WorldCat “suffered persistent attacks for roughly a year” The court order, which was previously reported by TorrentFreak, was issued by Judge Michael Watson in US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. “Plaintiff has established that Defendant crashed its website, slowed it, and damaged the servers, and Defendant admitted to the same by way ..
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Verizon has received all approvals it needs for a $9.6 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications, an Internet service provider with about 3.3 million broadband customers in 25 states. Verizon said it expects to complete the merger on January 20. The last approval came from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which allowed the deal in ..
The news comes as xAI and Musk have come under fire over fake sexualized images of women and children, which proliferated on the platform this year, particularly after Musk jokingly shared an AI-altered post of himself in a bikini. Over the past week, the issue has prompted threats of fines and bans in the EU, ..
Eventually, Gordon got ChatGPT to acknowledge that the suicide cases were real by sharing evidence that he’d found online. But the chatbot rejected Gordon’s concern that he might be at similar risk, during “a particularly eerie exchange” in which Gordon “queried whether, perhaps, this product was doing to him what it did to Adam Raine,” ..
“Trump Mobile began accepting $100 deposits from consumers as early as August 2025 but has failed to deliver any T1 phones to consumers… Instead, Trump Mobile has consistently pushed back its delivery date, originally promising August 2025 and subsequently postponing to November and then the beginning of December. As of January 2026, no phone has ..
However, Wednesday’s proclamation warned a second phase of the national security probe could result in “broader tariffs on imports of semiconductors and their derivative products.” Trump has threatened to hit chips with tariffs of up to 100 percent but over the past year has offered carve-outs and exemptions to companies who pledge to build more ..
Kramer, from the EPA, said the proposed rule is intended to curb what the agency views as misuse of Section 401 by some states to block projects for reasons unrelated to water quality. Kramer said the changes would ensure that section 401 “is not weaponized by states to shut down projects for political purposes, as ..
Paramount Skydance escalated its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today by filing a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court against WBD, declaring its intention to fight Netflix’s acquisition. In December, WBD agreed to sell its streaming and movie businesses to Netflix for $82.7 billion. The deal would see WBD’s Global Networks division, composed ..
Ofcom noted that in its view, CSAM does include “AI-generated imagery, deepfakes and other manipulated media,” which “would fall under the category of a ‘pseudo-photograph.’” As Ofcom explained, “If the impression conveyed by a pseudo-photograph is that the person shown is a child, then the photo should be treated as showing a child.” Similarly, “manipulated ..
Critics argue that age verification has never been about protecting children but rather scrubbing porn from the internet. A video leaked in 2024 by the Centre for Climate Reporting showed Russell Vought, a Trump ally and Project 2025 coauthor, calling age verification laws a “back door” tactic to a federal porn ban. Sites like OnlyFans ..