reader comments 60 with 42 posters participating Share this story Even though Twitter’s terms of service explicitly ban posts glorifying self-harm and media depicting “visible wounds,” independent researchers report that Twitter too often seemingly looks the other way regarding self-harm. Researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) estimate there are “certainly” thousands, and possibly “hundreds of ..
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Enlarge / Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge. Getty Images | Washington Post reader comments 199 with 75 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk’s lawyers have subpoenaed Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko in hopes of bolstering Musk’s defense against the lawsuit Twitter filed over their broken merger deal. The subpoena orders ..
Getty Images | Bet_Noire reader comments 45 with 34 posters participating Share this story Dish Network and Viasat lost their attempt to block one of the key approvals Starlink received from the Federal Communications Commission. On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the Viasat and Dish protests in ..
reader comments 60 with 50 posters participating Share this story It’s been four years since users alleging harm caused by the Cambridge Analytica scandal sued Facebook (now Meta) for selling tons of easily identifying personal information to third parties, allegedly doing so even when users thought they had denied consent. In 2018, plaintiffs alleged in ..
Enlarge / T-Mobile’s Mike Sievert and SpaceX’s Elon Musk appear on stage at Starbase Thursday evening. reader comments 293 with 133 posters participating Share this story BOCA CHICA, Texas—SpaceX and T-Mobile announced an ambitious plan on Thursday evening to provide ubiquitous connectivity from space to anyone with a cell phone. The project would pair SpaceX’s ..
Enlarge / Alondra Nelson, President Joe Biden’s pick for OSTP Deputy Director for Science and Society, speaks during an announcement on January 16, 2021, at the Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware. reader comments 43 with 38 posters participating Share this story Many federal policy changes are well known before they are announced. Hints in speeches, ..
reader comments 179 with 106 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted to sound the alarm that she had been “swatted” around 1 am. “Swatting” is a term for incidents that involve a false report of emergencies like suicide or gun violence that leads police to send a SWAT team ..
reader comments 57 with 37 posters participating Share this story Amazon is closing its telehealth service, Amazon Care, ending an ambitious plan to roll out its homegrown platform to “millions” of patients around the country, part of a long-stated goal of disrupting the US health care industry. A memo sent to Amazon Care staff on ..
reader comments 108 with 71 posters participating Share this story According to a lawsuit filed this week by comedian George Lopez, all Pandora had to do to negotiate streaming rights for two of his popular comedy specials was contact him directly. Instead, Lopez’s complaint says that Pandora considered the comedian a “cash cow”—alleging that Lopez ..
Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images reader comments 60 with 44 posters participating Share this story Data privacy in the US is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal ..
