How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity? — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/...
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity? — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/...
Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security”
President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mis...
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law.
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law.
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Da...
TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement
TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …
French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder and brother Nikolai in March 2024
PARIS — French authorities issued arrest warrants for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and his co-founder brother Nikolai in March …
Experts say Pavel Durov's arrest is likely an outlier, as the legal bar is high in the US and Europe to prosecute tech executives for content on their platforms
printers— were held responsible for what came off their presses, then booksellers. Finally authors were responsible, which Foucault says was the birth of the author. I think we w...
Epic says Apple removed its iOS developer account, hampering its app store plans, and shares a letter from Apple lawyers calling Epic “verifiably untrustworthy”
The EU confirms requesting further explanations from Apple over removing Epic's developer account under the DMA, and is examining if Apple broke any other rules
- Epic Games barred by Apple from opening own iPhone app store — EU says it is looking to see if firm has broken new tech law
A look at music streaming fraud, including bot farms and pirates relabeling musicians' work to steal revenue; Beatdapp estimates fraud costs musicians $2B/year
relabeling others' music as your own to get streaming revenue from it—featuring @VolokhC's own David Post (as a subject of the fraud, not the author of the article). https://www.ny...
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh
A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet
Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.
A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet
Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024
Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation — Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …
FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more
FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right. Its makers say that is the point. Tweets: @markyarm , @klonick , @pt , @dvsch , and @normative . Thanks:...