GM To Run Robot Cars In San Francisco Without Human Backups Via AP News: General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit says it will pull the human backup drivers from its vehicles in San Francisco by the end of the year. Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said in a statement that the company got a permit Thursday from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to let the cars travel on their own. The […]
Facebook and Twitter try to limit ‘NY Post’ story on Joe Biden's son Via Engadget: Facebook and Twitter are both taking steps to slow the spread of a New York Post story that claimed to have obtained emails from the laptop of Joe Biden’s son. Though the New York Post has called the emails “a smoking gun,” the origins and authenticity of the messages are murky at best, and experts […]
U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Ban On New TikTok Downloads Via Reuters: A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington issued the preliminary injunction in a brief order late on Sunday. He declined “at this time” […]
Facebook Oversight Board To Start Operating In October Via AP News: Facebook’s long-awaited oversight board that will act as a referee on whether specific content is allowed on the tech giant’s platforms is set to launch in October. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said two years ago that he was setting up the quasi-independent board, following intense criticism that the company wasn’t moving fast enough to remove misinformation, hate speech and malign […]
Trump Administration Moves Toward Antitrust Action Against Google Via USAToday: As the Trump administration moves toward antitrust action against search giant Google, it's campaigning to enlist support from sympathetic state attorneys general across the country. And President Donald Trump pushed his campaign against Big Tech on Wednesday, touting curbs on legal protections for social media platforms he denounces as biased against conservative views. "In recent years, a small group of […]
Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras Via Erasebook.info: Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras. The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used. Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering […]
China's ByteDance gets Trump nod to avoid TikTok shutdown Via Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he supported a deal in principle that would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States, even as it appeared to conflict with his earlier order for China's ByteDance to divest the video app. ByteDance was racing to avoid a crackdown on TikTok after the U.S. Commerce Department said on […]
Facebook Launches New Hub To Censor Public On Climate Change Via CNBC: Facebook on Monday night announced it will launch a new information hub to provide its users with “science-based information” about climate change. It said a link to the hub will appear when people search for information related to climate change on Facebook, or when people see certain posts related to the subject. The climate change hub comes after the […]
Oracle Chosen By ByteDance To Save TikTok U.S. Operations Via Reuters: Oracle beat Microsoft in the battle for the U.S. arm of TikTok with a deal structured as a partnership rather than an outright sale to try to navigate geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Washington, people familiar with the matter said. ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, had been in talks to divest the U.S. business of its hugely popular short-video app […]
