Apple Takes Messaging Crackdown to Customers’ Macs
When Apple blocked the Beeper Mini app last month from giving Android users access to the tech giant’s messaging service,…
Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.
For more than a decade, the pioneers of the cryptocurrency industry envisioned digital coins as an alternate branch of finance,…
Mediapocalypse Now, a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto, and HatGPT
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Layoffs are hitting newsrooms and publishers again, as tech…
Fake Explicit Taylor Swift Images Swamp Social Media
Fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift likely generated by artificial intelligence spread rapidly across social media platforms this week,…
That Spotify Daylist That Really ‘Gets’ You? It Was Written by A.I.
The music-streaming platform’s new “daylist” feature serves users three personalized playlists a day, with titles ranging from quirky to bewildering.…
Elon Musk Spreads Election Misinformation on X Without Fact Checkers
In the spring of 2020, when President Donald J. Trump wrote messages on Twitter warning that increased reliance on mail-in…
L.A. County to Pay $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach
Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the top executive of an election software company who had been…
N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers, according to an…
Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars
Cruise, the driverless car subsidiary of General Motors, said in a report on Thursday that an adversarial approach taken by…
Microsoft, Amazon and Google Face F.T.C. Inquiry Over A.I. Deals
The Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry on Thursday into the multibillion dollar investments by Microsoft, Amazon and Google in…