Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’
Today, our information feeds and social media are largely governed by algorithms optimized to maximize engagement, often amplifying the most inflammatory content. With every view, like,...
The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops
LexisNexis spokesperson Paul Eckloff disputes that freezing was an overreach. The company deemed that step as necessary to honor the requests submitted by Atlas users to...
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard Of
US senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called on government bodies to investigate what they allege is the “predatory...
Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up
Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented,...
New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence
Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week,...
Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?
Lauren Goode: It sounds like you’re a little bit aligned with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were surveyed by the junior college in Palo Alto in...
Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination
No question about it: Nadella’s Microsoft is a triumph. Finally, in the 2020s, Microsoft has centered on the most innovative tech since the PC itself. And...
The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated. Employee retention...
Google Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Its Search Monopoly
To give competitors a leg up, the government wants Google to share its search index and the data it collects about users when determining which results...
Nvidia Says Its Blackwell Chip Is Fine, Nothing to See Here
A large portion of Nvidia’s growth this quarter was driven by data center revenue, totaling $30.8 billion for the quarter, which was up 112 percent from...