Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit (arstechnica.com)
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007 (arstechnica.com)
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
After porn-y protest, Reddit ousted mods; replacing them isn’t simple (arstechnica.com)
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (arstechnica.com)
Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.
Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it (arstechnica.com)
Twitter gets buggier: Followers don’t display, users restricted in error (arstechnica.com)
Twitter looking into a bug restricting some users from liking and retweeting.
RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days (arstechnica.com)
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.
YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says (arstechnica.com)
YouTube had the discretion to take down content that harmed users, judge said.
Federal health dept. says marijuana should be downgraded to Schedule 3 drug (arstechnica.com)
If DEA accepts HHS's rescheduling recommendation, it could ease marijuana access.
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding with Missouri and Louisiana in a lawsuit that alleges Biden and his administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social networks "to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and...
Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out (arstechnica.com)
Things to think about and lessons to learn.
Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout (arstechnica.com)
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors (arstechnica.com)
Brave will allow users to choose which sites can access local network resources.
Apple says UK Online Safety Bill is “serious threat” to end-to-end encryption (arstechnica.com)
Apple has joined the growing number of organizations opposed to the UK's pending Online Safety Bill, saying the proposed law threatens the end-to-end encryption that protects private messages....
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
FCC slaps $300M fine on “largest illegal robocall operation” it’s ever seen (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission today issued a record fine of $299,997,000 against a robocall operation that specialized in auto warranty scam calls, the FCC announced, calling it "the largest illegal robocall operation the agency has ever investigated."
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
Meta won’t say what happened to taxpayer data it may have illegally collected (arstechnica.com)
One tax preparer said the scandal likely impacts every user of its services.
Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google (arstechnica.com)
The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.
