Enlarge / Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine. Getty Images | Washington Post reader comments 109 with 71 posters participating Share this story Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the software engineer who was previously put on paid leave after claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient. Google said Lemoine, who worked in the company’s Responsible AI ..
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reader comments 240 with 141 posters participating Share this story While YouTube has started deleting videos promoting false information on abortion, the South Carolina Senate introduced a new bill that strives to block Internet users from talking about abortion truthfully online. Known as the “Equal Protection at Conception—No Exceptions—Act,” the bill would ban any website ..
Enlarge / Screenshot from One America News Network’s press kit. One America News Network reader comments 240 with 133 posters participating Share this story One America News Network is about to lose its last major TV distributor. After being removed from DirecTV in early April, the right-wing network was still aired on Verizon Fios. But ..
reader comments 100 with 78 posters participating Share this story When Amazon launched Amazon Care to its employees in 2019, the goal was to test the product before rolling it out nationwide. After that rollout happened earlier this year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told Insider that the expansion would “fundamentally” change the health care game ..
reader comments 110 with 82 posters participating Share this story US Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) want to ban Internet data caps. The senators today introduced the “Uncap America Act,” which would “prohibit predatory data caps that force families to pay high costs and unnecessary fees to access high-speed broadband,” they ..
Getty Images | peterhowell reader comments 48 with 30 posters participating Share this story Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has ordered mobile carriers to explain what geolocation data they collect from customers and how they use it. Rosenworcel’s probe could be the first step toward stronger action—but the agency’s authority in this area is ..
reader comments 213 with 107 posters participating Share this story After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Google formed its exit strategy from Russia, suspending all ads by March, then blocking Play Store app sales and removing most of its employees by May. After that, Google has only continued to provide free services to Russian Internet users, ..
reader comments 60 with 46 posters participating Share this story For years, people have wondered not if, but how much, the Department of Homeland Security accesses mobile location data to monitor US citizens. This week, the American Civil Liberties Union released thousands of heavily redacted pages of documents that provide a “glimpse” of how DHS ..
Getty Images | Chesnot reader comments 459 with 177 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has lost his attempt to delay the Twitter trial until next year. Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick scheduled a five-day trial for October, rejecting Musk’s request for a trial in February 2023. McCormick’s ruling came far closer ..
reader comments 198 with 95 posters participating Share this story This is not the summer that Americans want to deal with an unknown number of cryptocurrency firms unexpectedly flooding the power grid. More Americans are already expecting to experience rolling blackouts as the nation’s power grid strains against record heat and drought conditions currently spiking ..
