Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Apple complies with new age assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.
- Creators and users push back on biometric age-verification experiments. (1)
- Reporter: Apple enforces age checks worldwide, updates App Store APIs. (9)
- UK watchdog fines Reddit over inadequate age checks, major penalties. (3)
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Creators and users push back on biometric age-verification experiments.
Reporter: Apple enforces age checks worldwide, updates App Store APIs.
UK watchdog fines Reddit over inadequate age checks, major penalties.
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Chinese drone-maker DJI sues to overturn FCC foreign drone ban
Jon Keegan / sherwood - The FCC’s move to ban all foreign drones and components is being challenged in federal court.
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Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.
- Delay and backlash — Global rollout postponed amid user outcry. (5)
- Persona vendor controversy — Users distrust Persona; Discord distances itself. (1)
- Technical fixes & alternatives — Company promises credit-card, on-device, inference options. (2)
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Delay and backlash — Global rollout postponed amid user outcry.
Persona vendor controversy — Users distrust Persona; Discord distances itself.
Technical fixes & alternatives — Company promises credit-card, on-device, inference options.
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Wisconsin Reveals Conduent Breach Affected 25 Million Americans
PYMNTS / pymnts - A data breach at Conduent Business Services, an operator of back-end systems for state governments, has affected more than 25 million people across the country, according to data breach information posted this month by the Wisconsin Department of Agricult…
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$200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions
Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the Pentagon presses for broader military use of Claude.The post $200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions appeared first on eWEEK.
- $200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute (2)
- Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines (1)
- Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure (10)
- Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options (2)
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$200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute
Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines
Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure
Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options
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Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year
PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is hoping to enter the stablecoin payment space sometime this year, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing unnamed sources. The move would happen if the Facebook owner is successful in integrating with a third-party company to facilitate stablec…
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WisdomTree Gets SEC Nod to Enable Instant Settlement for Tokenized Money Market Fund
André Beganski / decrypt - WisdomTree is enabling instant settlement for its tokenized money market fund, indicating its product won't be limited by Wall Street’s pace.
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‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - As built-in AI pops up in more aspects of everyday life, laymen are counting on the experts to keep technology safe to use. But one Meta employee’s misadventure with AI has social media users fearful for the future of AI alignment.Summer Yue is the direct…
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How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash
Catherine Baab / qz - After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling
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US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'
tomshardware - A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry's most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding China and Taiwan.
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Apple will start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US later this year
Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - With a brand new 220,000 square foot plant
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings
abcnews - Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data
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Why Tesla is fighting the DMV after already changing its product names
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Tesla has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, according to CNBC. The automaker seeks to overturn a DMV ruling which determined its marketing practices were deceptive regarding vehicle automatio…
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