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Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say it impacts a few hundred people across Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting, and some sales roles (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-platforms-lay-hundreds

Meta Platforms to Lay Off Hundreds
Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to overhaul the company for work in the AI age. The cuts will affect staffers in Reality Labs — the division behind its hardware platforms ...

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/new-

New York State will require warning labels on social media platforms
New York will require warning labels on social media.

The Islamic State Is Using AI to Resurrect Dead Leaders and Platforms Are Failing to Moderate It https://www.404media.co/the-islamic-state-is-using-ai-to-resurrect-dead-leaders-and-platforms-are-failing-to-moderate-it/

“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.
It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether…

What next for big tech after landmark social media addiction verdict?
The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

WBD says it plans to expand its crackdown on HBO Max password-sharing around the world, after starting enforcement in August 2025 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/hbo-max-password-sharing-cracking-when-2026…

HBO Max's Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Expand Globally in 2026
The company announced the plan during its fourth quarter earnings call

Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-faceboo…

Young woman testifies against social media giants over technology addiction
A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. She began using the platforms as a young child and claims her early use of social media addicted her to the technology and exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts. Meta and YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap settled. The woman, who has been identified by her first name, Kaley, and initials, KGM, has testified before a jury in the …

Anyone have suggestions on CI platforms/dashboards besides github actions?
I'm looking at using CDash potentially for ngscopeclient moving forward but need to work out specifics of how the jobs will actually be launched etc.
(I liked CDash years ago when I used it for my thesis but havent touched it in forever)

At trial, Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified that “harms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, were inevitable on the company’s platforms due to their vast user bases,
If you earn a living by selling a product that inevitably cause child exploitation, maybe it's time to have a deep reflection on your life choices...

Vietnam cracks down on unskippable YouTube ads
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us-streamers/vietnam-to-force-youtube-and-other-platforms-to-allow-…

Bill Gates’ Terrapower liefert Meta Platforms Atomreaktoren
Meta Platforms hat einen AKW-Lieferanten gefunden: Die von Bill Gates gegründete Firma Terrapower. Sie will 2 bis 8 Reaktoren liefern.
https://www.

Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
— by @…<…

Hoe BigTech buigt als Trump cs ze onder enige druk zet, laten we geen illusies hebben over de bescherming van onze gegevens bij betreffende bedrijven.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/platforms-bend-over-backwar…

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.

Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)
https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/02/21/turkey…

Turkey reviews major social media platforms' handling of children’s data - Turkish Minute
Turkey’s data protection watchdog has opened a review of how six major social media platforms process children’s personal data, as Ankara prepares separate legislation that would tighten state control over online accounts and content.

A US judge dismisses an antitrust case brought by Helena World Chronicle and Emmerich Newspapers alleging Google has monopolized the news market via Search (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-antitrust-…

US judge dismisses Google monopoly claim brought by local publishers
Google has successfully dismissed a case brought by two news publishers alleging it has a monopoly in the online news market.

Mark Zuckerberg said META Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO
Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
https://www.wsj.com/…

Progressive organizations and media networks, including MeidasTouch and Courier, plan two streaming events to counter Trump's State of the Union speech (Michael Calderone/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/trump-stat…

Trump’s State of the Union Resistance Will Be Streamed | Analysis
Dozens of Congressional Democrats are ditching Trump’s address to counterprogram the pomp and circumstance, testing whether a digital show of force can rival a president in prime time

Yoshi's Island DS: baby Bowser
Baby Wario's gimmick of having a magnet was bad, especially since it often didn't actually work. Baby Bowser's gimmick of being able to fire fireballs is pretty good, apart from the fact that I keep on melting the platforms I want to stand on. And the fact that he's used in an ice world, which involves slippy platforms and lots of deaths. I lost 25 lives on one level section alone. Not fun in the slightest. I'm on to world five now…

Ruling in the LA bellwether case could impact Meta and other platforms, opening up a flood of litigation challenging product design and bypassing Section 230 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/do-back-to-back-courtroom-losses-her…

