reader comments 79 with 53 posters participating Share this story Last December, the United Nations warned of an overlooked but critical “emerging terrorist threat”: extremists radicalizing members of online gaming communities. Despite ample interest in saving gamers from such exploitation, experts say that a lack of research funding on the topic has put the gaming ..
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reader comments 60 with 50 posters participating Share this story Apple provides over half the funding for a lobby group that says it represents small app developers, according to a Bloomberg article published today. Apple isn’t a member of what’s called the App Association, but “it plays a dominant behind-the-scenes role shaping the group’s policy ..
Enlarge / Teenager playing fetch with her dog reader comments 96 with 75 posters participating Share this story Three years ago, Valli Fraser-Celin adopted a blonde husky mix puppy, whom she named Husk. Fraser-Celin soon started looking for ways to curb Husk’s “totally wild” behavior, she said, like stealing food from the kitchen counter and ..
reader comments 295 with 155 posters participating Share this story For the past year, Texas has been fighting in court to uphold a controversial law that would ban tech companies from content moderation based on viewpoints. In May, the Supreme Court narrowly blocked the law, but this seemed to do little to settle the matter. ..
Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. reader comments 305 with 159 posters participating Share this story A Russian diplomat said civilian satellites could be legitimate military targets in a statement that seems to refer to Starlink providing broadband access in Ukraine. Civilian satellites “may become a legitimate target for retaliation,” ..
Getty Images | Chesnot reader comments 409 with 123 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk filed an amended countersuit against Twitter, claiming the allegations by Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, give Musk new legal grounds to kill the merger deal. “Needless to say, the newest revelations make undeniably clear that the Musk Parties ..
Enlarge / Writer-director Joshua Newton and actor Roy Scheider. reader comments 101 with 83 posters participating Share this story This September, British filmmaker Joshua Newton prepared to rerelease his 2009 film Beautiful Blue Eyes. The 2022 premiere was important to Newton, as he’d waited more than a decade to finally share with the world a ..
reader comments 49 with 35 posters participating Share this story After a TikTok accusing Patreon of ignoring reports and knowingly profiting off accounts posting child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) attracted hundreds of thousands of views, more TikTokers piled on, generating more interest. Patreon immediately responded by branding the TikToks as disinformation. In a blog, Patreon denied ..
Getty Images | Bill Hinton reader comments 17 with 15 posters participating Share this story Three Iranian nationals charged with hacking into US-based computer networks sent ransom demands to the printers of at least some of their victims, according to an indictment unsealed today. The ransom demands allegedly sought payments in exchange for BitLocker decryption ..
Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 77 with 40 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s $75 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard faces in-depth probes in Brussels and the UK following growing concerns the deal is anti-competitive and will exclude rivals from accessing the blockbuster game Call of Duty. It comes as the ..
