Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
Adi Robertson / The Verge : X: @kuittinenpetri , @kuittinenpetri , and @carolinerommer X: Petri Kuittinen / @kuittinenpetri : @CarolineRommer ... Well, you just described the Finnish mainstream media...
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Joseph Gedeon / The Guar...
Source: Parler has ~50,000 DAUs and its parent company Parlement had been trying to sell the social network for the past few weeks at a “wildly inflated” price
conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump out crappy copies of ...
An in-depth look at the mechanics behind Axie Infinity and the ramifications of the ~$620M hack on players and the game, as Sky Mavis plots its next steps
Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons. Tweets: @caseynewton , @joshuabrustein , @joshuabrustein , @joshuabrustein , @thedextriarchy , @th...
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda
Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter should be taken privat...
Users embrace “algospeak”, like saying “unalive” instead of dead, to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch
I have a love-hate relationship with being sick. Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : I spoke with @TaylorLorenz about how attempting to “sanitize the internet” with automated content removal is a fools...
Algospeak, like saying unalive instead of dead, is becoming common on the internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok
“Algospeak” is becoming increasingly common across the Internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @kslane , @thedextriarchy , @t...
Twitter has hired Michael Sayman, formerly of Roblox, to work on experimental features as the company seeks to compete with TikTok for younger users
When Joss Robinson, 18, a freshman at the University of Connecticut, wants to catch up on what his friends are talking about, he often turns to Twitter. Tweets: @daveweigel , @scottnover , @kerrymflyn...
The US Copyright Office rejects a request to grant a copyright to a work of art created by an AI, as the image didn't include an element of “human authorship”
Adi Robertson / The Verge : Source: US Copyright Office .