Ob und wie Social Media für Minderjährige schädlich sind, ist nicht geklärt, auch wenn viele das Gefühl haben, dass das doch völlig klar sei.
Es wird geforscht, aber viele relevante Fragen sind noch offen. Deswegen ist ein pauschales Verbot (Wie? Von was?) keine sinnvolle Lösung.
Researchers Embrace Complexity in Social Media and Teen Mental Health | TechPolicy.Press

Ukraine hits Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-hits-russian-drilling-platforms.html

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 1371 nodes and 41123 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

The Age-Verification Trap — Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful content, and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health. So, many propose to set a minimum age, usually 13 or 16.
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Is Age Verification a Trap?
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?

The Minocqua Brewing Company is famously anti-Trump, and very progressive, but when I told them to dump Substack because they platform and support Nazis they told me to "get over it" because all other platforms have "bent the knee".
Sigh...
I did reply telling them about Ghost and about self-hosting as an option.
#wisconsin

Beehiiv now lets creators manage their accounts through AI platforms; the first iteration of Beehiiv MCP supports subscriber analysis and SEO optimization (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/beehiiv-creator-ai-chatbot-mcp

Beehiiv to allow creators to manage accounts through AI platforms
The update will help creators offload a lot of tedious tasks, like analyzing email lists and managing marketing outreach.

Überraschung am Morgen. Das Letsencrypt Zertifikat für meine Website https://pixelgalaxy.net war abgelaufen und wurde nicht automatisch erneuert. Die Pixelfed Instanz läuft auf einem Server mit Yunohost. Da hat Yunohost wieder Eigenheiten entwickelt, die einem nicht gefallen können. Das Verzeichnis für die Zertifikate…

PixelGalaxy.NET
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116115620863300348
Waarom die commerciële platforms al lange tijd bullshit waren om op te zitten en in combinatie met AI iets om ver vandaan te blijven....
Vergeet niet dat het grote geld een 'samenwerking' is tussen het platform, marketeers en content providers.
De gebruiker is slechts de target om geplukt te worden.

Warum Meta Platforms Datensammlung illegal ist
Erstmals steht rechtskräftig fest, dass Meta Platforms nach deutschem Recht illegal Daten auf fremden Webseiten erntet. Ein Blick auf juristische Eckpunkte.
https://www.

What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work…

Ask your MP to support a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain’s-digital-backbone-—-ask-your-mp-act
My MP won't sign EDMs (waste of public money he claims!) but …

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act
Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies. Much of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir, whose services are embedded across government and the public sector. Other key providers are based in Israel and China. Toget…

Honestly obviously the Goldblum one above is a joke edit, but the Apple commercials from that time are so nice. Especially compared to the garbage shown on streaming platforms today.
https://youtu.be/83nS4EGKU04

Revolut says 58% of reported job scams globally came from Telegram in 2025, dwarfing other platforms for these cases, based on an analysis of 10B transactions (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

European Audiovisual Observatory: global streaming platforms increased their share of spending on original European programming from 8% in 2020 to 24% in 2024 (Ed Meza/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/streaming-pay-tv-european-audio…

Consumer Spending Drives European FIlm and TV Revenue to $165 Billion
The latest industry data shows film production at record high in Europe as Netflix and YouTube become leading players across the region.

Spannend: 60 Seiten Whitepaper zum Thema Chancen des Fediverse für #Journalismus https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html

Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
Kann das Fediverse eine Alternative zu den Social-Media-Monopolisten sein? Zusammen mit dem Media Lab Bayern und sechs fantastischen Fellows sind wir, das SWR X Lab, bei "Reinvent Social Platforms" dieser Frage nachgegangen. Die Ergebnisse mit vielen Chancen, Herausforderungen und konkreten Lösungsansätzen gibt es jetzt als Report zum Download. Journalismus into the Fediverse!

