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Today β€” 26 June 2024Technology

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Biden Admin in Social Media Case

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By: Adam Liptak
26 June 2024 at 10:32
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.

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These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online

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By: Cecilia Kang
22 June 2024 at 05:03
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.

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Kristin Bride, a member of ParentsSOS, next to an apple tree she planted after her son Carson’s suicide in 2020. The apple’s variety is Sweet Sixteen, Carson’s age when he died.

TikTok Lays Out Past Efforts to Address U.S. Concerns Over Potential Ban

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By: Sapna Maheshwari
20 June 2024 at 16:43
The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.

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TikTok creators gathered for a news conference with members of Congress in March. TikTok has said that a ban of the app would violate the First Amendment.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

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By: Sheera Frenkel
6 June 2024 at 11:17
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

Β© Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times, Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The campaign focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, including Representative Ritchie Torres, left, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.

Elon Musk’s X to Host Election Town Hall With Donald Trump

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By: Kate Conger
30 May 2024 at 18:34
The social media platform will produce video town halls with Mr. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., extending its push into politics.

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Elon Musk has used X to express his keen disapproval of President Joseph Biden, although he has stopped short of endorsing Mr. Trump.

Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia

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By: Steven Lee Myers
29 May 2024 at 10:00
In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing all by himself.

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John Mark Dougan, who has been granted asylum in Moscow, above, has become a key player in the Kremlin’s information operations against the West.

Saudi Arabia Eyes a Future Beyond Oil

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By: Stanley Reed
29 May 2024 at 00:01
The kingdom is trying to juggle its still-vital petroleum industry with alternative energy sources like wind and solar as it faces pressure to lower carbon emissions.

Β© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

Arrays of solar panels help power the Jazlah Water Desalination plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Elon Musk is Criticizing Biden On X More Ahead of 2024 Election

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By: Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
24 May 2024 at 05:03
The billionaire owner of X has increasingly been using his social media platform to criticize President Biden for his health and immigration policies, according to a New York Times analysis.

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Taiwan, on China’s Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

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By: Meaghan Tobin and Amy Chang Chien
16 May 2024 at 20:55
The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration.

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For years, Taiwan has been one of the world’s top targets of online disinformation, much of it originating in China.

Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation

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By: Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
15 May 2024 at 05:00
Their plan is the culmination of a yearlong listening tour on the dangers of the new technology.

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From left, the senators behind a plan for federal legislation on artificial intelligence: Martin Heinrich, Todd Young, Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds.

U.S. Awards $120 Million to Polar Semiconductor to Expand Chip Facility

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By: Madeleine Ngo
13 May 2024 at 05:01
The grant is the latest federal award in a series stemming from the CHIPS and Science Act meant to ramp up domestic production of vital semiconductors.

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The federal award will go toward a project to expand the Polar Semiconductor facility in Bloomington, Minn.

Biden Announces $3.3 Billion Microsoft AI Center at Trump’s Failed Foxconn Site

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By: Erica L. Green
8 May 2024 at 16:27
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.

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President Biden at the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. His β€œInvesting in America” agenda has focused on bringing billions of private-sector dollars into manufacturing and industries such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban

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By: Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
7 May 2024 at 16:03
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

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TikTok’s office in Culver City, Calif. The company has said a new U.S. law requiring its sale is essentially a ban.

OpenAI Releases β€˜Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

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By: Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
7 May 2024 at 06:00
The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said that its new detector can identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, its own generator.

TikTok, Facing US Ban, Tells Advertisers It Won’t Back Down

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By: Sapna Maheshwari
3 May 2024 at 14:04
Hundreds of marketers and ad agency types flocked to TikTok’s annual sales presentation after a new law put its future in question.

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Blake Chandlee, TikTok’s president of global business solutions, last June. In Manhattan Thursday, he said: β€œWe believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side and that we will ultimately prevail.”

Campus Protests Give Russia, China and Iran Fuel to Exploit U.S. Divide

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By: Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
2 May 2024 at 16:32
America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.

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A protester with a Palestinian flag on a Columbia University building on Monday. So far, there is little evidence that U.S. adversaries have provided material or organizational support to the protests.

TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?

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By: Cecilia Kang
25 April 2024 at 08:57
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

Β© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Experts on tech legislation say that the unique speed of the passage of the TikTok legislation is highly unlikely to be repeated.
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