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Enlarge / A cropped image showing Raw TV’s poster for the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did, which features a long…

Getty Images Last October, I received an email with a hell of an opening line: “I fired a nuke at…

The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced its leadership team after…

Elon Musk confirmed Monday that X (formerly Twitter) plans to start charging new users to post on the platform, TechCrunch…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communications Commission rules will allow harmful…

Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23,…

A 28-year-old Delaware woman, Hadja Kone, was arrested after cops linked her to an international sextortion scheme targeting thousands of…

Enlarge / Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the announcement of decisions after a hearing…

Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in England. Getty Images |…

Enlarge / Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin speaks onstage during CinemaCon, a convention of the National Association of Theatre…

A board member of Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, has been accused of hacking one of…

X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy. Previously, a blue…

Epic Games has filed a proposed injunction that would stop Google from restricting third-party app distribution outside Google Play Store…

Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images | Bloomberg Elon Musk’s clumsy brand shift…

Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI models’ training data, US Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that…

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has finalized rules for handling water supplies that are contaminated by a…

Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado Enlarge / A sample consumer label for home Internet service. FCC Starting today, home Internet…

Enlarge / An oil refinery in Louisiana. Facilities such as this have led to a proliferation of petrochemical plants in…

After Elon Musk was accused of defaming Ben Brody—a 22-year-old Jewish man falsely linked to a neo-Nazi brawl in tweets…

Canadian telecom Bell Canada has been pushing its cloud-based DVR service to its Fibe TV subscribers for years. While it…

Getty Images | BernardaSv The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet service, rejecting…

Brazil’s attorney general has demanded “urgent regulation” of social media sites after Elon Musk threatened to disobey a court order…

Enlarge / Chicago City Wire is a hyper-partisan website masquerading as an outlet that does journalism. FT Montage The number…

For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since it launched in…

On Friday, Meta announced policy updates to stop censoring harmless AI-generated content and instead begin “labeling a wider range of…

The United States government is currently poised to outlaw TikTok. Little of the evidence that convinced Congress the app may…

Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography California can keep enforcing its state net neutrality law after the Federal Communications Commission…

Google has sued two app developers based in China over an alleged scheme targeting 100,000 users globally over four years…

Getty Images | Nathan Stirk Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson yesterday issued a statement debunking claims of widespread voter…

Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at a spectrum policy event at the National Press Club on Monday, September 19,…

A high-level Iowa hospital systems administrator, Matthew Kierans, has admitted to stealing a coworker’s identity and posing as William Donald…

Ever since Elon Musk’s X Corp sued Media Matters for America (MMFA) over a pair of reports that X (formerly…

Getty Images | VIEW press AT&T reset passcodes for millions of customers after acknowledging a massive leak involving the data…

To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users’…

Aurich Lawson | NurPhoto / Getty Images X used to be called Twitter, but soon it will become “the Everything…

On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images This week, Florida made headlines after passing HB 3, a law banning children under 14…

After backlash, the cloud provider Vultr has updated its terms to remove a clause that a Reddit user feared required…

Getty Images | Charles O’Rear Two lawsuits filed by a civil rights group allege that county jails in Michigan banned…

Enlarge / Has a government employee checked all those zeroes and ones floating above the skyline? If you follow generative…

Enlarge / FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at US District Court on March 30, 2023, in New York City after…

The White House has announced the “first government-wide policy to mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness its benefits.”…

Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called “Ghostbusters,” designed to sneakily access encrypted…

Enlarge / A Starlink user terminal during winter. Getty Images | AntaresNS Starlink’s mobile ambitions were dealt at least a…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey yesterday sued Media Matters in an attempt to protect Elon Musk…

Enlarge / Demonstrators participate in an abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices of the court hear oral…

Getty Images | Dan Kitwood A US judge has struck down a lawsuit brought by X against a nonprofit group…

peterschreiber.media | Getty Images The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking or attempting…

Getty Images | stefanamer Cable and satellite TV companies must start advertising “all-in” prices instead of using hidden fees to…

iStock/Getty Images X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a…

Enlarge / FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (R) departs Manhattan Federal Court after an arraignment hearing on March 30, 2023, in…

Instagram users have started complaining on X (formerly Twitter) after discovering that Meta has begun limiting recommended political content by…

Enlarge / Steve Huffman, u/spez on Reddit, sold 500,000 of his shares in Reddit’s IPO on Thursday AFP via Getty…