Schau mal, was ich auf SWR.de gefunden habe: https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info@swr.de&at_source=mastodon
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Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
Kann das Fediverse eine Alternative zu den Social-Media-Monopolisten sein? Zusammen mit dem Media Lab Bayern und sechs fantastischen Fellows sind wir, das SWR X Lab, bei "Reinvent Social Platforms" dieser Frage nachgegangen. Die Ergebnisse mit vielen Chancen, Herausforderungen und konkreten Lösungsansätzen gibt es jetzt als Report zum Download. Journalismus into the Fediverse!

The fact that communities are bound to private platforms is a really fucked up human reality.
How true was this if we go 100 years back? Was the community defined by the pub and the church?

Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
SWR https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info@swr.de&at_source=webshare

Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
Kann das Fediverse eine Alternative zu den Social-Media-Monopolisten sein? Zusammen mit dem Media Lab Bayern und sechs fantastischen Fellows sind wir, das SWR X Lab, bei "Reinvent Social Platforms" dieser Frage nachgegangen. Die Ergebnisse mit vielen Chancen, Herausforderungen und konkreten Lösungsansätzen gibt es jetzt als Report zum Download. Journalismus into the Fediverse!

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netfl…

Streamers in U.K. Set to Come Under ‘Enhanced Regulation’ from Ofcom
U.K. media regulator Ofcom is set to oversee streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ following new legislation.

Ruling in the LA bellwether case could impact Meta and other platforms, opening up a flood of litigation challenging product design and bypassing Section 230 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/do-back-to-back-courtroom-losses-her…

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-cybercrime-crackdown-over-373-000-dark-web-sites-shut-down

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down – Authorities from 23 countries participate in the operation | Europol
On 9 March 2026, a global operation led by German authorities and supported by Europol was launched against one of the largest networks of fraudulent platforms in the dark web. The investigation began in mid-2021 against the dark web platform “Alice with Violence CP”. During the investigation, authorities discovered that the platform’s operator was running more than 373 000 fraudulent websites advertising child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings.

It’s kinda funny that it’s right now, when the questionable practices of US platforms have become really evident to the wider public, that publicly funded European institutions decide to leave the Fediverse and to advertise precisely these platforms.

It’s kinda funny that it’s right now, when the questionable practices of US platforms have become really evident to the wider public, that publicly funded European institutions decide to leave the Fediverse and to advertise precisely these platforms.

It’s kinda funny that it’s right now, when the questionable practices of US platforms have become really evident to the wider public, that publicly funded European institutions decide to leave the Fediverse and to advertise precisely these platforms.

Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info@swr.de&at_source=webshare
…

Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
Kann das Fediverse eine Alternative zu den Social-Media-Monopolisten sein? Zusammen mit dem Media Lab Bayern und sechs fantastischen Fellows sind wir, das SWR X Lab, bei "Reinvent Social Platforms" dieser Frage nachgegangen. Die Ergebnisse mit vielen Chancen, Herausforderungen und konkreten Lösungsansätzen gibt es jetzt als Report zum Download. Journalismus into the Fediverse!

I have Unix “muscle memory” that is older than the millennium and remains valid on most of the machines I administer.
E.g. the old “net-tools” utilities (ifconfig, netstat, etc.)were supposedly replaced a couple of decades ago but they remain functional on most Unix-like platforms. Almost no one ever uses the iproute2 (i.e. ip, ss, etc.) tools. @…

Sources: Meta last week scrapped the most advanced AI chip it was developing, after struggling with the design, and shifted its focus to a less complicated chip (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-internal-chip-design-effo…

Meta’s Internal Chip Design Efforts Hit Roadblocks
As Meta Platforms strikes new chip supply deals with AMD and Nvidia, it has been running into problems with AI chips it is designing internally, according to six people with direct knowledge of the matter. Meta last week scrapped the most advanced chip it was developing for training AI models, ...

