Supreme Court puts Florida and Texas social media laws on hold
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has put Florida and Texas social media laws on hold, sending both cases back to lower courts for more review.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has put Florida and Texas social media laws on hold, sending both cases back to lower courts for more review.
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The controversial practice dates back to the 1990s when Apple introduced a service called Watson that critics say ripped off another companyβs tool. Since then, small apps have said it has become a pattern.
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Itβs been described as Appleβs βkiss of death.β When the tech giant reaches out to app developers, many fear that Apple is really looking to copy their product. At its annual developersβ conference this year, Apple was accused of just that.
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A new lab analysis conducted for NPR by Arizona State University data scientists shows that OpenAI's "Sky" voice is more similar to Johansson's than hundreds of other actors analyzed.
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is confronting fresh questions about how seriously it treats AI safety. Former employees and others say the company should not be trusted with governing itself.
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The San Francisco-based AI juggernaut says it is re-evaluating its policies around "NSFW" content.
The high-stakes legal battle could determine the future of the popular app in the U.S. TikTok's legal filing calls the ban law an unprecedented violation of First Amendment rights.
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The New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and others contend that the tech companies illegally copied their work without seeking permission or ever paying the publishers.
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The New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and others contend that the tech companies illegally copied their work without seeking permission or ever paying the publishers.
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The measure was included in a foreign aid package providing support to Ukraine and Israel. TikTok vowed to challenge the law in federal court.
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The Senate is poised to pass the bill the House advanced over the weekend. President Biden is set to sign it. From there, TikTok says the battle will move to the courts.
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The bill, now advancing to the Senate, represents the most serious threat yet to the video app used by half of Americans.
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The company on Friday said it has started blocking California-based news outlets to protest a pending bill that supporters say would extend a lifeline to the ailing news industry.
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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes more than 90% of world's most advanced chips, also halted production, but it plans to resume chipmaking overnight.
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After settling a class action suit over the company's incognito viewing mode in Chrome, Google says it will destroy millions of user search histories.
In an agreement released on Monday, Google said it will permanently remove information it secretly gathered when millions of people were searching the internet in "incognito" mode.
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Reddit, the San Francisco social media site that describes itself as "the front page of the internet," is debuting as a public stock on Thursday.
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