Celina Pereira via Financial Times reader comments 165 with One evening in late December last year, I received a cryptic phone call from a PR director at TikTok, the popular social media app. I’d written extensively about the company for the Financial Times, so we’d spoken before. But it was puzzling to hear from her ..
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Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Vox Media’s Code Conference on September 6, 2022, in Beverly Hills, California. Getty Images | Jerod Harris reader comments 298 with Following Google’s layoff of 12,000 employees and other cost-cutting moves, employees are reportedly expressing anger about CEO Sundar Pichai’s $226 million pay package. “In the weeks ..
Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on April 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images reader comments 58 with On Wednesday, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan pledged to use existing laws to regulate AI in a New York Times op-ed, ..
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish. Getty Images | olegda88 reader comments 82 with Starlink has abandoned plans to charge data overage fees to standard residential users who exceed 1TB of monthly usage. When SpaceX’s Starlink division first announced the data cap in November 2022, it said that residential customers would get 1TB of “priority access ..
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “an office copy machine in front of a hollywood-style explosion.” Midjourney reader comments 217 with The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is seeking to restrict the use of generative AI in writing film and TV scripts as part of an ongoing strike, reports Reuters. The concerns come at a ..
reader comments 106 with Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday. On top of “continuing to give app developers access to users’ private information” that Meta claimed had been cut off, the FTC alleges that Facebook has caused new harm. Perhaps most ..
reader comments 195 with Since Monday, Pornhub has begun blocking access for all Utah visitors, taking a strong stance against the state’s recently passed age-verification law. In a video statement that now appears on Pornhub’s homepage when Utah users attempt to access the adult site, Pornhub spokesperson Sharita Bell said the law was not a ..
Enlarge / Spools of fiber conduits for broadband network construction. Getty Images | Akchamczuk reader comments 44 with Colorado yesterday eliminated an 18-year-old state law that made it harder for cities and towns to offer broadband Internet service. The 2005 law required local governments to hold an election before offering cable television or telecommunications service, ..
reader comments 149 with Since late 2022, Mastodon has increasingly become a popular alternative to Twitter for millions of users. This is partly because its CEO and founder, Eugen Rochko, has emphasized that the decentralized social network—which operates as a nonprofit—will never be bought by a chaotic billionaire. However, some would-be Mastodon users fleeing Twitter ..
reader comments 160 with Yesterday, Twitter rival Bluesky experienced its biggest spike in users yet. Between Wednesday and Thursday, Bluesky doubled its user base, Bloomberg reported. The surge in Bluesky’s popularity came as some of Twitter’s most influential users began joining Bluesky, including writer-comedian Dril, United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and filmmaker James Gunn. Some ..
