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Meta tests new features on Instagram designed to fight teen sextortion
The feature will be turned on by default globally for teens under 18. Adult users will get a notification encouraging them to activate it, Meta said.CBS News - Top stories - Meta -
Meta Will Blur Instagram Messages With Nudity to Boost Teen Safety
Already under pressure for social media's effects on teen mental health, the tech giant tries to stay ahead of regulators.Inc. - Business -
First jurors seated in hush money trial after drama over Facebook posts and Trump's behavior
The first seven jurors were selected for Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday amid a battle over prospective jurors’ old Facebook posts and calls to “lock him up” and the judge’s warning that the former president should not try to intimidate ...NBC News - Politics - Donald Trump -
US reinstates sanctions on Venezuela's oil
Presented by AFPM — The administration said it would renew sanctions that it temporarily lifted in October after Venezuela did not make sufficient progress toward a fair election. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big ...The Hill - Politics -
TikTok to take on Instagram with photo app
Some TikTok users have received notifications about a new app for photo posts "coming soon".BBC News - Top stories - Tiktok -
Meta Debuts Its Next-Generation AI Chip
As artificial intelligence gets more sophisticated, big tech firms must keep pace with the need for more computing power.Inc. - Business - Meta -
Meta announces it is testing new tools to fight 'sextortion'
Meta says the new tools will better protect young users from sexual exploitation online. But some say it doesn’t go far enough. NBC News' Savannah Sellers spoke with Meta's global head of safety about the new effort.NBC News - Top stories - Meta -
Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Near-Total Abortion Ban Enacted in 1864
The state’s highest court said the law, moribund for decades under Roe v. Wade, was now enforceable, but it put its decision on hold for a lower court to hear other challenges to the law.The New York Times - Top stories - Abortion -
The Evening: Arizona’s Abortion Ban and Iran Smuggles Arms Into West Bank
Also, Iran is smuggling weapons into the West Bank. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.The New York Times - Top stories - Abortion -
Harvard reinstates mandatory SAT scores for applicants
Harvard announced Thursday it will reinstate the requirement for applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, the latest in a string of schools to return to making the scores mandatory. The requirement will begin during next year’s admission cycle, a ...The Hill - Politics -
Biden administration reinstates sanctions on Venezuelan oil
The Biden administration is reimposing sanctions on Venezuelan oil, it announced Wednesday. Officials said Venezuela has not progressed enough toward free and fair elections, and as a result, the administration is reimposing the sanctions that ...The Hill - Politics - Joe Biden -
Instagram trying nudity blurring to stop 'sextortion'
The platform will use AI-powered systems to detect nude images and identify sextortion accounts.BBC News - Top stories -
Instagram automatically blurring nudity in direct messages to teens
Instagram will automatically blur nude images in direct messages sent to users under 18 by default and encourage adult users through a notification to turn on the feature, the company announced Thursday. The update aims to both protect users ...The Hill - Politics -
Instagram to blur nudity in messages in bid to protect teens
Company says it is testing features as part of campaign to fight sexual scams and forms of ‘image abuse’. Instagram says it is deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically ...The Guardian - World -
Instagram updates policy on nudity in direct messages
Presented by TechNet — {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story Instagram updates policy on nudity in direct messages Instagram will automatically blur nude images in direct messages sent to users under 18 by default and ...The Hill - Politics -
Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.The New York Times - Tech -
Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’
Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language models. Staff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in ...The Guardian - World - Meta -
Meta’s Nick Clegg plays down AI’s threat to global democracy
Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chief. Generative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta’s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is ...The Guardian - World -
OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’
Upgrades are part of a wave of new large language models being released this yearFinancial Times - Business - Artificial Intelligence -
Meta AI releases OpenEQA to spur ’embodied intelligence’ in artificial agents
Meta AI releases OpenEQA, a new open-source benchmark dataset to measure AI's ability to understand and answer questions about real-world environments, advancing embodied AI research.VentureBeat - Tech - Meta -
Celebrity Deepfake Porn Cases Will Be Investigated by Meta Oversight Board
