The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A quick (and extremely unscientific) poll of Verge staffers revealed that some Switch owners have reported multiple controllers encountering the issue, while others have never experienced it, which seems to be mirrored by reports around the internet. What causes Joy-Con drift? Nintendo offers repairs, but they’re not cheap.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A long-tenured professor of engineering had used his university internet domain to post his denialist views, which he had originally published in a book. Nor can we say how much they benefited from similarly permissive policies on YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter. Students, faculty, and alumni all called for the webpage to be removed.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company has promoted encrypted messaging across its ecosystem, encouraged limits on how mobile apps can gather data, and fought law enforcement agencies looking for user records. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many other companies scan users’ files against hash libraries, often using a Microsoft-built tool called PhotoDNA.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Don't freak out, but your gut is right: Your internet service provider (ISP) is tracking your every click to compile anonymous browsing logs they can potentially sell to advertising companies , or even cough up to government agencies in the interest of censorship. Folks on Reddit have some thoughts. What is a VPN? A kill switch.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But as critics are discovering, the law is giving Proctorio an unexpected advantage, allowing the company to shut down criticisms by appealing to copyright law. +. It creates barriers for students who do not own their own computer, do not have reliable internet access at home, or who do not have a private space for taking exams.”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Big Data and the Internet of Things. Like my colleague Jane Zhang at TechSoup Canada , I pegged the Internet of Things (IoT) as something to watch this year.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Based on what users on platforms like X and Reddit have shared, it appears that ​​Gemini 2.0 Reddit However, for photographers and other artists, this is certainly a concerning use of the tool, at least until Google puts some guardrails on the AI image generation feature. Flash doesn't just remove the watermark.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times ’ digital team. Rather, it’s using the paper of record as an example of a phenomenon that happens all across the internet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

When Stable Diffusion , the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI , was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. “We strictly allow only fictional and law-abiding generations, for both SFW and NSFW on our Discord server,” he said.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

workplace antidiscrimination laws that has undergone tumultuous change since President Donald Trump took office. ” In it, Ortiz questioned Lucas’s fitness to serve as acting chair, “much less hold a license to practice law.” “I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

In addition to GPT-4, OpenAI recently connected ChatGPT to the internet with plugins available in alpha to users and developers on the waitlist. The local radio, TV and internet awareness campaign has a slightly more generous timeline of May 15 to be actioned.) based company to stop processing locals’ data.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) Six years ago, for example, Reddit’s laissez-faire attitude toward moderation led a lot of people to post stolen nude photos on the site without the subjects’ consent. Reddit issued such a statement last week.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

The eight-year-old Swiss provider maintains open-source apps, abides by strong privacy practices that have held up in court, provides censorship bypassing tools, and supports internet freedom causes. Under Swiss law, such requests can't proceed without a court order.). No wonder so many Redditors are obsessed with it.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

On the other hand, the number of places where they can easily find new followers on the internet appears to be shrinking, and for that at least I’m grateful. Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. Reddit bans The_Donald. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.)

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Trending down : Hong Kong activists worry Apple may be censoring the voting platform PopVote, which was developed for the opposition’s primaries — an unofficial election that also served as a protest against the city’s national security law imposed last month by Beijing.

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Global Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A brief flurry of social media activity followed, with some offering the view that repealing this law would likely have the effect of turning social media giants into political censors. However, the impact—and the threat—is real for people everywhere on the internet. A chilling effect. Facebook has acknowledged this.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Romm, American Edge is set up to ”navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors.”. India, with its half-billion internet users, is emerging as a key battleground between TikTok and YouTube. Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

When he opened TikTok, he found approximately 210 network requests in the first nine seconds, totaling over 500 kilobytes of data sent from the app to the Internet. First, I think there’s no putting these concerns or the scale of the internet back in the tube. Stylistically, they’re laws. but I don’t think they go away.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Then, Trump quickly threatened Twitter with revenge by signing a scorched-earth executive order that would blow up the entire internet. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Josh Hawley (R-MO), scurried to stroke the president’s ego with deceitful interpretations of law and threats to sue Twitter.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Trending up : Twitter is supporting a campaign aimed at stopping internet shutdowns. European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not. Black Reddit moderators say hate speech and abuse are the norm. Institute for Local Self-Reliance).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

They found that affective polarization had increased faster in the United States than anywhere else — but that in several large, modernized nations with high internet usage, polarization was actually decreasing. Klein wrote: One theory this lets us reject is that polarization is a byproduct of internet penetration or digital media usage.

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