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Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa. After he failed to appear in court for an immigration hearing, […]
安全
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
科技前沿
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
科技前沿
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cancellations have accelerated.
科技前沿
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
AI 资讯
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
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Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.
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AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
开发者
If Meta’s going down, it’s taking TikTok and YouTube with it
Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it's already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and […]
开发者
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
科技前沿
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead
AI 资讯
All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. […]
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Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.
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Everything Moved in the Same Twelve Days. We Opened a Case File.
We keep timelines for a living — rail telemetry, grid filings, catalog censuses. Most weeks the entries don't talk to each other. Then came the twelve days between August 14 and August 26 , when a federal banking regulator, the world's largest cloud, the White House, a corporate spend platform, a $4 billion stablecoin, an anonymous transaction flood, and the Texas grid operator all moved — separately, but in the same direction. We're not going to tell you what it means, because we don't know yet. What we can do is what any good case file does: lay the exhibits on the table, show you the strings, and write the hypothesis down in pencil. The exhibits Aug 14 — The OCC grants conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company : the presidential family's stablecoin operation gets a path to a federal banking charter. Aug 16 onward — The x402 rail's transaction count detonates: 4–6× baseline for a week, then an all-time record 1.17M settled payments in one 15-hour window at three cents a payment, dollar volume flat. Industrial machine buyers, stress-testing rails in production. Aug 18 — AWS makes Bedrock AgentCore Payments generally available : production agents can autonomously discover and pay x402 endpoints, with a curated Coinbase bazaar in the console. Same day, federal regulators unveil new crypto rules. Aug 19 — Trump hosts the CEOs of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, Robinhood, and ICE at the White House , SEC Chair in the room, pressing Congress to pass the CLARITY Act. Aug 20 — Ramp switches on agent wallets for 70,000+ businesses: corporate treasuries funding AI agents that spend USDC on Solana. Aug 25 — World Liberty's $4.05B USD1 goes native on the Canton Network — the institutional chain Wall Street banks use for tokenized settlement. Aug 26 — ERCOT confirms it will audit ~300 proposed data centers and pause new approvals : the physical layer gets told prove you're real before you plug in . And the scheduled exhibits: Sept 15 — Cloudflare's default wall against mix
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Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Senate candidate Dan Osborn of Nebraska.
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Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.
AI 资讯
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, […]
安全
Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visa
In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, would be […]