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Tim Wu has been a leading proponent of a more aggressive approach to reining in the power of big business.

People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.

The tech giant has so far taken steps to streamline without mass layoffs, but employees are girding for deeper cuts.

Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.

German security researchers studying biometric capture devices popular with the U.S. military got more than they expected for $68 on eBay.

The moves come as Congress passed a measure last week to try to rein in the proliferation of the hacking tools.

The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company’s major data centers.

Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) More than once this year, AI experts have repeated a familiar refrain: “Please slow down.” AI news...

Enlarge (credit: Daniel Leal / Getty Images) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy tied to former President...