A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers
https://arstechnica.com/... Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand. See also Mediagazer
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers
It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions …
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work”
Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …
Section 230 is the last line of defense for online abortion speech, without which platforms could face legal liability for distributing abortion information
Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data
The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …
Some trans and nonbinary drivers say Uber banned their accounts after it treated their documents as fraudulent; Uber says it's working to restore the accounts
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Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
regardless of what type of device it is. Read the Copyright Office's new 1201 ruling here: https://www.copyright.gov/... @internetarchive : TODAY: @librarycongress alters the #DMCA...
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent. Source: U.S. Copyright Office ...
Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review
Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review
Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review
Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review
Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
NY AG's office says fake comments, including 8.5M funded by largest US ISPs, accounted for ~18M of the 22M+ net neutrality comments received by the FCC in 2017
The New York attorney general's office released a new report detailing the effort — The New York attorney general's office issued …
Supreme Court rules 6-2 in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Java APIs, overturning Oracle's win
- The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google against Oracle in a long-running copyright dispute over the software used in Android. — The court's decision was 6-2.
FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :