Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press ...
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification. — That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous. — www.thev...
The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision that removes the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 use the 6 GHz band
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... [image] Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : I bet companies can't WAIT to bid on spectrum that currently has millions of devices using it, most of which will never see a f...
House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI models for 10 years
triggered by official GOP tweet — fire back at ‘worthless’ reps Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Republicans Push Bill to Ban State AI Regulation for 10 Years Bluesky: Rep. Rheingans / @reprheingans : 🚨 fed Repu...
Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, right next to its total listed price
Karoline Leavitt Calls It ‘Hostile’ Move Fox Business : White House calls Amazon tariff pricing display ‘hostile and political act’ Megan Ziegler / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul : Amazon tariff price rep...
President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges
Crypto Braced For Another Trump Shock After Bitcoin, XRP, Solana And Cardano Price Boom CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About Trump's Crypto Reserve Plans Matthew Gault / Gizmodo : C...
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information
and the ingestion of personal information—to power their services - Companies generally fed extensive amts of personal info into their automated systems /10 [image] Jon von Tetzchner / @jonsvt : This ...
Facebook shares two annotated internal research docs about Instagram's impact on teen mental health, after being notified of WSJ's plans to publish the docs
accusing the company of putting profits ahead of children's wellbeing and concealing the harms that its apps pose to young people. The hearing came days after Facebook “paused” work on an app for kids...
Sources: Microsoft and ByteDance hoped to have broad strokes of a TikTok deal by Monday, but then Trump's comments led them to seek clarity from the White House
Trump Deletes TikTok Ivan Mehta / The Next Web : Microsoft might buy TikTok — here's what's going on Hadlee Simons / Android Authority : It's official: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok's US ope...
Congress grills Google, Facebook, and Twitter again as lawmakers weigh creating a commission with subpoena power to study and monitor social media weaponization
slated for consideration next week — would create national commission and fed task force to probe social media and extremism. More, including news from today's hearing with FB, Google and Twitter, in ...