The US Navy is going all-in on Starlink
Originally a “passion project” of Lincoln combat systems officer Commander Kevin White, the SEA2 systems were installed for the first…
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A new group is trying to make AI data licensing ethical
The first wave of the main generative AI tools were largely trained on “publicly available” data – basically anything and…
Germany’s far right is in a panic over Telegram
Soon after the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, a warning, viewed more than 85,000 times, began circulating…
Copycats benefit as Trump slows crypto unveiling
On September 3rd, X accounts belonging to Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, and Tiffany Trump, daughter of the former president, were…
This could be the start of Amazon’s next robot revolution
In 2012 Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of e-commerce…
The Internet Archive loses its appeal in a major copyright case
The Internet Archive won a pyrrhic victory on appeal. Although the Second Circuit sided with the district court’s original decision,…
New York busted Airbnb a year ago. Housing in New York is still a mess
It was one year since New York City passed a law banning most entire short-term apartment rentals on platforms like…
Why is it so hard to completely block X in Brazil
The social network X has been largely unavailable in Brazil since Saturday after the country’s Supreme Court ordered all mobile…
Elon Musk backed into a corner in Brazil
Musk likened Moraes to a dictator, claiming the court was imposing censorship. (Musk, however, has uncomplainingly complied with the blocking…
X works with a GOP consulting firm
X appears to be working with a well-known Republican advisory group, apparently, to address reports surrounding the shutdown of the…