04-15 ‘Addicted to Hacking’: Young Hacker Behind Historic Breach Speaks Out for 1st Time, before Reporting to Prison
On a recent Tuesday morning, as his parents were driving him to the federal prison in Connecticut where he’ll be locked up for the foreseeable future, 20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News. “It’s extremely sad, and I’m just scared,” he wrote. Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped […]
04-14 What Are You Waiting For? Have You Participated in the Dirty Dozen List? Take Action.
The Dirty Dozen List is an annual campaign that calls out twelve mainstream entities for facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation. Since its inception in 2013, the Dirty Dozen List has galvanized thousands of individuals like YOU to call on corporations, government agencies, and organizations to change problematic policies and practices. […]
04-13 Big Tech Promised Screens Would Boost Academic Excellence. $30B Later,Kids are Falling Behind.
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04-12 Who Owns Ideas in the AI Age?
Who owns ideas in the AI age is one of the most unsettled questions in modern law, sitting at the intersection of creativity, technology and intellectual property. Traditionally, under principles of Intellectual Property Law, ideas themselves are not owned. What can be protected is the expression of an idea, such as a book, song, invention […]
04-11 Survivor Parents Speak Out: We Did Not Know About the Choking Challenge But Want You to Hear What Happened to Matthew
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04-10 Protecting Kids Online Doesn’t Threaten Speech or Parental Rights
By Clare Morell Two misconceptions have been circulating since last week’s landmark ruling in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., which found Meta and YouTube liable for harms to an individual plaintiff: First, that this verdict threatens free speech; and second, that it undermines parental rights and responsibility. Similar concerns have been raised against the nearly […]
04-09 NY Judges Doubt ‘Faceless’ TikTok Algorithm Is Protected Speech
New York appellate judges on Wednesday seemed unmoved by TikTok’s argument that it’s immune under the First Amendment and federal law from the state’s lawsuit claiming the social media platform addicts children. TikTok argues the third-party content it publishes and shows to users is a speech compilation that the state is attempting to regulate in […]
04-08 “The Problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders Don’t Trust CEO
On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI’s biggest promises. Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting. On the one […]
04-07 $230 Notebooks, Digital Cameras and Tiny Dollhouse Furniture: How Gen Z’s Desire to Get Offline is a Boon for Businesses
Leslie Edelman has run Tiny Doll House, a miniature figurine shop in New York’s Upper East Side neighborhood, for 35 years. Eighteen months ago, new clientele started routinely coming to the store, he says. In addition to Edelman’s regulars — parents, grandparents and collectors — groups of 20-somethings now flock to the store on Saturday […]
04-06 The U.S. Spent $30 Billion to Ditch Textbooks for Laptops and Tablets: The Result is the First Generation Less Cognitively Capable than Their Parents
In 2002, Maine became the first state to implement a statewide laptop program to some grade levels. Then-governor Angus King saw the program as a way to put the internet at the fingertips of more children, who would be able to immerse themselves in information. Fast forward. Look what happened to our kids. Over the […]