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Jan 13 • 4 months ago

Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate.

WBD calls Paramount's lawsuit "meritless" and its offer deficient. ...

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Jan 12 • 4 months ago

UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship

Grok tests if UK can penalize platforms for sexualized deepfakes generated by AI. ...

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Jan 10 • 4 months ago

Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors from viewing porn. ...

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Jan 10 • 4 months ago

SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites

Including previous approvals, Starlink can now deploy 15,000 Gen2 satellites. ...

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Jan 09 • 4 months ago

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

Faced with a ban in the United Kingdom, X pushes flawed fix to CSAM problem. ...

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Jan 09 • 4 months ago

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service. ...

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Jan 09 • 4 months ago

Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices

FCC says new category of devices "can operate outdoors and at higher power." ...

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Jan 08 • 4 months ago

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

Expert explains how simple it could be to tweak Grok to block CSAM outputs. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”

Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

"Jamming will block all communications," including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC. ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs

The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate. ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats. ...

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