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• Alexa Will Be Powered by Claude / #

  Amazon is set to revolutionize its Alexa voice assistant by integrating Anthropic's Claude AI, promising enhanced capabilities and a new subscription-based model.

• Musk's X suspended in Brazil after disinformation row - BBC News / #

  Alexandre de Moraes ordered the "immediate and complete suspension" of the social media platform until it complies with all court orders and pays existing fines.

• X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust "hostage laws," but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) / #

  Mike Masnick / Techdirt:X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands  —  In the battle between Elon Musk and Brazil, there are no heroes — only two sides engaged in an epic display of hypocrisy and overreach.

• X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws / #

  Millions of users shut out and 500,000 switch to rival platform Bluesky as providers enact supreme court banCarole Cadwalladr: Don’t rejoice yet,Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truthOne of the world’s most popular social networks, X, has gone offline in Brazil – the country with the fifth largest digital population – after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws meant it was blocked by the supreme court.Millions of Brazilian X users found themselves unable to access the network on Saturday morning as internet providers and mobile phone companies began to enforce the ban.

• Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230 (Matt Stoller/BIG) / #

  Matt Stoller / BIG:Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230  —  “TikTok reads 230 of the Communications Decency Act to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl.”  - Judge Paul Matey

• Elon Musk's X is now banned in Brazil / #

  Brazil just gave Elon Musk's X the boot.On Friday, Brazil's top court ordered that Musk's social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, be banned in the country.

• Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky / #

  Image: BlueskyX is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves.

• Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is / #

  There’s no question Facebook is a platform.

• Inside Elon Musk’s Chaotic Revamp of Twitter Blue - The New York Times / #

  Twitter Blue, a revamped subscription service that let users buy verified badges, was the first big test for the platform’s new owner. It didn’t go well.

• Spain is luring digital nomads into the countryside with €15,000 grants / #

  In Barcelona, digital nomads risk being attacked by angry water pistol-wielding locals.

• Elon Musk: Streit um X in Brasilien eskaliert / #

  Elon Musk rechnet mit einer Schließung von X in Brasilien - Hintergrund ist ein Streit um Sperren bei X.

• Medienanstalten: Niedrige Werbe-Akzeptanz bei Social-Media-Videos. / #

  Schauen und shoppen?

• Causa Durow: Panik in Moskau und im Silicon Valley - Web - derStandard.at › Web / #

  Russland fürchtet Militärkommunikation könnte dem Westen in die Hände fallen. Konservative in den USA beschwören indessen den Kulturkampf

• EU investigating if Telegram played down user numbers to avoid regulation | Ars Technica / #

  The new probe is separate from the French investigation into the platform.

• Telegram: Festnahme von Pawel Durow bringt Russland in Bedrängnis - DER SPIEGEL / #

  ange war die Staatsmacht Russlands mit Pawel Durow verfeindet. Doch die Verhaftung des russischen Telegram-Gründers versetzt Moskau in Aufruhr. Denn der Messenger wurde in Kriegszeiten zu einem viel genutzten Werkzeug.

• Telegram CEO charged in French criminal investigation - The Verge / #

  Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is charged with enabling illegal transactions and complicity in the distribution of CSAM.

• Threads’ chaotic “For You” feed quantified - Sherwood News / #

  How old are the posts Threads are recommending to its users?

• Telegram-Chef Pawel Durow: Anwalt David-Olivier Kaminski nennt Vorwürfe »völlig absurd« - DER SPIEGEL / #

  Gegen den Gründer von Telegram, Pawel Durow, wird in Frankreich wegen Geldwäsche, Beihilfe zum Drogenhandel und zur Verbreitung von Missbrauchsmaterial ermittelt. Sein Anwalt weist die Vorwürfe zurück.

• Black Forest Labs: Sie sind ein Teil von jener Kraft | ZEIT ONLINE / #

  Eine KI-Firma aus dem Schwarzwald baut den besten Bildgenerator der Welt. Was für eine Erfolgsgeschichte! Doch dann geht sie einen Deal mit Elon Musk ein.

• Internet-ID in China: Fast wie Orwells "1984" | ZEIT ONLINE / #

  Die chinesische Regierung plant die Einführung einer neuen Internet-ID. Trotz allen Abwiegelns: Damit würde die perfekte Kontrolle aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger möglich.

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