TikTok divest-or-ban law upheld by federal court

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company divests it is constitutional, a panel of judges for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled. The decision comes soon before ByteDance’s January 19th deadline to sell the popular video…

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AGI is coming and nobody cares

Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been saying for years — years! — that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would be something like a singularity. When we achieve AGI, Altman and others have said, it will fundamentally reshape society. At the New York Times DealBook Summit…

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Google Photos now has its own version of Spotify Wrapped

Every company is trying to copy Spotify these days. | Image: Google The Google Photos app is rolling out a throwback experience that highlights some of your most memorable moments from this year. The “2024 Recap” presentation feature announced today combines a collection of photos and insights with graphics and cinematic effects that summarize what…

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LA Times columnist resigns, accuses newspaper owner of ‘shameful capitulation’ to Trump

Ex-Los Angeles Times senior legal columnist Harry Litman announced he had resigned from the liberal outlet this week, accusing the paper’s owner of “appeasing” President-elect Donald Trump. Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday, Litman told network anchor Nicolle Wallace that the Los Angeles Times has abandoned its responsibility to confront Trump’s threat to democracy by taking…

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Feds using banks to surveil Americans’ financial data without warrants, House Judiciary says

FIRST ON FOX: Federal law enforcement has been manipulating the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) system to gain access to Americans’ financial information without warrants or probable cause, the House Judiciary Committee said Friday.  The panel and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its interim report, first obtained by Fox News Digital, which…

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