James Farrell, Author at SiliconANGLE

NEWS

Judge tells Biden administration to stop contacting social media companies

By James Farrell Jul 4, 2023

A federal judge in Louisiana today issued a preliminary injunction that will limit how agencies in the Biden administration can contact social media companies, a ruling that may well shape the future of free…

AI

All you need is AI: Artificial intelligence is about to help the Beatles release a new record

By James Farrell Jun 13, 2023

No modern journalist ever thought that he’d be writing a story about the new Beatles track, but according to former Beatle Paul McCartney today, that’s about to happen thanks to new developments in artificial…

NEWS

Reddit users come together in protest after highly unpopular API changes

By James Farrell Jun 12, 2023

Thousands of Reddit Inc. forums today switched into private mode in protest over the company’s controversial changes to its application programming interface, API. At least 7,000 pages engaged in voluntary blackouts, which restrict the…

NEWS

Meta to take action after investigation finds Instagram algorithm promoted child sex abuse material

By James Farrell Jun 7, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc.-owned Instagram today said it will take action after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed the company’s algorithm was…

AI

Actually, AI will save the world, not destroy it, says venture capitalist Marc Andreessen

By James Farrell Jun 6, 2023

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, published an almost 7,000-word blog post today that presents the rise of artificial intelligence in almost utopian terms and scathingly contradicts the grim outlook…

NEWS

New Twitter boss Linda Yaccarino starts her job today at a difficult time

By James Farrell Jun 5, 2023

Linda Yaccarino began her job as Twitter Inc. chief executive today, reportedly much earlier than expected. Prior to taking the post, Yaccarino had worked for four years as head of NBCUniversal Media LLC’s advertising…

NEWS

Airbnb sues New York City in effort to block short-term rental ordinance

By James Farrell Jun 1, 2023

Airbnb sued New York City today in an attempt to prevent the city’s officials from enforcing an ordinance that the app says will effectively end its business in the city. The ordinance, Local Law…

NEWS

Amazon will pay more than $30M for Alexa and Ring privacy violation allegations

By James Farrell May 31, 2023

Amazon.com Inc. will pay more than $30 million to settle two separate lawsuits brought by the Federal Trade Commission, it was reported today. One of the lawsuits, brought by both the FTC and Justice…

NEWS

Twitter to expand crowdsourced fact-checking tool after Pentagon explosion deepfake video

By James Farrell May 30, 2023

After a fake image of the Pentagon on fire went viral recently, Twitter Inc. has decided that the platform needs to arm itself better against such deepfake skullduggery. The artificial intelligence-generated image was seen…

Emerging Tech

Paralyzed man walks for first time in over a decade with electronic brain implants

By James Farrell May 24, 2023

A 40-year-old Dutch man who was paralyzed in a cycling accident in China in 2011 has walked again thanks to a brain-machine interface. Gert-Jan Oskam was told he’d never walk again after his accident,…

James Farrell

All you need is AI: Artificial intelligence is about to help the Beatles release a new record

Reddit users come together in protest after highly unpopular API changes

Meta to take action after investigation finds Instagram algorithm promoted child sex abuse material

Actually, AI will save the world, not destroy it, says venture capitalist Marc Andreessen

New Twitter boss Linda Yaccarino starts her job today at a difficult time

Airbnb sues New York City in effort to block short-term rental ordinance

Amazon will pay more than $30M for Alexa and Ring privacy violation allegations

Twitter to expand crowdsourced fact-checking tool after Pentagon explosion deepfake video

Paralyzed man walks for first time in over a decade with electronic brain implants

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