I honestly cannot believe it’s that easy to wipe us off the planet.” — Dawit “Found this neat little Mac OS app, Hoy, for communicating via iCloud. Quite digging the simple UI…