F.T.C. Bars Anonymous Messaging App From Serving Users Under Age 18
The move against the app NGL by the Federal Trade Commission was the first time the agency barred an online service from hosting minors.
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![Kristin Bride, the mother of a 16-year-old who killed himself in 2020 after he was cyberbullied on anonymous messaging apps, had filed a complaint against NGL to the Federal Trade Commission in October.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/09/multimedia/FTC-sub-tzlk/FTC-sub-tzlk-thumbLarge.jpg?auto=webp)
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The move against the app NGL by the Federal Trade Commission was the first time the agency barred an online service from hosting minors.
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The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.
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Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.
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Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking.
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How to Clean Up Your Phone’s Photo Library to Free Up Space
Deleting duplicates, bad shots and other unwanted files makes it easier to find the good pictures — and gives you room to take more.
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What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data
Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are powered by artificial intelligence. Should we trust them?
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Welcome to the Era of the A.I. Smartphone
Apple and Google are getting up close and personal with user data to craft memos, summarize documents and generate images.
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Finding Your Roots With Help From Your Phone
Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files.
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The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.
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Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says.
By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jin Yu Young
A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.
By Jack Ewing
As diagnoses of autism rise, Microsoft and other large companies are working to better support autistic workers so they can thrive without “masking.”
By Steven Kurutz
David Ellison is poised to soon run Paramount Pictures, among other entertainment assets. But what does that mean in a fractured cultural landscape?
By Brooks Barnes
The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.
By Edward Wong and Ana Swanson
Growth in electric vehicle sales has been slowing, but the Italian luxury carmaker is stepping up investment and setting ambitious targets.
By Bernhard Warner
In a sequel to his much-mocked hydrofoil video, the Meta founder celebrates the Fourth of July in his own particular way.
By Alex Vadukul
One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices.
By John Yoon, Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya
Ted Sarandos, a chief executive of Netflix, on the future of entertainment.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Wyatt Orme, Anabel Bacon, Allison Benedikt, Brad Fisher, Efim Shapiro, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Devin Yalkin
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton reflect on the success of their podcast and look toward what’s next.
By Josh Ocampo
A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems.
By Cade Metz
Granting an injunction to several plaintiffs, a judge said the Federal Trade Commission’s pending ban on noncompete agreements was unlikely to prevail.
By Danielle Kaye
Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.
By Erin Griffith
Biden administration officials hope the money will help propel technological innovation in areas that have historically received less government funding.
By Madeleine Ngo and Ana Swanson
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A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as gay and became an L.G.B.T.Q. activist.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.
By Jack Ewing
Driven by the war with Russia, many Ukrainian companies are working on a major leap forward in the weaponization of consumer technology.
By Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano
The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at “Silicon Valley censorship,” to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites’ First Amendment rights.
By Abbie VanSickle, David McCabe and Adam Liptak
Regulators said the subscription service introduced last year is a “pay or consent” method to collect personal data and bolster advertising.
By Adam Satariano
Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness.
By Emily Schmall
The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
By Kashmir Hill
A little something for everyone: lawsuits, fighter jets and Casey in a bucket hat.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Larissa Anderson, Corey Schreppel, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto
Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.
By Amanda Hess
The deal, which includes a $175 million settlement with the state, keeps the drivers classified as independent contractors, not employees.
By Eli Tan
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The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for 24 hours or more.
By Derek M. Norman
A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
By Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.
By John Koblin
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
By Adam Liptak
Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? Our reporter put three virtual assistants to the test.
By Ceylan Yeğinsu
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.
By Tripp Mickle
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