Apple postpones the release of Apple TV+ show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies
This is called voluntary censorship. We see it all the time here in the BBC. — www.vulture.com/article/appl... Luke O'Neil / @lukeoneil47 : Apple canceling this show is the first bit of marketing t...
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, with text and image generation across apps, cross-app task orchestration, App Intents, and more
Apple soon will be taking a huge bite … Aman Gupta / Livemint : Is Apple Intelligence coming to your iPhone, iPad or Mac? Check full list of compatible devices Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : There's an ...
Documents show some US courts are using Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn app sold to churches to monitor all online activity, to surveil parolees and their families
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired : Mastodon: @couts@mastodon.social . Tweets: @petersterne , @ma_franks , and @nicolerprause Mastodon: Andrew Couts / @couts@mastodon.social : NEW: An anti-porn “accountability”...
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023
Ahead Of Twitter's Looming Verification Rollback Muskaan Saxena / TechRadar : Twitter's blue-check doomsday date is set and it's no April Fool's joke Megan Ellis / MakeUseOf : Twitter to Start Removin...
An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants
a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, via public record re...
Questions arise about Bloomberg's story on China spying via tiny chips after companies' strong denials, showing the difficulties of national security reporting
China's Chip Hack, Amazon and Apple's Denials, Google's Trust Reversal Kif Leswing / Business Insider : Could spies actually insert malicious chips into computer circuit boards? A manufacturing exper...
How News Corp's Storyful became the agent for the creator of video of Clinton at 9/11 event, charging news orgs “a couple hundred thousand” for rights so far
Peter Kafka / Recode : Tweets: @recode , @mtfarnsworth , @markjacob16 , @pkafka , @petersterne , @librab103 , @mattdpearce and @ap . See also Mediagazer Tweets: @recode : Czech man who shot the Hilla...
Ex-Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a video streaming startup for millennials covering CNBC-like topics, with $3M in funding
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider : Tweets: @ron_miller and @petersterne . Thanks: @stevetweedie . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ron Miller / @ron_miller : Seriously? What the heck is CNBC for millenn...