In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.LinkedIn:Bridget FahrlandandDaron Y...
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.n...
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane.
An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more
Jimmy Wales https://www.nytimes.com/... Bluesky: Yonette Joseph / @sugarcane99 : Jimmy Wales on Elon Musk's attacks on Wikipedia: — “I don't think he has the power he thinks he h...
Around 200 nations approved the UN Convention against Cybercrime, expected to win General Assembly approval; critics say it could be used to justify repression
A global deal on the criminal use of computer technology is moving ahead despite worries it will let governments around …
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @liyuan6 , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and G...
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @liyuan6 , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and G...
Meduza, an outlet covering Russian news, says Apple Podcasts removed its flagship podcast and then restored the show two days later without providing reasons
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted
The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay
Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO's geolocation tool
The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.
Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue
The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.
Sources: the US considers sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country
Beijing's exports of video recorders to Iran more than doubled in 2022 as protests swept the country
Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021
both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...