Social platforms have struggled to quickly remove deepfake porn depicting celebrities.Wired - Tech -
Meta action on explicit deepfakes under review by Oversight Board
Meta’s Oversight Board will review two cases about how Facebook and Instagram handled content containing artificial intelligence- (AI) generated nude images of two famous women, the board announced Tuesday. The board is soliciting public comments ...The Hill - Politics -
Arizona court reinstates abortion ban law from 1864
Arizona's top court ruled that a strict 160-year-old ban on abortion may be enforced.BBC News - Top stories - Abortion -
Arizona Supreme Court reinstates 160-year-old abortion ban
In a 4-2 decision, the Arizona Supreme Court struck down the state’s current 15-week ban on abortion and reinstated a law from 1864, nearly 50 years before Arizona became a state. The law bans nearly all abortions in Arizona with no exceptions for ...CBS News - Politics - Abortion -
Arizona Supreme Court reinstates near-total abortion ban
The Arizona Supreme Court reinstated an abortion law from the 1860s that is a near-total ban. There is no exception for rape or incest, the law says, but is an exception to save the life of the mother.CBS News - Politics - Abortion -
Tesla to ask shareholders to reinstate $55 billion pay package for Musk
Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a $56 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a Delaware judge this year, and to shift the company’s corporate home to TexasABC News - Tech - Tesla -
Arizona reinstated a near-total ban on abortions. Providers are surprisingly optimistic
There is hope for a different future for abortion in the state even as Republicans flounder in their response. The waiting room of the Acacia Women’s Center in Phoenix, Arizona, was calm and quiet on Friday. Patients sat with their mothers, ...The Guardian - World - Abortion -
GOP rep mocks Navy over backward scope in Instagram pic
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) mocked the Navy Wednesday for posting a photo of a commanding officer holding an assault weapon with a backward scope, which has since been removed from social media. Collins posted Wednesday a purportedly edited photo ...The Hill - Politics -
Instagram to test blurring nudity in messages to protect teens from sextortion
Instagram said it plans to test a new feature in an effort to curb sextortion on its platform.NBC News - Top stories -
LinkedIn betting it can take on TikTok and Instagram in influencer marketing
With LinkedIn facing a slowdown in growth, the company is jumping into influencer marketing, trying to compete with TikTok and Instagram.CNBC - Business - Tiktok -
Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens and fight sexual extortion
Instagram says it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortionABC News - Tech -
TikTok Notes is the new competitor to Instagram. What is the app and how does it work?
To the average person, it looks very similar to Meta’s Instagram – with a few differences. Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTikTok quietly launched its Instagram rival, Notes, in Australia and Canada on ...The Guardian - World - Tiktok -
Why Your Sales Team Should Embrace AI, According to an Executive Who Closed Deals for Snapchat, Meta, and Samsung
John Imah honed his craft selling products and ideas for top-tier tech firms. Now he's striking out on his own.Inc. - Business -
Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Alphabet transparency tools are a 'disappointment' ahead of election, new study shows
A new study concludes that ad transparency tools from major platforms like Google, Meta and X are insufficient for users and researchers.CNBC - Business -
El Chapo asks federal judge to reinstate his phone calls, visits in Colorado prison
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has asked a federal judge to reinstate his phone call and visiting privileges at the supermax prison in Colorado.ABC News - Top stories -
Oil prices fall more than 3% as traders discount Iran-Israel war risk
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Wednesday that "it's clear the Israelis are making a decision to act" against Iran.CNBC - Business - Israel -
Tesla asks shareholders to vote again on Musk's $56 billion payout
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package will go to another shareholder vote in June, after a Delaware court voided it as excessive.CNBC - Business - Tesla -
Meta Oversight Board Reviews Handling of AI-Made Celebrity Porn, Judge Strikes Some Claims of Child Harm Against Zuckerberg
Meta founder dodges some personal liability in multiple lawsuits as Facebook and Instagram investigate how the platforms handled AI-generated pornographic images of female celebs.Inc. - Business -
Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at age 83, his company says on Instagram
Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at age 83, his company says on InstagramABC News - World -
Trump meets with Polish president at Trump Tower
Former President Trump met Wednesday night with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of conversations the presumptive Republican nominee has held with foreign leaders. Trump hosted Duda at Trump Tower in New York City, where the ...The Hill - Politics - Donald Trump