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Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-17 Job Market

Senate hearing: Sam Altman says that requiring government approval to release AI would be “disastrous” for the US' lead in AI, a reversal from his 2023 comments (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-9 AI Senate

Analysis: ~67,000 new or small-time crypto investors bought the $TRUMP memecoin but 80% of them bought near the coin's peak and saw their holdings nosedive (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-9 Trump

Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal information about millions of US residents, sometimes bypassing security protocols (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-8 Database

Internal messages show how the US State Department, in conjunction with trade talks, pushed nations facing tariffs to clear regulatory hurdles for Starlink (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-8

Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, capping a remarkable 21-year run for a software that for many embodied the open internet and hit 300M+ users in its heyday (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-6 Microsoft Skype

Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user's sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-6 AI

Meta AI goes beyond ChatGPT and Gemini regarding privacy concerns, building a detailed Memory file that includes sensitive personal information about the user (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-5 AI

The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual sexual images of others, including deepfakes, and require platforms to remove them (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-29

How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping those with autism and other neurodiverse people understand social situations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-28 AI

Sources: China has quietly exempted from tariffs at least eight classifications of US-made microchips, as it seeks to exempt “irreplaceable” goods (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-26 China

Meta's Oversight Board rules that two posts disparaging trans women aren't hate speech, in the first major test since Meta weakened its policies in January (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-24

A draft executive order sent to US agencies shows the Trump administration is considering issuing an order to create a policy integrating AI into K-12 education (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-22 Trump AI Education

The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies “extreme” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-22 Google Chrome

Sources: Tim Cook spoke to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week about how tariffs could affect iPhone prices, before Trump exempted Apple products (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-18 Trump iPhone Apple Tim Cook

Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, amid reports Zuckerberg asked Trump to intervene (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-13 Trump Instagram WhatsApp Zuckerberg

US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his deputy Wendy Noble (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-4

An increasingly vocal contingent of GOP leaders, some of whom attended Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit, call for antitrust action against Big Tech (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-4 Republican Y Combinator

Amazon starts rolling out Alexa+ to users; sources say some features it demoed in February 2025 are set to arrive in two months, while others will take longer (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-4 Amazon

Sources: WH national security adviser Michael Waltz and other National Security Council members have conducted government affairs over personal Gmail accounts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-2

Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-1

Interviews with 24+ US government workers show many embraced Signal after Trump's return to office as a tactic to shield communications, impacting transparency (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-3-25 Trump

Trump eliminating the USAGM cut the budget of the Open Technology Fund, launched in 2012 to let 24M+ people living in repressive regimes access the internet (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-3-20 Trump Budget

Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused of sexual assaults in 2017, is the undisclosed co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Unciphered (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-3-15 Hacker Intelligence

SEC whistleblower complaint: an ex-executive who is launching a book alleges Facebook built a censorship system for the CCP in a bid to enter China in the 2010s (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-3-10 China Facebook

In an SEC whistleblower complaint ahead of an upcoming book, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges Facebook built a censorship system for the CPP in a bid to enter China (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-3-10 China Facebook

A look at the Trump administration's strategy to transform its traditional press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation via memes, TikTok, and podcasts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-3-7 Trump

Sources: the FAA is close to canceling Verizon's $2.4B contract to overhaul its communications and awarding it to Starlink; Musk recently criticized Verizon (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-28

Letter: US DNI Tulsi Gabbard calls the UK's order for Apple to add an iCloud backdoor an “egregious” violation of Americans' rights and plans a legal review (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-27 U.S. Apple

Some hair stylists, bridal shops, and hardware stores say AI generated “inspo”, taken from platforms like Pinterest, is warping customers' sense of reality (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-24 AI

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