The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more
Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the past few years, the US has enacted only two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years
one for children's privacy and the other for ridding sites of sex-trafficking content —in the past 25 years.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Chris O'Brien / @obrien : EU policymakers, while not perfect, ...
The NLRB rules that 21 QA employees at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software unit are allowed to have a union election; they have until May 20 to submit ballots
The employees have until May 20th to submit their ballots — Twenty-one Raven Software QA employees have until May 20th …
As the EU finalizes DMA and DSA, a report reveals last minute lobbying by Big Tech to shield themselves from crackdowns on surveillance advertising and more
A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech's frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series of updates to the bloc's digital rulebook. Source: Corporate Europe...
Researchers detail newly patched RCE flaw in a widely used audio codec on Android devices with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips; Apple open sourced the codec in 2011
Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file. — Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability … Source: Check Point Software .
Stripe now lets companies pay users in cryptocurrencies via USDC, starting with Twitter paying some creators in crypto for Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows
- Online payments firm Stripe says it will start offering merchants the ability to pay their users in cryptocurrency through the stablecoin USDC.
Sources detail how Elon Musk convinced Morgan Stanley and 11 other banks to back his Twitter bid, including ideas on how to run the business and boost revenue
Publicly, Elon Musk has said he doesn't care about the economics of owning Twitter Inc. — But during a hectic …
In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform
including over the First Amendment—I didn't expect to find much to agree with in this speech. But it's actually very good, and worth reading, even if I don't agree with all of it. THREAD https://techp...
EU's DSA requires Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, deal with misinformation during crises, and more
The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world — The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
China-based Q&A service Zhihu closed down 23.6% in its Hong Kong trading debut, after raising $106M in a secondary listing; Zhihu faces a potential US delisting
Question and answer website Zhihu Inc's (2390.HK) shares ended down 23.6% on Friday in Hong Kong, making it one of the worst ever secondary listing debuts in the city.
Twitter bans ads that promote climate change denial and contradict the “scientific consensus”, using the United Nations' IPCC reports to inform its decisions
policing toxic lies like climate change denialism. This is why I fear the consequences of Elon Musk, with his “anything goes” outlook, taking over Twitter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://...
Jane Manchun Wong: Twitter is working on a feature codenamed “Vibe” that would let users set a status on a per-tweet basis or on a profile level
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Research: hackers have stolen ~$2.9B in crypto wealth from 37 crypto hacks in 38 weeks since August, which is almost on par with the $3.2B stolen in all of 2021
Hacker steals $182 million over the weekend, the fifth largest hack on record — Cryptocurrency hacks are getting bigger.
Despite lockdowns and tech crackdowns, China remains the best option for electronic manufacturers due to a comprehensive supply chain ecosystem and lower costs
Stringent tech regulations and Covid Zero lockdowns are challenging tech's ties to China. But first...
Interview with Dave Limp, Amazon's head of devices and services, on why he thinks ambient computing will enhance the real world, Fire phone's failure, and Astro
When Amazon launched Alexa — its voice-activated virtual assistant — in 2014, it was met with scepticism. Tweets: @misterged , @leokelion , @daveleeft , @ivan_brussels , @mattmday , @mattmday , and @m...
Leaked sales pitch: Anomaly Six, a US government contractor that claims it can track ~3B phones, demonstrated its capabilities by tracking CIA and NSA personnel
In partnership with — In the months leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss …
Leaked chat logs: Lapsus$ hacked T-Mobile multiple times in March and stole some projects' source code; T-Mobile says no customer or government info was stolen
As of Friday's close, Netflix had a $99.2B market cap, down from $300B+ in November 2021; Meta had a $532.6B market cap after passing $1T in June 2021
and gives the stock serious upside Shivdeep Dhaliwal / Benzinga : Facebook Parent Main Emerging Player In Metaverse Alongside Apple; Goldman Analysts See 89% Upside Tweets: Eric Jhonsa / @ericjhonsa :...
Agility Robotics, which makes bipedal warehouse robots, raises a $150M Series B from DCVC, Playground Global, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, and others
We are excited to announce we have raised $150 million in a Series B funding round. RoboticsTomorrow.com News : Agility Robotics Raises $150M Series B Led By DCVC and Playground Global to Accelerate B...
Mandiant: one-third of all hacker groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups
Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review :
Filing: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183M debt forfeited by selling the 69K+ bitcoins seized in 2020 connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Ukrainians are replacing DJI drones with BRINC, Skydio, and other US-made drones after unexplained failures with the Chinese company's equipment during the war
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Ebook vendors like Hoopla are offering titles with COVID-19 disinformation, conversion therapy, Holocaust denial, and more; librarians want more accountability
Claire Woodcock / VICE : Tweets: @eminencefont , @knowledge21org , @little_wow , @flexlibris , @ousfourita , @janusrose , and @techwontsaveus See also Mediagazer Tweets: @eminencefont : Twitter, I no...
Mendel, which uses AI to parse unstructured medical record data and clinical literature to produce data for research, raises a $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT
Rebecca Torrence / Fierce Healthcare :
Glide, a no-code service that lets businesses create apps based on Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable, raises a $20M Series A led by Benchmark
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.
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