When Apple blocked the Beeper Mini app last month from giving Android users access to the tech giant’s messaging service, Beeper encouraged customers to use their Mac computers instead to connect and continue sending messages. But in recent days, dozens of Beeper customers have reported that they no longer have access to Apple’s messaging service…
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Layoffs are hitting newsrooms and publishers again, as tech platforms, ad markets and artificial intelligence reshape the internet. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton have ideas for solutions. Then, one of the most influential investors in crypto companies lays out where the industry went wrong,…
Fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift probably generated by artificial intelligence spread rapidly across social media platforms this week, disturbing fans who saw them and reigniting calls from lawmakers to protect women and crack down on the platforms and technology that spread such images. One image shared by a user on X, formerly Twitter,…
IPhone users are handing over their personal data with a click of a button, new research finds. Popular apps like Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X are harvesting user information through notifications, even when the user opts not to open their alerts. Even more concerning, it’s not entirely clear why the tech companies are collecting the…
Meta further tightened restrictions to prevent strangers from directly contacting underage users on Thursday — a move critics said is long overdue as concerns mount about child safety on Facebook and Instagram. The new rules were revealed on Thursday as Meta faces a series of explosive lawsuits — including a sweeping salvo from 33 states…
Mark Zuckerberg has kept relatively mum about antisemitism at Harvard — but he’s expected to break his silence on Friday as he endorses a Silicon Valley mogul to join a powerful panel that supervises the embattled Ivy League university, On The Money has learned. Sam Lessin — a tech investor and former Facebook employee who…
The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it had issued orders to OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Anthropic, requiring them to provide information on recent investments and partnerships involving generative AI companies and cloud service providers. The orders are part of an inquiry that “will scrutinize corporate partnerships and investments with AI providers to build a…
Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the top executive of an election software company who had been arrested and charged in 2022 with mishandling voter data in a case that prosecutors dropped a few weeks later, the executive’s lawyer said this week. The payment, which settles a lawsuit filed last year, is…
Cruise, the driverless car subsidiary of General Motors, said in a report on Thursday that an adversarial approach taken by its top executives toward regulators had led to a cascade of events that ended with a nationwide suspension of Cruise’s fleet. The roughly 100-page report was compiled by a law firm that Cruise hired to…
The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers, according to an unclassified letter by the agency. The letter, addressed to a Democratic senator and obtained by The New York Times, offered few details about the nature of the data other than to stress that it did…
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