Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, acquires NFT collections CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs, along with 400+ CryptoPunks and 1.7K+ Meebits
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge : Source: Yuga Labs .
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale returns to Linden Research, in which his startup High Fidelity made an investment, to take on the metaverse
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal :
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn't require user data to generate recommendations
letting all kinds of awful content flow, and saying “the law won't let us hide hate anymore!” (You know they'd do this.) Anil Dash / @anildash : More broadly, this class of solutio...
Investigation reveals how social media influencers in Kenya are hired to spread disinformation on Twitter against Kenyan journalists, judges, and activists
It's a lucrative gig for content creators, who can make $10 to $15 a day by smearing journalists and activists on social media.
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OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1
Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed — On Thursday the video and image sharing site …
[Thread] OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content because new Mastercard rules, in force from October 1, make hosting such content prohibitively expensive
A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers and online freedom in genera...
Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, which operates a repository with 4M+ 3D assets, for an undisclosed sum; Sketchfab reduces its store commission from 30% to 12%
Controversial Israeli facial recognition startup AnyVision raises $235M Series C co-led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Eldridge Industries
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Public records and a 2019 version of its user guide show just how invasive AnyVision's facial recognition software can be; AnyVision's customers include schools
One school using the software saw that a student's face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week Tweets: @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @jessedamiani , @themarkup , and @alf...
Zimperium analysis: 14% of Android and iOS apps connecting to cloud services like AWS or Azure, totaling ~19K apps, have misconfigurations that expose user data
and in some cases, leaving them open all the time. https://www.wired.com/...
Colleges requiring virus-screening tech, from virus symptom-checking apps to temperature check stations and wearables, have not rigorously studied if it works
Many schools that use fever scanners and symptom checkers have not rigorously studied if the technology has slowed the spread of Covid-19 on campuses. Tweets: @davidboyles3 , @brid...
Twitter's Super Follows represent a surge of interest in tools that let individuals create real economic value for themselves on social networks
Will Super Follows shake up the media industry? — 16 hr ago — Today let's talk about Twitter's move into subscriptions …Tweets:@caseynewton,@bijanstephen,@ellenhuet,@chrismessi...
Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests
Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests
It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge …
NY AG sues Amazon, alleging it inadequately protected workers from COVID-19 in Staten Island and Queens, and retaliated against employees who raised concerns
The case focuses on two of the company's facilities in New York. — New York's attorney general, Letitia James …
Amazon sues NY state AG, seeking to prevent her from penalizing Amazon for alleged retaliation against staff and failures in its safety response to the pandemic
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
Sources: Google is exploring a less-stringent Android alternative to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, resembling planned Chrome changes
Canada's privacy authority says what Clearview AI does is mass surveillance, calls it illegal and unacceptable, and tells it to delete citizens' facial images
Canadian authorities declared that the company needed citizens' consent to use their biometric information, and told the firm to delete facial images from its database.
In an internal memo, John Matze says he has been terminated as Parler's CEO by its board of directors
“The future of Parler is no longer in my hands,” Matze wrote — EXCLUSIVE - Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained...