OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions”
OpenAI responded, but is it enough? Mary Cunningham / CBS News : OpenAI blocks Sora 2 users from using MLK Jr.'s likeness after “disrespectful depictions” Katrina Morgan / WUSA : OpenAI takes away abi...
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : Apple pulls immigrati...
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches
I suspect they might have been compressing the audio track to prevent video buffering. Leo S / @yeeleo15 : Streaming to 10-15 million a lot different than the 60 million they claimed from the Tyson fi...
Elon Musk appears to confirm that X deprioritizes posts with links in their main text, to stop “lazy linking”, and tells users to “put the link in the reply”
Anyway, here's the biggest loser of all, admitting to throttling links and blaming the user for wanting to link: — https://www.mediaite.com/... Bluesky: @davidjoffe64.bsky.social : More reasons to a...
Letter to Epic: Apple's lawyers cite Tim Sweeney's attacks, including an X post, and say Epic is part of a “global effort to undermine or evade Apple's rules”
To understand what just happened, one needs to rewind to the start … Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle : EU says it's investigating why Apple terminated Epic's developer account Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo ...
A profile of Paul Dochney, the man behind pseudonymous character @dril that emerged from Something Awful to become one of the most influential Twitter accounts
Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act? Tweets: @kriswernowsky , @scottnover , @en_cohen , @whet , @joeyn...
After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul's apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul says his only mistake was trusting the project's many “bad actors”
A look at growing online meth communities on Zoom, Reddit, and others as they attract little attention from content moderators, worsening the addiction problem
In December, Paul went home for the holidays. Like many people, he hadn't seen his family for almost a year. Tweets: @denisechow , @nicolechilders , @kattenbarge , @nbcnewspr , @benjamingoggin , @kev...
Dan Kaminsky, the celebrated security researcher widely known for his work on discovering crucial DNS security flaws and Sony Rootkit infections, has died at 42
Saddened by news of the death of Dan Kaminsky, a member of the ICANN Trusted … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : The cybersecurity researcher Dan Kaminsky has died Tweets: Sarah B / @sarahbrie :...