Are you keeping up with the shift in how research data is managed and shared?
Next week, Microsoft and LLPA are hosting two free webinars showing how cloud platforms can make good research data practices easier to implement and sustain.
🔗 Save a seat for the 24 March webinar: https://events.geant.org/event/2119/

Ukraine strikes Lukoil drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea and Russian military sites: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-strikes-lukoil-drilling-platforms.html

Beehiiv now lets creators manage their accounts through AI platforms; the first iteration of Beehiiv MCP supports subscriber analysis and SEO optimization (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/beehiiv-creator-ai-chatbot-mcp

Beehiiv to allow creators to manage accounts through AI platforms
The new update will help creators offload a lot of tedious tasks, like analyzing email lists and managing marketing outreach.

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/meta-youtube-los-angeles-california-verdict.html

Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.

The FCC seeks comments on how sports rights changes are affecting consumers as more events move to streaming platforms; initial comment deadline is March 27 (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-legal/fcc-launches-inq…

FCC Launches Inquiry Into Broadcast Sports Rights
The Media Bureau is seeking comments on such issues as the shift of rights away from free-to-air broadcasts

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Strikes Multibillion-Dollar AI Chip Deal With Meta, Sharpening Nvidia Rivalry
Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rentGoogle’s AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks. The multi-year deal is worth billions of dollars, said a person who was briefed about it.Meta has also been talking to Google about ...

OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M over several years (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-hires-meta…

OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed. Ruoming Pang, who led AI infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is developing new AI models, left the company last week and has joined OpenAI. Pang, who was aggressively recruited by OpenAI over several months, told

Ukraine pushes tighter Telegram regulation, citing Russian recruitment of locals https://therecord.media/ukraine-telegram-regulation-russia-sabotage-recruitment

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netfl…

Streamers in U.K. Set to Come Under ‘Enhanced Regulation’ from Ofcom
U.K. media regulator Ofcom is set to oversee streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ following new legislation.

How long have Macintosh platforms lasted?
68k: 1984–1996 (~13 years)
PowerPC: 1994–2006 (~13 years)
Intel: 2006–2023 (~18 years)
Apple Silicon: 2020– (~7 years so far)
Wonder if I'll be around when they change platforms again, assuming they're still making computers then.

The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into Snapchat for failing to protect children, including assessing its age verification measures (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-probes-snapchat-for-fa…

EU probes Snapchat for failing to protect kids from grooming and illegal goods
Investigation comes amid growing scrutiny of the impact and liability of technology platforms towards kids.

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/meta-youtube-los-angeles-california-verdict.html

The New York Times and Pentagon Press Association say the DOD's new press policy violates a judge's ruling last week; NYT says it "will be going back to court" (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/pentagon-press-li…

Pete Hegseth Sets New Pentagon Press Restrictions After Losing to New York Times in Court
The media workspace used for years by credentialed journalists is shutting down. “We will be going back to court," says the Times

NBCU says the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5M viewers on its platforms for US afternoon and primetime periods, up 96% from the 2022 Beijing Olympics (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/milan-cortina-2026-olympics…

Milan Cortina Olympics Deliver Most-Watched Winter Games Since 2014 Across NBCUniversal Platforms
The Milan Cortina Olympics struck gold for NBC, Peacock and the company's other platforms with the best audience for a Winter Games since 2014

Online liability shield still a lightning rod after 30 years
https://rollcall.com/2026/03/18/online-liability-shield-still-a-lightning-rod-after-30-years/

Online liability shield still a lightning rod after 30 years
Senators on both sides of the aisle criticized liability protections for social media platforms at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, but largely stopped short of supporting a full repeal as sought by some lawmakers. The hearing, billed as a review of Section 230 of a 1996 communications law 30 years after enactment, saw […]

Memo: WaPo won't send sports staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in Italy, as it assesses financial priorities for 2026, following reports of expected layoffs (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo<…

Washington Post Cancels On-Site Winter Olympics Coverage Ahead of Expected Layoffs
Managing Editor Kimi Yoshino says the decision to not send reporters to the Games comes after assessing financial priorities.

