Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous. [@AssociatedPress]( ) reports on the "deliberate, multipronged and long-term effort by authorities to bring the internet under the Kremlin’s full control." #Russia #Internet #Censorship #Putin #Tech #Technology
AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that don’t want to be scraped. And it’s not by accident, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. [@Techcrunch]( ) has the details, including Perplexity’s response: #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #CyberSecurity
Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke his massive pay package. [@AssociatedPress]( ) reports: #Tesla #ElonMusk #EV #Business #Technology
Vogue ran an ad from Guess in its July issue. The ad featured a model who exemplified North American beauty standards. But there was one problem — she was AI generated. The reaction hasn’t been great. Read more from [@Techcrunch]( ): #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
“Windows 11 is a mess for handhelds, and we've needed a solution for a long while now,” Isaiah Williams writes. Can Microsoft's Xbox PC app win him over? Read more [@TechRadar]( ): #Tech #Gaming #Xbox #VideoGames #Microsoft #Steam
Federal jury in Miami finds Tesla partly liable for 2019 car crash that killed one and left another injured when car was on Autopilot. NBCNews.com reports: #Tech #Tesla #Musk #Technology
Google is testing a machine learning-powered tech to determine the age of users and filter content across its products. The key age the tech giant is focused on predicting? If you guessed 18, you’ve been paying attention. [@Techcrunch]( ) has more: #Tech #Google #AI #MachineLearning #Age18
Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet. (It’s not ready.) From @npub1j302...tme2: #AgeVerification #Internet #Tech #Technology #SocialMedia
Apple slams U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit, saying it "threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart." @9to5Mac reports "the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit focuses on five major aspects of the iPhone experience: super apps, cloud streaming games, third-party messaging apps, third-party smartwatches, and third-party digital wallets." #Apple #Antitrust #Monopoly #iPhone #SmartPhone #Technology
Microsoft just added a bunch of new features into the AI-powered Copilot Mode in its Edge browser. But can it really compete with Google and Perplexity? [@ZDNet]( ) investigates: #Microsoft #Copilot #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Browser #Technology