Published on: 2025-04-21 23:36:44
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A federal judge has struck down an Ohio law that would’ve required children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media platforms. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Algenon Marbley ruled that the law is unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment. Signed in 2023, Ohio’s Social Media Parental Notification Act
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Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies, and to challenge the power that Trump has bestowed upon Elon Musk to disrupt the federal government. Public outcry and acts of civil disobedience have become more commonplace over the past several years, as citizens have challenged Trump’s threats to women' s rights, travel bans from foreign nations and deportation policies, police brutality aga
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No, Gumroad Did Not Become Open Source Today Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News: Unfortunately though, this uses a custom license which wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source, and therefore wouldn’t be widely regarded as open source so calling this open source could be misleading to many. W
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In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking. Despite heavy pressure from the Interior Ministry, lawmakers voted Thursday night (article in French) to strike down a provision that would have forced messaging platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to allow hidden access to private co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 14:35:11
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking. Despite heavy pressure from the Interior Ministry, lawmakers voted Thursday night (article in French) to strike down a provision that would have forced messaging platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to allow hidden access to private co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 14:07:29
Since the first publicly available large language model (LLM) ChatGPT hit the scene in November of 2022, the tech has exploded. AI has infested search engines, social media platforms, customer service portals, job interviews, and news articles. Despite being marketed as "artificial intelligence," LLMs are decidedly not intelligent on their own, but rather crafty algorithms made to look smart, thanks to clever engineering and no small amount of your data. Evidently that's a lesson Yale administ
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In Brief Privacy rights groups have called on Apple’s legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) version of its iCloud storage service to be heard in public, rather than behind closed doors. The existence of the order emerged via press reports last month. Apple went on to confirm it was closing the Advanced Data Protection service to U.K. users. But the surveillance order requiring it to grant law enforcement access to data stored wit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 08:22:59
Digital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade. A report released by the internet rights group Access Now and #KeepItOn, a coalition of hundreds of civil society organisations worldwide, found there were 21 shutdowns in 15 African countries, surpassing the existing record of 19 shutdowns in 2020 and 2021. Authorities in Comoros, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritius joined re
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What is the best internet provider in Killeen? CNET recommends Spectrum as the best internet service provider for most households in Killeen, Texas. For one thing, Spectrum has one of the cheapest plans around at $30 monthly. If that isn't enough to tempt you, you also get unlimited data without having to sign a contract. Of course, if you'd prefer another ISP, Brightspeed and T-Mobile Home Internet are also great options for broadband in the city. Both T-Mobile and Verizon offer an extra disc
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On Wednesday, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and something feels off. I read, and re-read the new Terms of Use and while much of it reads like standard boilerplate from any tech company, there’s a new section that is unexpected: When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of F
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