Phishing operation with links to Russia, Armenia compromised Western cargo companies, researchers find https://therecord.media/phishing-operation-russia-armenia-targeting-us-european-cargo

Israel bans five Palestinian media outlets, alleging they operate as propaganda or media arms for Hamas without releasing evidence for the claim (Nagham Zbeedat/Haaretz)
https://www.haaretz.com/isra…

Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta over children's safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-trial-child-sexual-exploitation-5ad9…

New Mexico trial nears end over children's safety risks on Meta
Closing arguments are underway in a landmark trial where New Mexico prosecutors are accusing social media conglomerate Meta of misleading people about the safety of its platforms for children. Meta denies violating state consumer protection laws. Nationwide, social media companies are contending with lawsuits that allege the platforms harm children. Closing arguments in the New Mexico case were being delivered Monday after six weeks of testimony from scores of witnesses that included teachers, …

You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.

«Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like @… are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.»
The AI will still create security issues in general. Open-source software suffers from t…

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.

Metas Datensammlung: Auch Sachsen-Anhalt wechselt die Seite
Meta Platforms' Datensammlung auf fremden Webseiten und Apps ist unzulässig. Auch das Oberlandesgericht Naumburg entscheidet auf vierstelligen Schadenersatz.

Analysis: among the top 50 news websites in the US and the UK, 34% blocked all major AI training bots; 14%, including Fox and Substack, allowed access to all (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ei…

Eight in ten of world's biggest news websites now block AI training bots
Almost eight in ten of the biggest news website publishers in the UK and US are blocking AI training bots.

A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/jury-reaches-verdict-in-meta-child-…

Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, jury rules
Jury reaches a verdict in New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.

Law&Crime launches streaming service Law&Crime , which includes crime scene footage and court documents, for $3.99/month or $40.99/year on Roku and platforms (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Law&Crime Is Launching Subscription Service Offering Access to “Uncensored” Evidence (Exclusive)
Law&Crime+ will share crime scene photos for $3.99 a month.

Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers (Blake Stimac/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/claude-control-your-comput…

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer
The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.

UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bari-weiss-ucla-lecture-canc…

Bari Weiss' UCLA Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Has Been Rescheduled
The CBS News editor-in-chief was set to appear at the university for a discussion centered on the "future of journalism."

Internal memo: Axios lays off 11 newsroom staffers but says it is "continuing to hire and grow" as it focuses on "subject matter experts and local expansion" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/axios-l…

Axios Lays Off 11 Newsroom Staffers
Axios laid off 11 newsroom staffers on Tuesday, the latest cuts at the news outlet as it pivots to seeking “subject matter experts.”

Notus hires several Washington Post journalists, including columnist Dana Milbank and reporters Paul Kane and Jeff Stein, as well as Politico reporter Joe Gould (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/notus-washington…

Washington Post Columnist Dana Milbank, Several Reporters Join NOTUS as It Expands in DC
Robert Allbritton-founded NOTUS has hired multiple Washington Post journalists as it expands

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet

SiFive To Integrate Nvidia NVLink Fusion For Next-Gen AI Data Center Chips
SiFive has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its forthcoming silicon platforms.

Politico Global EIC John Harris tells staff he will move into a new role as chairman and begin a search for a new EIC, who will be named "at some point in 2026" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

Politico’s John Harris Moves Into Chairman Role, Search Begins for New Editor in Chief
The announcement comes days after the company laid off 3% of its staff

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave "insufficient forethought" about consequences (Bill Ready/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/03/19/pinterest-ce…

Pinterest CEO: Governments Should Ban Social Media for Kids Under 16
"The cost of inaction is a generation of young people overwhelmed by anxiety and depression," writes Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest.

In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta, state prosecutors argue Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, as Meta's attorney pushes back (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-new-mexi…

Meta accused in New Mexico trial of failing to protect children online
Meta is on trial in New Mexico to answer allegations that its social media platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation. The case is one of a series of lawsuits nationwide accusing social media companies of not doing enough to protect children online. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Meta in 2023 alleging its platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation. Meta denies the allegation and accuses prosecutors of taking a “sensationalis…

In UK parliamentary testimony, a Google executive says the company should not be required to license "freely available" open web content for AI training (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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Google IP boss: We shouldn't pay for AI training on 'freely available' content
Google's global IP boss has said the tech giant does not believe it should have to pay to use "freely available content" for AI training.

Nvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/01/ahead-mwc-barcelona…

Ahead of MWC Barcelona, Nvidia bets AI-native platforms will carry telecom into 6G - SiliconANGLE
Ahead of MWC Barcelona, Nvidia bets AI-native platforms will carry telecom into 6G - SiliconANGLE

An interview with Chloe Rushmere, head of content for magazine and newspaper subscription app Readly, on future plans as Readly integrates with France's Cafeyn (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
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How 'all you can read' app Readly is gearing up for growth after Cafeyn merger
Magazine and newspaper app Readly has said the platform is connecting publishers to an audience that would otherwise be unreachable.

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several social media addiction lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
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Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
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Disney+ Rolls Out Its Vertical Video Offering 'Verts' This Week in the US
Users will be able to swipe through a stream of scenes from movies and shows on Disney+

YouTube and the NFL's second annual Creator Flag Football game drew 14M live views around the world, up from 6M in 2025, as the NFL seeks to export the sport (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
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Super Bowl LX's Creator Flag Football Game Scores 14 Million Views on YouTube | Exclusive
YouTube and the NFL's second annual Super Bowl Creator Flag Football game delivered over 14 million live views

Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
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Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but the company hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations.

A CBS News producer quits, saying stories may now be evaluated "on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations", causing self-censorship (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
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CBS News Producer Quits in Fiery Note Lambasting Bari Weiss’ Break From ‘Journalistic Merit’
Alicia Hastey has departed CBS News as a producer after four years with the network, blasting Bari Weiss' break from "journalist merit" in a fiery note.

NYT editor Joe Kahn says the paper didn't withhold a story on the US plan to capture Nicolšs Maduro at Trump administration's request, citing unverified details (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
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NY Times Didn’t Hold Maduro Capture Story at Trump Admin’s Request, Editor Says
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn said the paper did not withhold a reported story on the U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Trump administration’s request.

The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement "highly effective age checks" to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites (Laura Cress/BBC)
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Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s
Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Roblox are among the platforms UK regulators say aren't putting children's safety at the heart of their products.

NYT defends a March 9 photo showing a massive crowd in Tehran celebrating Mojtaba Khamenei's appointment as Iran's leader, after allegations of AI manipulation (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
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New York Times Defends Tehran Square Image After Allegations of AI Manipulation
The New York Times on Wednesday defended an image it published of a massive crowd in Enghelab Square in Tehran, Iran, on Monday after conservative accounts accused the paper of using AI to manipulate it.

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New Zealand, and Canada, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword)
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Expanding Chrome’s AI experiences to India, New Zealand and Canada
We’re bringing Gemini in Chrome’s powerful AI features to more regions and languages, helping millions of people get the most out of their browser.

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Meta Revives Plan for Smart Watch, Targets 2026 Launch
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved ...

The Spectator has invested £1M in its subscription platform CoEditor, helping it reach an all-time high subscriber total and saving a projected ~£500K a year (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
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How The Spectator invested £1m in building own subs platform
The Spectator has invested £1m in CoEditor, a new subscription platform, which has reportedly saved the title around £500,000 a year.

China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures (Reuters)
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Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Inside Meta, a Rogue AI Agent Triggers Security Alert
A rogue AI agent recently triggered a major security alert at Meta Platforms, by taking action without approval that led to the exposure of sensitive company and user data to Meta employees who didn’t have authorization to access the data. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the incident, while adding ...

Sources: Javier Guzman, a CBS Evening News senior broadcast producer, was dismissed on Jan. 7 from his position, just days into Tony Dokoupil's tenure as anchor (The Wrap)
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‘CBS Evening News’ No. 2 Producer Dismissed Amid Tony Dokoupil’s Rocky Rollout
Javier Guzman, a senior broadcast producer for "CBS Evening News," was dismissed from his position following Wednesday night's broadcast.

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technol

Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.