Enlarge / “Yes, we offer Internet at your address.” An Internet service provider that admitted lying to the Federal Communications…

Getty Images | NurPhoto The US Department of Justice is angry about green message bubbles. Announcing today’s antitrust lawsuit against…

Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt…

Google has agreed to pay 250 million euros (about $273 million) to settle a dispute in France after breaching years-old…

Enlarge / Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to former US President Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in New York…

Enlarge / Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrive for President Joe Biden’s State of…

Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews of employers, has recently begun adding real names to user profiles without…

Enlarge / Tesla cars sit in a parking lot at the company’s factory in Fremont, California on October 19, 2022.…

Starting in May, Dell employees who are fully remote will not be eligible for promotion, Business Insider (BI) reported Saturday.…

Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Epic Games yesterday urged a federal court to sanction Apple for alleged violations of an…

Enlarge / Dr. Craig Wright arrives at the Rolls Building, part of the Royal Courts of Justice, on February 06,…

Enlarge / Taylor’s C709 Soft Serve Freezer isn’t so much mechanically complicated as it is a software and diagnostic trap…

Enlarge / Signs displayed at the Pornhub booth at the 2024 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at Resorts World Las Vegas…

There are some circumstances where government officials are allowed to block people from commenting on their social media pages, the…

Enlarge / National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy testifies about the Boeing door-plug investigation before the Senate Commerce, Science,…

Meta is discontinuing data analysis tool CrowdTangle on August 14. The closure will come three months ahead of the next…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first…

A recently unsealed court filing has revealed that Meta has sued a former senior employee for “brazenly disloyal and dishonest…

A US federal jury has convicted a dual Russian-Swedish national, Roman Sterlingov, for operating Bitcoin Fog, “the longest-running bitcoin money…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Apple will let European app developers distribute iPhone and iPad applications to users directly from a…

Enlarge / Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building on January 30, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | J. David…

Airbnb, like hotels and rival vacation rental site Vrbo, will no longer allow hosts to record guests while they’re inside…

Enlarge / A LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner taxiing at Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Chile on March 20,…

Caitlin Vogus is the deputy director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation and a First Amendment lawyer. Jennifer…

Enlarge / Meta has a verified program for users of Facebook and Instagram. Getty Images | Chesnot Forty-one state attorneys…

Enlarge / A Google sign stands in front of the building on the sidelines of the opening of the new…

Jacqui VanLiew; Getty Images Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated…

Enlarge / A Starlink terminal used by the Ukraine army for drone operations in May 2023. Getty Images | Pacific…

Enlarge / Tesla Superchargers. Getty Images | NurPhoto Tesla drivers who say the carmaker “grossly” exaggerated the ranges of its…

Enlarge / A promotional image for a Roku TV. Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to even dispose…

Enlarge / TikTok ad at a Metro station in Washington, DC on March 30, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg The…

Microsoft’s AI text-to-image generator Copilot Designer appears to be heavily filtering outputs after a Microsoft engineer, Shane Jones, warned that…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been wrapped up in discussions with…

Getty Images | Aliaksandr Litviniuk Microsoft urged a federal court to dismiss part of The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit…

Bitcoin’s price hit a record high Tuesday, surging above $69,000 and notching past its prior peak price of $68,991.85 recorded…

Enlarge / An Apple Store in Hangzhou, China on February 20, 2024. European Commission officials are probing Apple’s decision to…

Enlarge / This photo illustration created on April 13, 2023, shows the Discord logo and the suspect, national guardsman Jack…

Enlarge / Materials such as steel, cement, aluminum, electricity, fertilizer, hydrogen, and iron will soon be subject to greenhouse gas…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images When a severe winter storm hit Oregon on January 13, Nicholas Brown’s CenturyLink fiber Internet…

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman for breach of contract, alleging they have compromised the…

It looks like Elon Musk may lose X’s lawsuit against hate speech researchers who encouraged a major brand boycott after…

Amid safety scandals involving “many loose bolts” and widespread problems with Boeing’s 737 Max 9s, Boeing is apparently considering buying…

WhatsApp will soon be granted access to explore the “full functionality” of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware—sophisticated malware the Israeli…

Last April, Twitter quietly edited its abuse and harassment policy to no longer explicitly ban deadnaming (calling transgender people by…

Enlarge / Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on September 18, 2023. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Tesla must face a…

