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56 votes
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Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
22 votes -
America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
40 votes -
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history.
7 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
45 votes -
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
26 votes -
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware
38 votes -
Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Pierre Poilievre
36 votes -
"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
33 votes -
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
34 votes -
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence
24 votes -
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
27 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
49 votes -
Much of the innovation in natural language processing comes from the US, resulting in an English language bias – Finland decided to change the game with a collective approach
12 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron
12 votes -
Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone app payments to competition
8 votes -
Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready
16 votes -
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants
27 votes -
Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence
3 votes -
Brazilian supreme court Minister to take legal action against Telegram
3 votes -
The world's cleanest railway
4 votes -
Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI
4 votes -
What is your earliest memory of the internet?
When did you first get on the internet? What do you remember of that time?
23 votes -
What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
6 votes -
US Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
11 votes -
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
18 votes -
Accessibility Week on The Verge
6 votes -
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
11 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
Webcams
There was a very brief period of time in the late 90s early 00s when the word “webcam” had just started existing and entering the popular discourse; and where that word was practically synonymous...
There was a very brief period of time in the late 90s early 00s when the word “webcam” had just started existing and entering the popular discourse; and where that word was practically synonymous with “sex show”.
I think around the time I first heard that word, having a webcam usually meant you would use it to do nude shows with.
They weren’t integrated with computers back then (laptops were super expensive and not popular yet, and they weren’t a mainstream laptop accessory until way later). So if you had a webcam, you had to really seek it out and pay quite a bit of money for it. It made little sense for people to buy them just to use them for personal reasons and most jobs didn’t have a utility for them.
… except sex work. Live, paid access cam shows immediately caught on. And people would see those in ads (ads tended to be trashy with zero quality control back then, even automated. Worse than now, I swear), and associate “webcam” with “webcam show”.
There was no reason to otherwise hook up a camera to a computer if not to stream its contents to the web, anyway. The first webcam, that famous coffee pot, was just that: a web-connected camera. Web cam. Wikipedia talks about “Jenni cam” — I wasn’t on the anglosphere’s internet at the time so this escaped me, but it does seem to agree that the concept entered the mainstream not via videoconferencing, but via cam girls.
5 votes -
King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
15 votes -
Supreme Court of the United States Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers
21 votes -
Big Tech critic Tim Wu joins Joe Biden administration to work on US competition policy
9 votes -
Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield
4 votes -
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
Smartwatches monitor your health: An overview of what you get for the money
5 votes -
Trump promises to veto crucial defense-spending bill unless it includes a full repeal of CDA 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability
27 votes -
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
6 votes -
EARN IT Act introduced in House of Representatives
37 votes -
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
8 votes -
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
5 votes -
The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
8 votes -
Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
7 votes -
US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers
16 votes -
United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
6 votes -
Got any new electronics? Tell me about them!
Time for a casual show and tell! What new toys didya get? :) Last year's thread.
27 votes -
Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online
27 votes