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Google has issued a stern warning, threatening to remove links to New Zealand news content and terminate current agreements with local publishers if the proposed Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill becomes law.

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a recently passed California law aimed at curbing the spread of AI-generated deepfakes depicting political candidates. In his decision, Judge John Mendez wrote, “While a well-founded fear of a digitally manipulated media landscape may be justified, this fear does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the First Amendment.”

The Pennsylvania Department of State’s voter registration site will be down for maintenance beginning Saturday, October 5, originally overlapping former President Donald Trump’s triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly three months after the first assassination attempt on his life. However, it seems officials may have moved the time after criticism.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is calling on Big Tech to censor alleged election misinformation, conveniently ignoring his own history of propagating the debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

Cyberattack that accessed details of all Dutch police officers was almost certainly carried out by hackers working for a foreign government.

Constellation Energy is pursuing a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee to help finance its plan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell the electricity exclusively to Microsoft to power the tech giant’s AI data centers.

Bank of America confirmed that some customers were having trouble “accessing their accounts and balance information,” according to CBS News.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) downplayed social media censorship during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) by suggesting that conservatives should have had their speech censored, claiming their criticism of the government over coronavirus-related issues is equivalent to yelling “fire” in “a crowded theater.”

Arkansas has filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google, accusing the video-sharing platform of deliberately fostering addiction and contributing to a mental health crisis among the state’s youth.

The newly unsealed complaint of the lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Attorney General against Snap, the company behind the Snapchat social media platform, reveals that employees were well aware of the app’s dangers to children, including sextortion, illicit gun sales, and addictive features.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) gave a “damning non-answer” during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate when pushed on the Biden-Harris administration’s pressuring Facebook to censor free speech.

Conservative students with Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at the University of Iowa found their banner promoting a Pro-Israel event defaced less than three hours after it was put up on campus.

Notorious censor and surveillance capitalism tycoon Mark Zuckerberg has a clear vision for how he wants his company Meta to be remembered decades from now — as a technology innovator, not for his apps and their negative impacts on society.

Investment giant Fidelity has marked down the value of its stake in Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, by a staggering 78.7 percent as of the end of August, implying an overall valuation of just $9.4 billion for the social media platform that Musk purchased for $44 billion after attempting to back out of the deal.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he “pled guilty to journalism.”

DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become dominant.

The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) must pay a fine of ten million Brazilian reais (roughly $1.84 million) to restore its services in Brazil, Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes announced over the weekend.

Verizon suffered a nationwide outage on Monday morning, leaving millions of customers across the U.S. in SOS mode, unable to send and receive calls or text messages all morning and afternoon — with no end in sight for those still impacted.

Netflix cancelations have reportedly spiked after the streaming platform’s CEO Reed Hastings announced he’d donate millions to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.

A Tesla electric vehicle caught fire while parked inside a garage that was flooded with saltwater from Hurricane Helene in Florida, prompting officials to issue warnings to EV owners in storm-affected areas.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday approved a license deal delivering leftist billionaire George Soros control over 200 Audacy radio stations; dissenting commissioners called it “unprecedented.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, is blocking links to a dossier allegedly containing sensitive information about Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), which was obtained through an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

The DOJ and Google have wrapped up their arguments in the high-stakes antitrust trial against the internet giant, with closing arguments scheduled for November.

Former President Donald Trump threatened on Friday that he will request the criminal prosecution of Google “at maximum levels” when he returns to office, accusing the tech giant of “illegal activity” through its bias against him in search results.

In a groundbreaking study, a 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells derived from her own body.

OpenAI’s ambitious plans to build AI data centers with unprecedented power requirements have sparked discussions about the feasibility and environmental impact of such projects.

Podcasting powerhouse Joe Rogan has warned his millions of listeners that free speech will be endangered if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz win the 2024 election in November.

Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, found himself unable to walk again after the manufacturer of his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a malfunctioning battery. The part allegedly costs just $20, but the manufacturer claims the medical device is too old to fix.

The FAA is reportedly struggling to modernize its aging air traffic control (ATC) systems, putting the safety and efficiency of the national airspace at risk, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

An expert witness called by Google in its ongoing antitrust trial has asserted that the tech giant does not hold monopoly power over the advertising market, contradicting claims made by the DOJ.

Meta was punished Friday with a fine worth more than $100 million from the social media giant’s European Union privacy regulator.

The social media platform X temporarily banned independent journalist Ken Klippenstein on Thursday after he published a hacked dossier.