Enlarge / Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at US District Court on August 11, 2023,…

The screenwriter who penned the original screenplay for the 1989 cult classic film Road House, R. Lance Hill, is suing…

OpenAI is now boldly claiming that The New York Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products” like ChatGPT to “set…

Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intention to gather basic information about the energy consumed…

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington D.C. in May 2023. Getty Images | NurPhoto The…

After failing for almost a decade to convince Apple to ditch Google and set Bing as Safari’s default search engine,…

Reddit filed to go public on Thursday (PDF), revealing various details of the social media company’s inner workings. Among the…

In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The World’s Largest…

Getty Images Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps,…

Anjali Nair; Getty Images To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services, Google has…

Aurich Lawson | Mars | Getty Images Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from…

India’s plan to let a moratorium on imposing customs duties on cross-border digital e-commerce transactions expire may end up hurting…

Getty Images | Andrey Denisyuk Internet service providers are still providing false coverage information to the Federal Communications Commission, and…

A judge has dismissed a complaint from a parent and guardian of a girl, now 15, who was sexually assaulted…

Thousands of the most dedicated Reddit users will have a chance to snag shares when the company goes public in…

Enlarge / Elon Musk at the New York Times DealBook Summit on November 29, 2023, in New York City. Getty…

Getty Images | OcusFocus A federal appeals court today overturned a $1 billion piracy verdict that a jury handed down…

Law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency have dealt a crippling blow to LockBit, one…

Brussels is to impose its first-ever fine on tech giant Apple for allegedly breaking EU law over access to its…

The European Commission (EC) is concerned that TikTok isn’t doing enough to protect kids, alleging that the short-video app may…

Once again, Cloudflare has proven that its unusual defense against meritless patent infringement claims effectively works to end so-called “patent…

Enlarge / Building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France). The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)…

Enlarge / Musician Benn Jordan, who performs under the alias The Flashbulb, successfully defended his music against streaming fraud allegations.…

After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled…

Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement to tamp…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Apple is removing the ability to install home screen web apps from iPhones and iPads in…

On Thursday, AMC notified subscribers of a proposed $8.3 million settlement that provides awards to an estimated 6 million subscribers…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A watchdog group’s investigation found that terrorist group Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities have accounts with…

Enlarge / Image from Bitcoin Latinum’s website Bitcoin Latinum The cryptocurrency firm Bitcoin Latinum has sued journalists at Forbes and…

A US district judge in California has largely sided with OpenAI, dismissing the majority of claims raised by authors alleging…

Getty Images Apple’s iMessage service is not a “gatekeeper” prone to unfair business practices and will thus not be required…

Enlarge / Elon Musk leaves court in San Francisco, California Jan. 24, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg A federal court…

Amazon rigged its platform to “routinely” push an overwhelming majority of customers to pay more for items that could’ve been…

Dozens of California police agencies are still sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities without a warrant,…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks before signing the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The Biden administration announced…

Enlarge / Climate scientist Michael Mann. This is a story I had sporadically wondered whether I’d ever have the chance…

One of TikTok’s senior-most female executives, Katie Ellen Puris, is suing TikTok and its owner ByteDance, alleging wrongful termination based…

Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device https://flipperzero.one/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Movie companies have lost a third attempt to unmask Reddit users who posted comments discussing piracy.…

Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling gas furnaces…

Getty Images | Jeffrey Coolidge Cable and satellite TV companies are defending their early termination fees (ETFs) in hopes of…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks on the phone in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,…

Enlarge / A worker installs a row of new mining machines at the largest bitcoin mining facility in the US,…

Enlarge / Rows 25 and 26 in the Boeing plane that lost a door plug during flight. NTSB Four important…

Getty Images | SimpleImages Europe’s right-to-repair rules will force vendors to stand by their products an extra 12 months after…

4chan users who have made a game out of exploiting popular AI image generators appear to be at least partly…

The US may have uncovered the nation’s largest “SIM swap” scheme yet, charging a Chicago man and co-conspirators with allegedly…

Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discussed Meta’s approaches to child safety at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing January 31, 2024. During…

Comcast Comcast has reluctantly agreed to discontinue its “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing an appeal of a ruling…

Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy when it dramatically changed the prices and rules associated with accessing its API. The…

eBay has agreed to pay $59 million after the US Department of Justice accused the online marketplace of selling thousands…

