Illustration: The Verge The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com is in talks with AI companies Midjourney and OpenAI to provide training data scraped from users’ posts, a report from 404 Media alleges. The report, based on ... Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the company behind Pornhub for not complying with state-level age verification rules. The suit, filed in Travis County District Court against Pornhub parent Aylo, accuses Aylo of failin... Texas sues Pornhub owner for not adding age verification requirementsThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images The court hears arguments in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton on Monday. Continue reading… Supreme Court hears arguments on the future of online speech: ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2024 by Adi Robertson
The results for “generate an image of the Founding Fathers,” as of February 21st. | Screenshot: Adi Robertson / The Verge Google has apologized for what it describes as “inaccuracies in some historical image generation d... Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Illustration by Erik Carter AI used to be weird. Now ‘sounds like a bot’ is just shorthand for boring. Continue reading… You sound like a botThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Shortly before The Verge published its review of the Apple Vision Pro, I put it on to sit for some photos. The review unit had been fitted for our editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, but I’d wo... Why does Apple make it so hard to share the ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Illustration: The Verge A report from the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project (TTP) alleges that X has been selling premium subscriptions to subjects of US sanctions, including leaders of the US-designated terrorist orga... Terrorists are allegedly buying blue checks on XThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images Today’s hearing on child safety was — mostly — an unusually focused affair. The Senate Judiciary Committee called up the CEOs of X, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Discord and grille... TikTok’s CEO can’t catch a break from xenophobia in CongressThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2024 by Adi Robertson
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Vision Pro, Apple’s new “spatial computing” headset, comes with a lot of limits. It’s a technically impressive $3,499 device that’s straining against the basic capabilities of screen... The Vision Pro is a computer for the age of ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2024 by Adi Robertson
It’s not Zuckerberg’s first time in front of Congress. | Photo by Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images Today, the US Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from five CEOs of major tech companies: Linda Yacca... How to watch Linda Yaccarino, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2024 by Adi Robertson