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Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media

The Verge

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. Content moderation and curation will benefit users and the public”. NetChoice and the CCIA previously sued over a similar Florida social media law.

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Law enforcement agencies have powerful forensic tools to gather information from your phone

TechSpot

Over the course of 2019 and into 2020, Upturn filed more than 110 public record requests with state and local law enforcement agencies to determine which have access to forensic tools to collect data from smartphones and how they use them.

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Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy

The Verge

Here’s Wing on that: This allows a drone to be identified as it flies over without necessarily sharing that drone’s complete flight path or flight history, and that information, which can be more sensitive, is not displayed to the public and only available to law enforcement if they have proper credentials and a reason to need that information.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

Candid

A nonprofit is more like a public company than a private enterprise in that it’s governed by a board of directors as well as its executive team. By contrast, a governing board is bound by law to oversee management of the organization. An advisory board makes non-binding recommendations to help nonprofits make decisions.

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Winnie-the-Pooh and around 400,000 early sound recordings enter public domain

The Verge

Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh , Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , and other books, movies, and compositions from 1926 enter into the public domain today in the US. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law.

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How Grok 3 compares to ChatGPT, DeepSeek and other AI rivals

Mashable Tech

This, at least in the short term, reinforces scaling laws: More computing equals better model performance, as Mollick pointed out in a third post. AI researcher and NYU psychology and neural science professor Gary Marcus remains skeptical that scaling laws will hold. are cooked.

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Time Running Out To Comply With California Fundraising Law

The NonProfit Times

California’s solicitation laws did not specifically reach online platforms, leaving what state officials called “a gap in the regulatory framework with respect to a fast-growing and highly innovative segment of charitable fundraising.” Wu , a partner in the nonprofit focused law firm Perlman And Perlman. 2] Required Disclosures.