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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

Sources: the NHTSA is losing about 10% of its workforce through firings and buyout offers, including half of a small team that regulates autonomous vehicles (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-22 Autonomous Car

Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-13 Apple Intelligence

How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their “thinking” process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-10 chatbot

Sources: in a secret January order, UK security officials demanded that Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user globally has uploaded (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-8 Apple

Sources: in a secret order last month, UK security officials demanded Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-7 Apple

Sources: DOGE is processing sensitive data from across the Education Department with AI tools in Microsoft's Azure to look for potential spending cuts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-7 Microsoft AI Education

Google drops language from its AI Principles that said it would not pursue AI applications “likely to cause overall harm”, such as for weapons and surveillance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-5 Google AI

Google drops language from its AI Principles that said it would not pursue applications “likely to cause overall harm”, including weapons and surveillance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-5 Google AI

An analysis of FEC filings shows Elon Musk spent $288M+ to elect Trump and other Republicans, the 2024 election's biggest donor; Musk's America PAC raised $263M (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-3 Trump U.S. Elon Musk Republican

Sources outline negotiations between the Biden administration and TikTok ahead of the ban, as company insiders refute claims that a blackout helped their case (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Some TikTok users say the app has changed, expressing trepidation and paranoia over its complimentary mentions of Trump in its goodbye and welcome back messages (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-23 Trump

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