reader comments 138 with Just two weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter in fall 2022, he told employees that his big plan to save the social media platform from bankruptcy was to turn it into a bank. Since then, he has rebranded the platform as X, and banking regulators in eight US states have ..
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Enlarge / Ryan Salame, former co-chief executive officer of FTX Digital Markets Ltd., exits federal court in New York on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 55 with Former FTX executive Ryan Salame pleaded guilty to two criminal charges yesterday, becoming the fourth former associate of Sam Bankman-Fried to enter guilty ..
Enlarge / Karim Khan speaks at Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace during the visit of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Bogota, Colombia, on June 6, 2023. reader comments 19 with For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws that would ..
reader comments 148 with Recently, Elon Musk has made it clear that he blames advocates speaking out about hate speech for plummeting ad revenue on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. But today, Reuters published an exclusive interview with a former Twitter ad exec, AJ Brown, who seemed to push back on Musk’s narrative. ..
reader comments 174 with On Wednesday, American attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to establish an expert commission to study how generative AI can be used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM). They also call for expanding existing laws against CSAM to ..
Getty Images | Andrey Denisyuk reader comments 23 with The biggest Internet service providers will dominate a $42.45 billion broadband grant program unless the Biden administration changes a rule requiring grant recipients to obtain a letter of credit from a bank, according to a joint statement from consumer advocacy groups, local government officials, and advocates ..
reader comments 80 with A prominent anti-vaccine activist, Joseph Mercola, yesterday lost a lawsuit attempting to force YouTube to provide access to videos that were removed from the platform after YouTube banned his channels. Mercola had tried to argue that YouTube owed him more than $75,000 in damages for breaching its own user contract and ..
Enlarge / Everyday witch Samantha Stephens and the rest of the Bewitched crew. reader comments 81 with [Update at 6:56 pm ET: It looks like Rick Klein will be able to keep the YouTube channel running. Sony’s copyright office emailed Klein after this article was published, saying it would “inform MarkScan to request retractions for ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 186 with Did you know that improper food canning can lead to death? Botulism—the result of bacteria growing inside improperly treated canned goods—is rare, but people can die from it. In any case, they’ll certainly get very ill. The dangers of food canning were explained to me clearly, succinctly, and with ..
reader comments 111 with In December, Apple said that it was killing an effort to design a privacy-preserving iCloud photo scanning tool for detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the platform. Originally announced in August 2021, the project had been controversial since its inception. Apple first paused it that September in response to concerns ..
