A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023
But He Can Keep His Porsche X: Ryan Salame / @rsalame7926 : @eigenfxn ... I didn't steal shit, the government and all the cooperating witnesses said I didn't. Ryan Salame / @rsalame7926 : hot damn, th...
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies”
TIKTOK IS LESS OF A DANGER TO THE USA THAN META (FACEBOOK!), WHICH IS A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Jessica Kwong / Metro.co.uk : Trump's ex-treasury secretary is trying to buy TikTok amid ban threat Mo...
Apple open sources Pkl, a configuration-as-code language with rich validation and tooling, with Swift, Go, Java, and Kotlin integration
We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. Threads: @danielpunkass . Mastodon: @lkanies@hachyderm.io . X...
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls
Our statement: progresschamber.org/musk-sues-ca-over- content-moderation-law [embedded post] Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : And it looks like just weeks after that case got thrown out, exTwitt...
A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic
An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio. — The White House wants big AI companies … Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca , @esnyder@mastodon.social , and @tim...
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall
Tim Harford / Financial Times : Tweets: @johnkoetsier , @pkedrosky , @ftweekend , @prashanth_krish , @profjohnturner , @thecompoundnews , and @financialtimes Tweets: John Koetsier / @johnkoetsier : W...
How Elon Musk's Twitter usage and stewardship is making him toxic for many Tesla customers and shareholders at a time when the company badly needs new business
If Elon Musk has a tragic flaw, it isn't his temper, or his treatment of underlings, or his refusal to follow securities laws. Tweets: @joelwebershow , @rstephens , @jessefelder , @johnauthers , @bria...
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook
but what's the point? Yash Wate / TechPP : WhatsApp delays new privacy policy update after user backlash Tweets: @whatsapp : Thank you to everyone who's reached out. We're still working to counter any...
Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong
and this is exactly the kind of fallout we're preventing with our Privacy Sandbox proposal. https://stratechery.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : This makes some fine points on the micro level. But ...
Leaked Facebook employee thread about now-deleted Boz memo had ~3,000 comments, with dozens criticizing leakers, others empathizing with users
Yesterday afternoon, BuzzFeed published … Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed : Sen. Ed Markey Says “Congress Must Act” When Facebook Fails To Maintain Safety On Its Platform Sam Levin / The Guardian : Interna...