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Friday, January 17, 2025
January 2025
Apple halts AI feature that made iPhones hallucinate about news (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/17/2025 - 06:28‘I’m terrified’: TikTok’s looming ban sends creators scrambling (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/17/2025 - 06:27Editorial | To fix social media, go deeper: If platforms want to do good for society, they need to become transparent. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/17/2025 - 06:27Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China? (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/17/2025 - 06:26
Weekly Digest
Weekly Digest
Google won't add fact checks despite new EU law (Axios)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 01/16/2025 - 16:47
The BEAD program begins to bear fruit
On January 13, 2025, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its approval of Louisiana’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Final Proposal. Delaware’s approval followed the next day. With those two landmarks, coming as the fourth year since the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) begins to elapse, the BEAD program is at last beginning to bear fruit.