Enlarge / US Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) speaks to the press on June 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Getty Images | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on making the use of AI-generated voices in…

Enlarge / Booking photo of Alan Filion, charged with multiple felonies connected to a “swatting” incident at the Masjid Al…

Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at Tesla’s “Cyber Rodeo” on April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images…

Law enforcement is continuing to warn that a “flood” of AI-generated fake child sex images is making it harder to…

Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $55.8 billion pay package was unfair to the electric…

Enlarge / The Citibank logo on a bank in New York City in January 2024. Citibank has illegally refused to…

Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party…

Getty Images Amazon will no longer pursue a $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot, maker of Roomba robot vacuums after the…

After explicit, fake AI images of Taylor Swift began spreading on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter has attempted…

Enlarge / Illustration of AST SpaceMobile’s cellular satellite. AST SpaceMobile Google, AT&T, and Vodafone are investing $206.5 million in AST…

Getty Images | OsakaWayne Studios Republican officials from 20 states, including 19 state attorneys general, are backing Florida and Texas…

Popular apps like Venmo, Zelle, and Cash App aren’t doing enough to protect consumers from fraud that occurs when unauthorized…

Some teens will now have their Facebook and Instagram accounts defaulted to a setting that blocks strangers from sending direct…

The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying records from data brokers detailing which websites and apps Americans use,…

Getty Images | NurPhoto One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s…

Explicit, fake AI-generated images sexualizing Taylor Swift began circulating online this week, quickly sparking mass outrage that may finally force…

Getty Images | Justin Sullivan eBay is laying off approximately 1,000 employees in a move that reduces its full-time workforce…

Amazon Ring has shut down a controversial feature in its community safety app Neighbors that has allowed police to contact…

Getty Images | Bloomberg The Federal Trade Commission yesterday ruled that TurboTax maker Intuit violated US law with deceptive advertising…

Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators, has asked a federal judge to deem unconstitutional a rarely invoked law that…

Meta will allow some Facebook and Instagram users to unlink their accounts as part of the platform’s efforts to comply…

Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023, in Washington,…

OpenAI may finally have to answer for ChatGPT’s “hallucinations” in court after a Georgia judge recently ruled against the tech…

Getty Images | RoyalFive Lobbyists for cable companies and advertisers yesterday expressed their displeasure with a proposed “click-to-cancel” regulation that…

Enlarge / Utah high school student Hannah Zoulek sued Utah to block the Social Media Regulation Act from taking effect…

Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine, one of…

Enlarge / Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu’s European division, testifies for a public inquiry in London on January 19, 2024.…

Getty Images | SOPA Images European Union regulators intend to block Amazon’s attempt to purchase Roomba-maker iRobot, The Wall Street…

Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at a Senate subcommittee hearing on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks during a “First Tool-In” ceremony at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. facility under…

Sam Rodriguez JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail:…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed yesterday when the US Supreme…

Getty Images | Anadolu Google is updating the warning on Chrome’s Incognito mode to make it clear that Google and…

Content creators have spent the past five years developing new tactics to evade YouTube’s policies blocking monetization of videos making…

Enlarge / Meta has a verified program for users of Facebook and Instagram. Getty Images | Chesnot The trouble began…

Enlarge / A Verizon store in New York on July 3, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg Verizon Wireless customers may…

Enlarge / A screenshot from Jack Gamble’s video outing Stephen Harrison as HyperVerse’s fake CEO, posted on Gamble’s “Nobody Special…

Enlarge / Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability. SpaceX SpaceX is showing off the first text messages sent between T-Mobile phones…

For those who trade in child sexual exploitation images and videos in the darkest recesses of the Internet, cryptocurrency has…

eBay has agreed to pay $3 million—the maximum criminal penalty possible—after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts couple in…

For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding its investigation into potential risks posed by lead-covered cables installed nationwide by major…

Popular search engines like Google and Bing are making it easy to surface nonconsensual deepfake pornography by placing it at…

Getty Images | Matt Cardy A federal judge blocked an Ohio state law that would prevent minors from using social…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Amazon today is laying off 500 employees at Twitch and several hundred more at its MGM…

Getty Images | Chesnot The Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account was hacked yesterday and briefly displayed a post falsely…

Meta has begun hiding sensitive content from teenagers under the age of 18 on Facebook and Instagram, a company blog…