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TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard (wapo.st)
18 hours ago Ban

The US IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used by 140K+ taxpayers in 12 states, and claims high user satisfaction (wapo.st)
18 hours ago Tax

Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50+ (wapo.st)
5 days ago Israel Google

Stanford Internet Observatory: AI images could overwhelm federally authorized CSAM clearinghouse CyberTipline, which gets tens of millions of tips per year (wapo.st)
6 days ago AI

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (wapo.st)
6 days ago Facebook Instagram

Amazon confirms that HQ2 in Arlington lost 200 jobs in 2023, missing Amazon's goal of adding 2,500 jobs; HQ2 has ~8,000 employees and plans to reach ~25,000 (wapo.st)
11 days ago Amazon

AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon quietly lobby to weaken a $42.5B program to improve US internet access, aiming to block new rules on poor customers' bills (wapo.st)
13 days ago AT&T

Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years (wapo.st)
14 days ago Senate

The FCC plans to cut its broadband subsidy payout to $14 per month, under half of the current rate; AT&T, Charter, and others are yet to detail their response (wapo.st)
18 days ago AT&T

How OpenAI is preparing to fight lawsuits, investigations, and legislation: growing its staff from 200 in 2022 to ~1,000, hiring ~24 in-house lawyers, and more (wapo.st)
19 days ago

Filing: Tesla settles a lawsuit over Apple engineer Walter Huang's 2018 fatal Autopilot crash a day before the trial was set to begin; details are not disclosed (wapo.st)
19 days ago Apple Tesla

Source: the independent Cyber Safety Review Board's forthcoming report on China's hack of Microsoft will fault the company for a “cascade of avoidable errors” (wapo.st)
25 days ago China Microsoft

A look at the autonomous truck industry's challenges, including a lack of federal regulation, as Aurora and Kodiak plan a major expansion in Texas this year (wapo.st)
27 days ago Texas

MrBeast's “retention editing”, which uses quick cuts and loud sounds, took over social media, but may fade away as the YouTuber shifts to slower, focused videos (wapo.st)
28 days ago YouTuber

Experts say forcing a TikTok US sale within 180 days, as the bill requires, would be too complicated and costly, and likely mean the app would be banned (wapo.st)
2024-3-18

TikTok-funded Oxford Economics study of 1K US SMBs and 7.5K users: in 2023, TikTok drove $14.7B in SMB revenue, added $24.2B to US GDP, and supported 224K+ jobs (wapo.st)
2024-3-14 GDP

The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure (wapo.st)
2024-3-14 Ban Senate

How online group 764 uses Discord and Telegram to blackmail teens into degrading and violent acts, and then boast about it; Discord removed 34K users in 2023 (wapo.st)
2024-3-14

As the House votes on a TikTok bill, expected to pass, the Senate lacks a companion measure and the bill faces an uncertain path; Rand Paul may block the bill (wapo.st)
2024-3-13 Senate

A look at the challenges of academic AI research, as costs to develop generative AI models grow rapidly and tech companies' salaries drain academia of talent (wapo.st)
2024-3-11 AI

US data center demand for AI and crypto mining are putting new pressures on an overtaxed power grid, as bottlenecks mount and utilities struggle to keep up (wapo.st)
2024-3-8 AI

As the EU's DMA takes effect, sources say the Biden administration, which sent two letters protesting the DMA, stopped short of pushing the issue with the EU (wapo.st)
2024-3-7

NIST staff, US officials, congressional aides, and tech executives detail a massive resources gap between NIST, tasked with keeping AI safe, and tech companies (wapo.st)
2024-3-7 AI

More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products (wapo.st)
2024-3-6 AI

Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good (wapo.st)
2024-3-3 Facebook

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoes what would have been one of the US' most restrictive bans on minors' social media use, says he is working on an alternative (wapo.st)
2024-3-2

The US launches a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, saying modern cars are like smartphones and could be used for espionage (wapo.st)
2024-3-1 China

How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers' compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more (wapo.st)
2024-2-27 AI

Leaked files offer a detailed look at a Chinese state-linked hacking group carrying cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies, and infrastructure (wapo.st)
2024-2-22 China

The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans (wapo.st)
2024-2-19 New York Malta

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