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So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news eco...

In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other...

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual sus...

The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disa...

This week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms.

Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior.

Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content mo...

Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implicat...

Meta announced on Tuesday that it will no longer employ fact checkers to moderate content, and instead rely on an army of volunteer users.

The lack of cheap EVs and the reliance on combustion engines is putting Europe’s plan to ban new petrol cars by 2035 at risk.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking; hands moving, mani...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced new AI models for robots, self-driving cars, and autonomous agents during a keynote address at CES.

The market for absurdist cryptocurrencies mutated into a hundred-billion-dollar phenomenon in 2024. Yes, things can get even more deranged.

In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.

By grappling with the messy and unpredictable side of existence, machine learning can have impact beyond the digital.

One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books the read, told the user “Don’t forget to surface for the occasio...

A network of Facebook pages has been advertising “fuel filters” that are actually meant to be used as silencers, which are heavily regulated...

Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and...

Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To...

Anti-algorithm tactics and human moderators need to keep the web honest.

Despite the arrival of new competitors and growing political tensions between the US and China, the ecommerce juggernaut Temu proved in 2024...

One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.”