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In the wake of Salt Typhoon, US officials recommend Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers (www.nbcnews.com)
7 days ago U.S.

How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages (www.nbcnews.com)
10 days ago U.S. AI

Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists (www.nbcnews.com)
22 days ago AI

The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)
23 days ago

Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 (www.nbcnews.com)
29 days ago Pentagon

A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-11-5 U.S. Elon Musk

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look at” the plan (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-21

After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-20 Amazon

A bipartisan coalition of 14 US state AGs file lawsuits accusing TikTok of damaging young users' mental health and collecting data without parental consent (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-9

FCC's connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of Sept. 30, 370 of North Carolina's 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-10-1 Hurricane

TikTok permanently removes accounts associated with the parent organizations of Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing “covert influence operations” (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-9-24 Russia

Analysis: Elon Musk, apparently unaware of Tenet Media's alleged Russian funding, replied to or reposted content from accounts tied to Tenet at least 60 times (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-9-19 Russia Elon Musk

Meta says it's banning Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden admin accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-9-17 Russia

Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-9-4 Israel

Three child safety advocacy groups from the US, UK, and Canada say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-8-28 Canada

Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted to X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated ~1.2B views and none displayed a Community Note (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-8-9 Elon Musk

ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot seemingly drew on conservative misinformation to repeat a false claim about CNN's debate broadcast being on a “1-2 minute delay” (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-6-28 Microsoft

NY passes legislation to ban social media platforms from using “addictive” recommendation algorithms for users under 18; Gov. Hochul is likely to sign the bill (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-6-8 Algorithm Ban

An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in 48 hours, likely one of the first viral AI activist images (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-30 AI Instagram

Steve Kramer, the political consultant who admitted to commissioning the deepfake robocall of Biden, has been indicted in New Hampshire and faces five counts (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-23

Scarlett Johansson says she declined to voice ChatGPT, and when she heard Sky she was “shocked” that Sam Altman would pursue a voice so “eerily similar” to hers (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-21

At the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd said the future of dating could have digital, AI-powered personas setting each other up (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-11 AI

Biden is expected to sign the REPORT Act next week; the bipartisan bill targets child sextortion online through new CSAM reporting requirements and more (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-5

Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-4 AI

Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-2

SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-5-1 Texas

The Biden campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, with “enhanced security measures”, to help “meet voters where they are” (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-4-25

Experts say the US government and tech companies are failing to mount a clear response to the theft of trade secrets by Chinese corporate and government spies (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-4-7 China

A Washington state judge barred the use of AI-enhanced video as trial evidence in a ruling that experts say may be the first-of-its-kind in a US criminal court (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-4-4 AI

X promotes Kylie McRoberts to Head of Safety, after Ella Irwin left in June 2023, when Musk overruled a decision that limited the spread of an anti-trans video (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-4-3

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