Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls
Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat
Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned …
The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes
Top of the Morning — I come here neither to praise nor pillory David Sacks, the venture capitalist who spends half …
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends si...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”
Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to distinguish them and “increase transparency”; accounts have to apply the labels themselves
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27
President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
Trump says Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and told Trump he wouldn't endorse a Democrat because he “respected” Trump's reaction that day
Former President Donald Trump has expressed a newfound fondness for Mark Zuckerberg after years of railing against him.
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS — Get notified of outages that impact you — Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...
A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market
The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …
Jan Leike, who was co-leading OpenAI's Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever to “steer and control” more powerful AI, has also resigned from the company
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist who helped lead the infamous failed coup against Sam Altman …
Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI's chief scientist
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he's leaving the Microsoft-backed startup.
A look at Grok responses Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor feels forced and try-hard
Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
Instagram is testing a toggle in its app that lets users only see posts from Meta Verified subscribers, as “a way for businesses and creators to get discovered”
and it's testing a new service that boosts your profile if you do Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : Instagram Could Soon Filter Out Non-Verified Accounts The Indian Express : Meta Veri...
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2...
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twi...
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
Elon Musk says X's — formerly Twitter's — block feature is on the chopping block …
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months
and yet 🤡 @junlper : mark zuckerberg listening to elon musk talk about how he wanted the fight to be roman themed and in italy [image] Derek Guy / @dieworkwear : when i unbutton th...
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months
but Zuckerberg Calls BS Stuff.co.nz : Elon Musk to fight Mark Zuckerberg in ‘ancient Roman setting’ MMA Fighting : Mark Zuckerberg denies Elon Musk fight claims, mentions UFC and O...