reader comments 49 with Yesterday, Canada passed its Online News Act, which requires tech companies to negotiate content deals with news publishers and pay news outlets for links shared on their platforms. As Meta threatened back in March, it promptly announced yesterday that it will be quickly ending news access on Facebook and Instagram in ..
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Enlarge / President Joe Biden speaks on the South Lawn of the White House on June 15, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Alex Wong reader comments 165 with President Joe Biden this week criticized cable-TV companies for imposing “junk fees,” as the Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules cracking down on the hidden ..
reader comments 277 with Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has seemingly smoothed things over with Google after Twitter reportedly stopped paying its Google Cloud bills. Sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Twitter has resumed payments to Google after “consistently” dodging bills that sometimes racked up to more than $20 million a ..
reader comments 235 with After threatening to do so last week, Reddit has now removed the moderators of some of the subreddits that were protesting Reddit’s new API pricing scheme. Some of these subreddits have new mods in the protesters’ place, while other affected subreddits have been left unmoderated. Still others, oddly, saw their moderators ..
Enlarge / An Amazon logo at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 107 with The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon today, claiming the online giant violated US law by tricking consumers into signing up for the $14.99-per-month Amazon Prime subscription service and making ..
Enlarge / Very few modern smartphones can be considered to have a “readily removable” battery, but the Fairphone 4 is one of them. reader comments 174 with Whenever regulation passes that seems to herald the dawn of a new age of repairable devices, there is almost always a catch, a loophole, or at least an ..
reader comments 143 with Child safety experts are growing increasingly powerless to stop thousands of “AI-generated child sex images” from being easily and rapidly created, then shared across dark web pedophile forums, The Washington Post reported. This “explosion” of “disturbingly” realistic images could help normalize child sexual exploitation, lure more children into harm’s way, and ..
Getty Images | numbeos reader comments 153 with Internet service providers in both the US and Europe are clamoring for new payments from Big Tech firms. European broadband providers are much closer to realizing the long-held goal of payments from tech companies, as the European Union government is holding an official consultation on the proposal. ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at the Paley International Council Summit at Paley Museum on November 8, 2022, in New York City. Getty Images | Steven Ferdman reader comments 96 with Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wants the FCC to open a formal inquiry into how data caps harm Internet users and why ..
Enlarge / A still from a campaign video that North Carolina Senator Rachel Hunt (D) shared on Twitter. reader comments 95 with It seems likely that Twitter’s policy restricting advertisers from promoting “abortion advocacy” campaigns could soon be changing. North Carolina state senator Rachel Hunt (D) told the Huffington Post that Twitter blocked the promotion ..
