With November’s election approaching, voters should be vigilant of generative AI’s role in spreading misinformation and enabling election fraud. Here’s how to spot AI content during the election season.
Google fields thousands of deepfake porn complains as victims arm themselves with copyright law
A new investigation found thousands of copyright claims have been levied against thousands of URLs showcasing nonconsensual deepfake porn.
European digital rights group say the future of online privacy is on a knife edge
A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe, have written to the European Union’s regulatory body […]
Microsoft Cancels Blizzard’s Survival Game Amid Layoffs
Microsoft slashed nearly 2,000 jobs across its gaming division on January 25, impacting staff at Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax, and Xbox. And now, we’ve learned that an in-development survival game from Blizzard, codenamed “Odyssey,” has been canceled and most of the team working on the game were let go.
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Apple excludes video and news partners from new App Store rules around external payments
Apple this week updated its App Store rules to comply with a court order after the Supreme Court declined to hear the Epic Games-initiated antitrust case against Apple […]
Epic plans to contest Apple’s ‘bad-faith’ compliance with court ruling over App Store
Fortnite maker Epic Games is not happy about how Apple intends to comply with a district court’s injunction that permitted app developers to direct users to their own […]
Tech for Palestine launches to provide tools to help support Palestinians
More than 40 founders, investors, engineers and others in the tech industry are today announcing a coalition called Tech for Palestine to build open source projects, tools and […]
Google’s new location data policy may block law enforcement warrants that sweep people’s personal data
The tech company’s new location data policy may have killed an investigation tactic used by police to monitor people’s locations, feared for its potential use against protestors and abortion seekers.
Epic Games won its antitrust battle with Google. But what comes next?
Google’s defeat in its antitrust battle with Epic Games was a sweeping victory for the Fortnite maker and a significant upset to the business model underpinning the mobile […]
Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator
Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so. During a keynote at […]