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US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
13 Aug

US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google

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A rare bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.The move would be Washington’s first push to dismantle a company for illegal monopolization since unsuccessful efforts to break up Microsoft Corp. two decades ago. Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with competitors and measures to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products, said the people, who asked not to be identified…
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Kamala Harris’ Rally Crowds Aren’t AI-Generated. Here’s How You Can Tell
13 Aug

Kamala Harris’ Rally Crowds Aren’t AI-Generated. Here’s How You Can Tell

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Suffice it to say that this mountain of evidence from direct sources weighs more heavily than marked-up images from conservative commentators like Chuck Callesto and Dinesh D'Souza, both of whom have been caught spreading election disinformation in the past.When it comes to accusations of AI fakery, the more disparate sources of information you have, the better. While a single source can easily generate a plausible-looking image of an event, multiple independent sources showing the same event from multiple angles are much less likely to be in on the same hoax. Photos that line up with video evidence are even better,…
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How Politics Will Expand Into the Final Frontier
13 Aug

How Politics Will Expand Into the Final Frontier

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Listen and subscribe to the Voternomics series on the In the City and Stephanomics podcast feeds on Apple, Spotify and the Bloomberg Terminal.The rapid commercialization of space is launching the world into an “era of astropolitics,” journalist and author Tim Marshall tells host Allegra Stratton on this episode of Voternomics.Commercial companies are driving “Space Race 2.0,” from commercial fleets of satellites a few hundred miles above Earth to NASA’s search for private companies to bring back a piece of the moon. Ultimately, Marshall says, entities are eyeing the lucrative prospect of mining extraterrestrial objects for resources needed to provide renewable…
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The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War
13 Aug

The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War

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The Czech town of Roznov pod Radhostem was best known for its rum-drizzled sweet pies and an open-air museum showing off historical wooden houses. Then came an announcement that stirred the sleepy backwater.US chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp. picked Roznov for a new $2 billion manufacturing hubBloomberg Terminal in June. The past few weeks have seen a flurry of visits by property developers, the head of a local university and government officials followed around by television crews. Source link lol
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Musk Blames Attack on X for Delay to Start of Trump Event
13 Aug

Musk Blames Attack on X for Delay to Start of Trump Event

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Elon Musk’s conversation with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on the X social-media platform started some 40 minutes after it was scheduled, with the billionaire tech mogul blaming the delay on a cyber attack.“This massive attack illustrates there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” Musk said when the event finally began. “This is really aimed at kind of open-minded, independent voters who are trying to make up their mind.” Source link lol
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Trump Returns to X With Several Posts Ahead of Musk Interview
12 Aug

Trump Returns to X With Several Posts Ahead of Musk Interview

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Former President Donald Trump posted several times on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, after more than three years of virtual silence on the platform as he gears up for an interview with owner Elon Musk. Trump, who posted on Twitter at all hours during his presidency, was banned for life from the network following his role in encouraging rioters at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. After Musk purchased Twitter in late 2022, later renaming it X, he reinstated Trump’s account. But the former president had posted just once since then — a photo of his…
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Instagram Views for Major Accounts Drop With Meta Shunning Politics
12 Aug

Instagram Views for Major Accounts Drop With Meta Shunning Politics

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A new study found that several prominent, progressive Instagram accounts saw their reach decline by 65% on average in the months following Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to subdue political content on the app.Over a roughly three-month period following the policy’s rollout in early March, researchers at Accountable Tech, a social media integrity nonprofit, gathered viewership data for five prominent Instagram accounts with a collective following of 13.5 million people, including those of Hillary Clinton and GLAAD, an LGBTQ activist group. Researchers found that posts from those accounts, which heavily feature topics such as voting information, reproductive rights and advocacy for…
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YouTube Hate Video Remained Up Even After UK Riot Conviction
10 Aug

YouTube Hate Video Remained Up Even After UK Riot Conviction

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On the evening of August 5, Aaron Johnson arrived at the Britannia Hotel in Stockport, northern England. The 32-year-old man from a nearby area, had come to see what he was calling a “migrant hotel.”’ “This is civil unrest, you know what I’m saying,” he told viewers of his YouTube livestream, which would ultimately number more than 41,000 before it was removed. Source link lol
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Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute
09 Aug

Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute

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Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro has blocked in the country after claiming that the platform's owner had incited hatred and "violated" his own social network's rules. "Shame on Dictator Maduro," , who that the incumbent president had committed "major election fraud."Maduro, who also argued that his rivals were using the platform to stoke political unrest, said he greenlit a proposal by the national telecoms authority to "remove the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, from circulation in Venezuela for 10 days." That's according to the , which said its reporters in the country were unable to access X after the…
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