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Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; source: one of them is PowerSchool (www.nbcnews.com)
18 hours ago

An Arizona man was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison after his deceased victim gave an impact statement to the court via an AI-generated video (www.nbcnews.com)
12 days ago AI

The FBI says cybercriminals and online scammers stole a record $16.6B in 2024, up from $12.5B in 2023; over 60s lost $4.8B, including $1.8B via investment scams (www.nbcnews.com)
28 days ago FBI

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-23

Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership with May Mobility in Atlanta, starting summer 2025 (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-22

Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-11

Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017 (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-10 Facebook

Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-25 AI Elon Musk

Shopify says Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, was shuttered because it violated Shopify's ToS (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-12 Shopify

The US OPM plans to make each government agency's chief information officer a political appointee who can be fired at will, helping Trump exert more control (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-5 Trump

Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-23 Elon Musk

ByteDance's TikTok and CapCut suspend service in the US, telling users “Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok” (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-19 Trump

Trump says he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve after he takes office on Monday “because it's appropriate” (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-19 Trump

Some congressional leaders who championed the TikTok law now want to delay the ban from going into effect, showing how much politics has shifted on the issue (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-18 Ban

An official says the Biden administration is “exploring options” to implement the law without causing TikTok to go dark for US users on January 19 (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-16

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-7 Zuckerberg

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-1 Russia Iran

Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-17 Trump Ban

ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the law that could ban TikTok on Jan. 19; Trump said today he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok, when asked about the law (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-17 Trump Ban

In the wake of Salt Typhoon, US officials recommend Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-4 U.S.

How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-2 U.S. AI

Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-11-19 AI

The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-11-19

Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-11-13 Pentagon

A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-11-5 U.S. Elon Musk

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look at” the plan (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-21

After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-20 Amazon

A bipartisan coalition of 14 US state AGs file lawsuits accusing TikTok of damaging young users' mental health and collecting data without parental consent (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-9

FCC's connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of Sept. 30, 370 of North Carolina's 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-1 Hurricane

TikTok permanently removes accounts associated with the parent organizations of Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing “covert influence operations” (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-9-24 Russia

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