reader comments 85 Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators, has asked a federal judge to deem unconstitutional a rarely invoked law that some privacy advocates consider one of the nation’s “strongest protections of consumer privacy against a specific form of data collection.” Such a ruling would end decades that the US spent carefully shielding the ..
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Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Alex Wong reader comments 207 An anti-voting robocall that seems to use an artificially generated version of President Joe Biden’s voice is being investigated by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office. ..
reader comments 54 Meta will allow some Facebook and Instagram users to unlink their accounts as part of the platform’s efforts to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) ahead of enforcement starting March 1. In a blog, Meta’s competition and regulatory director, Tim Lamb, wrote that Instagram and Facebook users in the ..
Enlarge / Illustration of AST SpaceMobile’s cellular satellite. AST SpaceMobile reader comments 75 Google, AT&T, and Vodafone are investing $206.5 million in AST SpaceMobile, a Starlink competitor that plans to offer smartphone service from low-Earth-orbit satellites. This is the first investment in AST SpaceMobile from Google and AT&T, while Vodafone had already put money into ..
reader comments 258 Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to CNBC Television, he said, “We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 75 European Union regulators intend to block Amazon’s attempt to purchase Roomba-maker iRobot, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. European Commission competition officials “met Thursday with representatives from Amazon to discuss the deal,” the Journal wrote, citing people familiar with the matter. “Amazon was told during the meeting ..
Enlarge / Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu’s European division, testifies for a public inquiry in London on January 19, 2024. Getty Images | AFP reader comments 258 Fujitsu software bugs that helped send innocent postal employees to prison in the UK were known “right from the very start of deployment,” a Fujitsu executive told a ..
Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan reader comments 73 The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine, one of the most important principles guiding federal regulation for the past 40 years. The doctrine, named for a 1984 court case involving Environmental Protection Agency air pollution rules, has been high on the ..
Sam Rodriguez reader comments 73 JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for the Internet. Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s mysterious and unidentifiable inventor, had stated in an email introducing Bitcoin that “participants can be anonymous.” And the Silk Road dark-web ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 213 A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed yesterday when the US Supreme Court declined to hear further arguments from either company. This decision leaves the case where it was after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on it in April 2023. The main ..
