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US Supreme Court eyes government contacts with social media platforms
US Supreme Court eyes government contacts with social media platforms
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday marches back into the battle over social media content moderation in a challenge on free speech grounds to how President Joe Biden’s administration encouraged platforms to remove posts that federal officials deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID-19. MORE..
US ban on TikTok would rob Biden, Democrats of 2024 election tool
US ban on TikTok would rob Biden, Democrats of 2024 election tool
If President Joe Biden keeps his promise to sign a ban on TikTok over its ties to the Chinese government, the 81-year-old may rob his reelection campaign of a platform that he and fellow Democrats rely on to reach younger voters. MORE..
US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban
US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app used by about 170 million Americans or face a ban. MORE..
Kairos: Japan’s Space One rocket explodes on inaugural flight
Kairos: Japan’s Space One rocket explodes on inaugural flight
Kairos, a small, solid-fuel rocket made by Japan’s Space One, exploded just seconds into its inaugural launch on Wednesday as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit. MORE..
Toyota and Nippon Steel agree to historic pay hikes
Toyota and Nippon Steel agree to historic pay hikes
Japan’s largest employers announced record pay increases on Wednesday, signaling a break from the deflationary mindset that led to the country’s prolonged period of low economic growth known as the “lost decades.” MORE..
Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets
Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets
A former Google software engineer has been charged by the US with stealing trade secrets about artificial intelligence (AI) while secretly working for two Chinese companies. MORE..
Facebook and Instagram restored after major outages
Facebook and Instagram restored after major outages
Meta says it has resolved a “technical issue” which caused Facebook, Messenger and Instagram to go down. MORE..
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for many users across the world
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for many users across the world
Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users on Tuesday in a global outage that has been going on for more than an hour. MORE..
India gives green light to chip plants worth $15.2 bn
India gives green light to chip plants worth $15.2 bn
India gave the go-ahead to construction of three semiconductor plants worth 1.26 trillion rupees ($15.2 billion) by firms including Tata Group and CG Power on Thursday, as the country pursues its goal of becoming an electronics powerhouse. MORE..
Apple cancels work on electric car, source says
Apple cancels work on electric car, source says
Apple has canceled work on its electric car, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, a decade after the iPhone maker kicked off the project. MORE..
Private spacecraft lands on lunar surface; first U.S. moon landing since 1972
Private spacecraft lands on lunar surface; first U.S. moon landing since 1972
A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the south pole of the moon on Thursday, the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector. MORE..
Don’t dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
Don’t dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
If your iPhone gets wet don’t dry it in a bag of rice, Apple has advised. MORE..
Neuralink’s first human patient able to control mouse through thinking, Musk says
Neuralink’s first human patient able to control mouse through thinking, Musk says
The first human patient implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts, the startup’s founder Elon Musk said late on Monday. MORE..
EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches
EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches
The European Union will investigate whether ByteDance’s TikTok breached online content rules aimed at protecting children and ensuring transparent advertising, an official said on Monday, putting the social media platform at risk of a hefty fine. MORE..
OpenAI will now let you create videos from verbal cues
OpenAI will now let you create videos from verbal cues
Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI introduced a new AI model called Sora which it claims can create “realistic” and “imaginative” 60-second videos from quick text prompts. MORE..
Japan space agency says test flight for new flagship rocket is rescheduled for Saturday
Japan space agency says test flight for new flagship rocket is rescheduled for Saturday
Japan’s space agency says its new flagship H3 rocket will have a second test flight on Saturday, two days later than an initially planned liftoff that was postponed due to a bad weather forecast at the launch site in southwestern Japan. MORE..
OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous
OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous
The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreak havoc. MORE..
Jeff Bezos sells nearly 12 million Amazon shares worth at least $2bn, with more to come
Jeff Bezos sells nearly 12 million Amazon shares worth at least $2bn, with more to come
Jeff Bezos filed a statement with federal regulators indicating his sale of nearly 12 million shares of Amazon stock worth more than $2 billion. MORE..
Apple defeats lawsuit claiming it overpaid CEO Tim Cook, others
Apple defeats lawsuit claiming it overpaid CEO Tim Cook, others
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Apple, opens new tab of overpaying Chief Executive Tim Cook and other top executives by tens of millions of dollars by miscalculating the value of performance-based stock awards. MORE..
Yandex: Owner of ‘Russia’s Google’ pulls out of home country
Yandex: Owner of ‘Russia’s Google’ pulls out of home country
The owner of Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google”, has said it will pull out of its country of origin. MORE..
Google Doodle celebrates Sri Lanka Independence Day 2024
Google Doodle celebrates Sri Lanka Independence Day 2024
Google Doodle celebrates Sri Lanka Independence Day 2024 today. Independence Day of Sri Lanka is a national holiday in the South Asian island country that commemorates Sri Lanka’s 76th political independence from British rule on February 4, 1948. MORE..
Tech CEOs told ‘you have blood on your hands’ at US Senate child safety hearing
Tech CEOs told ‘you have blood on your hands’ at US Senate child safety hearing
U.S. senators on Wednesday grilled leaders of the biggest social media companies and said Congress must quickly pass legislation, as one lawmaker accused the companies of having “blood on their hands” for failing to protect children from escalating threats of sexual predation on their platforms. MORE..
Judge voids Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ $56 billion Tesla pay package
Judge voids Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ $56 billion Tesla pay package
A Delaware judge tossed out Elon Musk’s record-breaking $56 billion Tesla (TSLA.O) pay package on Tuesday, calling the compensation granted by the EV maker’s board “an unfathomable sum” that was unfair to shareholders. MORE..
Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well, the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk said. MORE.
George Carlin estate sues over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI
George Carlin estate sues over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI
The estate of George Carlin is suing the media company behind a fake hourlong comedy special that purportedly uses artificial intelligence to recreate the late standup comic’s style and material. MORE..
