reader comments 154 OnlyFans’ paywalls make it hard for police to detect child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) on the platform, Reuters reported—especially new CSAM that can be harder to uncover online. Because each OnlyFans creator posts their content behind their own paywall, five specialists in online child sexual abuse told Reuters that it’s hard to ..
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Enlarge / Apple’s Vision Pro scored 0 points in US PIRG’s self-repairability analysis. Kyle Orland reader comments 26 In December, New York became the first state to enact a “Right to Repair” law for electronics. Since then, other states, including Oregon and Minnesota, have passed similar laws. However, a recent analysis of some recently released ..
reader comments 80 Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used to train AI models powering image generators—even when platforms prohibit scraping and families use strict privacy settings. Last month, HRW researcher Hye Jung Han found 170 photos of Brazilian kids that were ..
Getty Images | Kathryn8 reader comments 116 The US Supreme Court today agreed to hear a challenge to the Texas law that requires age verification on porn sites. A list of orders released this morning shows that the court granted a petition for certiorari filed by the Free Speech Coalition, an adult-industry lobby group. In ..
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden (C) speaks during a tour of the TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 6, 2022. reader comments 67 In the hopes of dodging a significant projected worker shortage in the next few years, the Biden administration will finally start funding workforce development projects to support America’s ..
reader comments 47 Keith Gill—the meme stock influencer known as “Roaring Kitty” and “DeepF—Value” who has rallied millions on X and Reddit behind GameStop—briefly faced a lawsuit claiming that he knowingly deceived his loyal followers to reap millions of dollars in gains. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, Martin Radev, on July 1. ..
Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC, in May 2023. Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 177 The US Supreme Court has avoided making a final decision on challenges to the Texas and Florida social media laws, but the majority opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan criticized the Texas law ..
reader comments 151 Meta continues to hit walls with its heavily scrutinized plan to comply with the European Union’s strict online competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), by offering Facebook and Instagram subscriptions as an alternative for privacy-inclined users who want to opt out of ad targeting. Today, the European Commission (EC) announced preliminary ..
reader comments 32 The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library’s controlled digital lending (CDL) practices after book publishers last year won a lawsuit claiming that the archive’s lending violated copyright law. In the weeks ahead of IA’s efforts to appeal that ruling, IA was forced to remove ..
Enlarge / Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrive for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Win McNamee reader comments 323 The US Supreme Court today overturned the 40-year-old Chevron precedent in a ruling that limits the regulatory ..
