2025-02-10

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google found new child safety group

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure su [...]

2025-01-31

Meta Safety Advisory Council says the company's moderation changes prioritize politics over safety

The Meta Safety Advisory Council has written the company a letter about its concerns with its recent policy changes, including its decision to suspend its fact-checking program. In it, the council sai [...]

2025-02-10

New York metro transit systems add on-demand sign language interpreters

It’s a classic New York experience. You’re riding the subway to work, and suddenly the train stops. The lights go off, and you seem to be trapped between stations in a tunnel. For many New Yorkers [...]

2025-02-21

Elon Musk's DOGE reportedly cuts staff at agency that regulates Elon Musk's Tesla

Elon Musk's chainsaw has been swinging through the federal government over the last few weeks, with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chopping down budgets and excising staff at a nu [...]

2025-01-03

Officials Are Worried About Traffic as Amazon’s 50k Seattle Workers Return to the Office This Week

Yet another downside to the tech giant's unpopular mandate may be more traffic jams. [...]

2025-01-22

Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies

Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip [...]

2025-01-03

Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams

Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok Liv [...]

2025-01-17

How to sign up for the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience

The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally official, and while we still don't know when anyone will be able to own the new console, we do know when some lucky people will get to try one for themselves. Nin [...]

2025-01-10

X's new parody labels won't fix its impersonation problem

X is further aiming to clamp down on impersonation by rolling out a label for parody accounts to help make them distinct from the real deal. Users will now start seeing the label on posts as well as p [...]