2025-04-24
CivitAI Tightens Deepfake Rules Under Pressure From Mastercard and Visa
CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW content – and particularly their TOS regarding celebrity LoRAs, one of the site's most popular user-submitted content streams, which enable people to use freely downloadable adjunct […]
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2025-10-14
Visa just launched a protocol to secure the AI shopping boom — here’s what it means for merchants
Visa is introducing a new security framework designed to solve one of the thorniest problems emerging in artificial intelligence-powered commerce: how retailers can tell the difference between legitim [...]
2025-07-10
Apple, Mastercard and Visa's antitrust lawsuit over payments has been dismissed
Apple, Mastercard and Visa have successfully dodged a lawsuit that claimed the companies were colluding to maintain the current status quo in point-of-sale-payment card services, Reuters reports. The [...]
2025-08-05
Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]
2025-05-20
CivitAI in New Payment Provider Crisis, as Trump Signs Anti-Deepfake Act
President Trump has now signed the Take It Down Act, criminalizing sexual deepfakes at a federal level in the US. At the same time, the CivitAI community's bid to ‘clean up its act' regard [...]
2025-07-31
VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam's sweeping censorship campaign
Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one high [...]
2025-09-15
Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes
Valve has apparently updated its Steam Early Access policy to no longer accept games with what the company deems to be "mature themes." As first reported by Gamesmarkt earlier this month, ga [...]
2025-04-28
UK regulator wants to ban apps that can make deepfake nude images of children
The UK's Children's Commissioner is calling for a ban on AI deepfake apps that create nude or sexual images of children, according to a new report. It states that such "nudification&quo [...]
2025-09-20
Trump administration to impose a $100,000-per-year fee for H-1B visas
President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: The New York Times has reported that companies will h [...]