Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of where society is and readjust how they approach content moderation and policies.
rumored 1 article 2025-01-08
Mark Zuckerberg's team elections content_moderation_policy
Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”
Bloomberg · 2025-01-08 · #6
The European Commission says EU rules require removal only of illegal content, not broad institutionalised censorship.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-08
European Commission illegal content removal
Despite scaling back U.S. moderation, Meta must navigate stiffer regulations in Europe and other stricter regions.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-08
Meta Europe
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms handle content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe
Washington Post · 2025-01-08 · #2
Meta is overhauling its fact-checking approach, deepening a schism in how platforms handle content moderation between the U.S. and stricter regions like Europe.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-08
Meta platforms U.S. Europe
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms handle content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe
Washington Post · 2025-01-08 · #2
Meta will rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts instead of using third-party fact-checkers.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-07
Meta users notes or corrections to posts
The UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law does not cover deepfakes.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-07
United Kingdom revenge porn (2015) deepfakes
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn't cover deepfakes
Reuters · 2025-01-07 · #20
UK government plans to make creating and sharing sexually explicit deepfakes a criminal offence.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-07
UK government sexually explicit deepfakes
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn't cover deepfakes
Reuters · 2025-01-07 · #20
Meta announces an overhaul to lift restrictions on topics considered part of mainstream discourse (e.g., immigration and gender) and to refocus moderation on illegal and high-severity violations.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-07
Meta topics that are part of mainstream discourse immigration gender illegal and high-severity violations
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations”
TechCrunch · 2025-01-07 · #15
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announces that Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept its Matter certification for their 'Works With' smart home programs.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-07
Connectivity Standards Alliance Apple Google Samsung Matter certification
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announces that Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept its Matter certification for their “Works With” smart home programs
The Verge · 2025-01-07 · #44
The U.S. NHTSA opens a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla vehicles after reports of four crashes involving the 'Actually Smart Summon' driverless feature.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-07
NHTSA U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Tesla vehicles Actually Smart Summon driverless feature
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over reports of four reported crashes involving its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature
Reuters · 2025-01-07 · #27
Sam Altman discusses AI safety.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-06
Sam Altman AI safety
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's and ChatGPT's first few years, his removal as CEO, OpenAI's structure, AGI, AI safety, nuclear fusion, Trump, Musk, and more
Bloomberg · 2025-01-06 · #4
Sources report India plans about $2.7B in fresh subsidies and import tariff cuts to boost local manufacturing, especially smartphones made by companies like Apple; final decision to be made by the cabinet and details likely to appear in the budget.
rumored 1 article 2025-01-06
India smartphone makers Apple
Sources: India plans ~$2.7B in fresh subsidies and import tariff cuts to help boost local manufacturing, especially of smartphones made by companies like Apple
Bloomberg · 2025-01-06 · #8
Chinese VCs are having founders who don't pay added to China's national debtor blacklist.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-06
Chinese venture capitalists failed founders national debtor blacklist
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders' personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don't pay, throwing China's funding ecosystem into crisis
Financial Times · 2025-01-06 · #17
None of the Core Ultra 200 series laptop CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft's Copilot+.
failed 1 article 2025-01-06
Intel Microsoft Copilot+
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft's Copilot+
Ars Technica · 2025-01-06 · #18
OFAC (U.S. Department of the Treasury) sanctioned Beijing-based cybersecurity firm Integrity Technology Group for its role in multiple computer intrusion incidents and alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
U.S. Department of the Treasury (Office of Foreign Assets Control) Integrity Technology Group
The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group over its alleged links to attacks by China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon
TechCrunch · 2025-01-05 · #27
Some reports state the draft rules were released without any penal clause.
rumored 1 article 2025-01-05
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Hindu · 2025-01-05 · #4
The CrowdStrike incident has heightened scrutiny from regulators and business leaders over third-party vendor access to the Windows kernel and core systems.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
CrowdStrike regulators business leaders
CrowdStrike, whose botched software update caused a global IT outage in July 2024, has more than recovered the $30B in market value it shed after the crisis
Financial Times · 2025-01-05 · #7
The reporting characterizes Guam as a U.S. territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily.
rumored 1 article 2025-01-05
Guam defending Taiwan
How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD's sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily
Bloomberg · 2025-01-05 · #8
Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu pledge to improve their algorithms and address misuse following a Chinese campaign launched in November 2024 targeting typical algorithm issues.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Douyin Pinduoduo Xiaohongshu algorithms misuse of algorithms
Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms”
South China Morning Post · 2025-01-05 · #9
Huawei is flourishing despite tough U.S. sanctions, demonstrating the company's resilience.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Huawei U.S. sanctions
How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China
Washington Post · 2025-01-05 · #11
Globalization is weakening ('on the ropes') amid sanctions on firms like Huawei and rising U.S.\u2013China tensions.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
globalization
How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China
Washington Post · 2025-01-05 · #11
President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Joe Biden Tim Gill
Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software company Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist
Denver Post · 2025-01-05 · #13
The UK Competition and Markets Authority is trialling an AI-backed tool that scrapes data to detect collusion among companies bidding for public contracts.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Competition and Markets Authority companies bidding for public contracts
The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies that collude when bidding for public contracts, amid a “significant risk of bid-rigging” by contractors
Financial Times · 2025-01-05 · #14
The CMA warns of a 'significant risk of bid-rigging' by contractors in public procurement.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Competition and Markets Authority contractors
The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies that collude when bidding for public contracts, amid a “significant risk of bid-rigging” by contractors
Financial Times · 2025-01-05 · #14
The CMA suggests the AI tool has the potential to drive 'billions of savings' by detecting collusion in public contract bidding.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Competition and Markets Authority
The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies that collude when bidding for public contracts, amid a “significant risk of bid-rigging” by contractors
Financial Times · 2025-01-05 · #14
MeitY/Government of India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 for implementation of the DPDP Act, 2023.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Hindu · 2025-01-05 · #4
The draft rules are meant to operationalize and enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Hindu · 2025-01-05 · #4
The draft rules have been published for public consultation/comments, with feedback invited (deadline cited as 18 February 2025).
confirmed 1 article 2025-01-05
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology public stakeholders
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Hindu · 2025-01-05 · #4
The draft proposes that children below 18 must obtain parental consent to create social media accounts.
rumored 1 article 2025-01-05
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 Government of India children under 18 social media accounts
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Hindu · 2025-01-05 · #4
The draft proposes localisation requirements for personal data, potentially affecting large tech companies.
rumored 1 article 2025-01-05
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 personal data
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Hindu · 2025-01-05 · #4