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Update: @Sarahp@mastodon.social of @Techcrunch@flipboard.com reports that Meta is being sued over violations of privacy laws after @svd@newspapers.se's investigation into its smart glasses.
Canadian tech journalist @parismarx@mastodon.online is trying to get off U.S. tech — and help you to do the same. Here's his comprehensive guide.
Europe is building a federated cloud and AI infrastructure to end its dependence on the U.S. and China. Here's more from @euronews@flipboard.com.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has rejected the Pentagon's "final offer" in negotiations over allowing the Department of War to use the Claude model as it sees fit. "The contract language we received overnight from the Department of War made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons," Anthropic said in a statement. Here's more from @AxiosNews@flipboard.com.
Arizona Attorney General Kristin Mayes has filed criminal charges against the prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of operating an illegal betting and wagering operation, and taking bets on Arizona elections. Here's more from NBC,
Polymarket has pulled its nuclear detonation market. The "Nuclear weapon detonation by..." event attracted major trading activity on the platform, but widespread backlash across social media. Here's more from Decrypt.
Iranian authorities have once again shut off internet access. People within the country are struggling to find information; Iranians abroad are cut off from their loved ones back home. DW explains what's going on, and the attempts to bypass the digital blackout.
Google has launched the latest version of Nano Banana 2, the image generation model that promises to more quickly create more realistic images than its predecessors. Read more from @Techcrunch@flipboard.com:
The weeklong Game Developers Conference is underway in San Francisco, but many international devs are skipping it because they no longer feel comfortable traveling to the U.S. Here's @arstechnica@mastodon.social's story. We want to know: If you live outside the United States, are you avoiding it?





































