The recent OpenAI saga, in which Microsoft exerted its quiet but firm dominance over the “capped profit” entity, provides a powerful demonstration of what we’ve been...
Recent moves by regulators, particularly in the European Union, may have pushed Meta’s hand with mandates for greater transparency. The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which...
I have interviewed a lot of cosmetic surgeons and cosmetic injectors over the years who tell me that patients use the filters and photo-editing tools that...
This kind of legalese can be hard to parse, particularly when it deals with technology that is changing at such a rapid pace. But what it...
1 Meta has started blocking news in CanadaPublishers have branded the decision an abuse of power. (The Verge)+ And the US could be next. (Vox)+ The...
The Canadian Senate has passed legislation requiring websites like Google and Meta to compensate news organizations for information that has been syndicated or repurposed. This occurs...
The government of Malaysia has threatened to file a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, for failing to remove illegal or inappropriate material from Facebook....
But another big issue is at stake that has received much less attention: depending on the outcome of the case, individual users of sites may suddenly...
China recently published a draft law on its forthcoming social credit system, which will eventually guide how the country builds it. The system is intended to...
So its current strategy seems to be to release a string of updates to see what might get people interested—a “throw spaghetti at the wall and...