OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1
Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed — On Thursday the video and image sharing site …
A California superior court judge rules that Prop 22 is unconstitutional because it infringes on the Legislature's power to set workplace standards
A California judge on Friday ruled that a 2020 ballot measure exempting rideshare and food delivery drivers from a state labor law …
Documents show OnlyFans moderators are told to show more leniency for popular accounts posting illegal content than they do for smaller accounts
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Facebook shelved its content transparency report in Q1 fearing public criticism, as the most-viewed link suggested a doctor died due to a COVID-19 vaccine
The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” — When Facebook this week released …
Facebook rolls out new security features for people in Afghanistan, including a one-click tool to quickly lock accounts and limit account discoverability
Facebook said Thursday it is rolling out new user controls for people in Afghanistan who are rushing to delete their digital footprints …
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year”
Join us to build the future of AI → https://www.tesla.com/ai0:00 … Stephen Shankland / CNET : No one knows when Tesla Bot will arrive. Here are robots you can experience now Jackson Ryan / CNET : Elon...
OnlyFans says it will prohibit users from posting any “sexually explicit conduct” starting in October, but will allow nude photos and videos
Chainalysis: global cryptocurrency adoption grew 881% YoY, led by Vietnam, India, and Pakistan, according to metrics such as P2P exchange trading volume
- Global crypto adoption has taken off in the last year, up 881%, with Vietnam, India and Pakistan firmly in the lead, according to new data from Chainalysis. Source: Chainalysis Blog .
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 17.2M rps DDoS attack last month, ~3x larger than any previous DDoS attack, targeting a customer in the financial industry
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed today that it mitigated the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that was recorded to date.
Researchers who built an Apple-like system to identify CSAM in e2e encrypted online services say they abandoned it due to numerous abuse and misuse concerns
Jonathan Mayer is an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.
FTC's updated suit against Facebook incorrectly claims that Facebook has driven up ad prices via monopoly control over the personal social networking market
re-filed its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook — after a federal judge deemed that the agency failed to prove …
Google says it's shutting down the standalone Android Auto for Phone Screens app with Android 12, in favor of Google Assistant driving mode in Google Maps
Android 12 will mark the end of the stopgap app — Google has confirmed it's shutting down the standalone “Android Auto for Phone Screens” app with Android 12.
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
China passes a data privacy law mandating that data collection has a reasonable purpose, user consent, and limited to “minimum scope”, taking effect November 1
With a Big, Government-Sized Loophole Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : China's new user data protection law goes into effect on November 1st Xinhua News Agency : China adopts new law to protect personal in...
UK's CMA recommends an in-depth investigation into Nvidia's planned $40B acquisition of Arm, saying there are “serious competition concerns” about the deal
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A deep dive into the aggressive lobbying tactics that Apple is using to fight app store bills in Georgia, Arizona, North Dakota, Louisiana, and other US states
Report: Google is dismantling its Health division, formed in 2018, and scattering its units across the company
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Profile of Thomas Templeton, an Apple hardware veteran building a bitcoin wallet for Square, and how he photographs retail countertops to inform product design
The Square executive leading Jack Dorsey's big plan for a bitcoin wallet is a veteran hardware technologist with a quirky hobby: taking pictures of countertops. Tweets: @protocol Tweets: @protocol : T...
Apple launches Siri Speech Study, an iOS app that lets invited participants share their voice requests and other feedback with Apple
A consortium including Nordic Capital and Insight Partners to buy and take private Inovalon, which makes software for analyzing healthcare data, for $6.41B
Mrinalika Roy / Reuters : Source: GlobeNewswire News Room .
Q&A with Nick Shenkin, an SF-based FBI special agent, on warning big tech companies about economic espionage and IP theft by Russian and Chinese spies and more
When FBI special agent Nick Shenkin starts talking about spies in Silicon Valley, he's not describing a James Bond movie …
CEO of South Korea's online retail giant Coupang is facing renewed criticism about working conditions after a fire damaged one of its main fulfillment centers
- Coupang CEO Kim under fire for worker treatment in South Korea — Company says it takes safety and health of employees seriously
Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey's inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick's weakness in managing company culture
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.