After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn, who has…
Read more Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital RightsWe know surprisingly little about the impact of smartphone bans in schools, says Sonia Livingstone, a professor at the London School of Economics who studies how digital technologies…
Read more UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for ChildrenPerplexity did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement emailed to WIRED, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson compared Perplexity unfavorably to OpenAI. “We applaud principled…
Read more A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News HallucinationsTsai didn’t mention Pinduoduo by name, but from its beginnings, the shopping platform has never made the merchant its focus like Alibaba did: It has always prioritized getting…
Read more The Meteoric Rise of Temu and Pinduoduo—and What Might Finally Slow Them DownIn May 2023, Air India launched safety management software called Coruson, as well as BAM (Boeing Alertness Model), a fatigue-mitigation tool integrated into its rostering system, which is…
Read more Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save ThemA group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being overlooked in vital discussions on…
Read more Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules“Ensuring that a stablecoin retains its peg even under stressed market conditions is a solvable problem,” Catalini says. In an optimal scenario, he says, reserves would be made…
Read more Tether Was Playing a Risky Game, a New Celsius Suit RevealsIn March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their parents’ consent.…
Read more TikTok Sued by US Justice Department for Alleged Violations of Kids’ PrivacyAmazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products…
Read more Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous ProductsThe death of the US government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is starting to result in disconnection of internet service for Americans with low incomes. On Friday, Charter Communications…
Read more The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their InternetThe California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that drivers for app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will remain independent contractors, as opposed to employees. The decision,…
Read more California Supreme Court Rules That Uber and Lyft Drivers Will Remain Independent ContractorsIn early 2022, two Google policy staffers met with a trio of women victimized by a scam that resulted in explicit videos of them circulating online—including via Google…
Read more Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting WorseThe music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group,…
Read more US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright InfringementNeither database mandates nor generally contains up-to-date versions of the records that UBI Charitable and OpenResearch had said they provided in the past. The original YC Research conflict-of-interest…
Read more OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency PledgesOutside the skatepark in Prague, on a scrubby patch of grass, Bartoš leans back into his deck chair as he tries to impress on me that Pirates are…
Read more The Pirate Party Survived Mutiny and Scandal. Now It’s Trying to Rewrite the Rules of the WebA jury in December found that Google broke US antitrust laws through deals and billing rules that gave an unfair boost to its Google Play app store. On…
Read more Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store MonopolyJoe Lubin is in a fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Not only is the financial regulator waging war against Ethereum, he claims, but making a grab…
Read more Ethereum’s Cofounder Says SEC Is ‘Gaslighting’ Everyone About CryptoA lawsuit filed Wednesday against Meta argues that US law requires the company to let people use unofficial add-ons to gain more control over their social feeds. It’s…
Read more A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own FeedOn Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a law that could effectively ban TikTok if the company does not divest from ByteDance, its Chinese owner, in the next 12…
Read more Can the First Amendment Save TikTok?Congress may be closer than ever to passing a comprehensive data privacy framework after key House and Senate committee leaders released a new proposal on Sunday. The bipartisan…
Read more A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
