Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images and requiring platforms to promptly remove them when notified
The bill sailed through Congress with a focus on deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
Civitai blames a “configuration issue” for allowing users to generate non-consensual porn; it appears that users can still create such videos of non-celebrities
404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price. Bluesky: @josephcox and @emanuelmaiberg . Mastodon: @jbhall56@inf...
Investigation: China's Ministry of State Security intel agency uses AI and other tech to challenge the CIA; US officials describe an AI system to track US spies
New York Times :
The European Commission issues a preliminary view in its antitrust investigation of Google and suggests the company divest its ad business; Google can now reply
The European Commission issues a preliminary antitrust complaint against Google over its ad business, suggesting breaking up the unit; Google can now reply
The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …
Analysis: in an information campaign on Twitter, Chinese officials and state media widely mocked a US TikTok ban, showing Beijing's investment in TikTok's fate
A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users
The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
Analysis: Apple's corporate diplomacy in Beijing helped it evade crackdowns and kept its profits above China's tech giants but exposes it to supply chain shocks
The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
In an internal post, Meta Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba instructed managers to identify and “move to exit” poor performers
Meta Platforms' Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba has instructed managers to identify and …
Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid
Amir Efrati / The Information :
Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to take Twitter private by acquiring all outstanding stock for $54.20 per share, in a cash deal worth ~$43B
not “cancel culture” — are ruining discourse Eugene Robinson / Washington Post : If Elon Musk wants Twitter, he's welcome to it Financial Times : How Elon Musk could fund his $43bn...
Jeff Bezos says Amazon supports a rise in the corporate tax rate and making bold investments in US infrastructure, but stops short of supporting Biden's plan
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday voiced support for raising the corporate tax rate but stopped short of saying he supports President Joe Biden's plan for the increase. Source: Ab...
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work
money that will go plenty further somewhere else.” Great piece by @NellieBowles https://www.nytimes.com/... JP Mangalindan / @jpmanga : Ironically, that's my old SF apartment build...
FTC, in coalition with 46 state AGs, plus Guam and DC, sues Facebook, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were used to stifle competition
Agency challenges Facebook's multi-year course of unlawful conduct — The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook …
Legal experts say FTC and state AGs will find it challenging to prove their allegations against Facebook because the standards of proof are formidable
The U.S. and states cases against the social network are far from a slam dunk because the standards of proof are formidable.