Regulating

Beeper, a YCombinator-backed startup, initially came up with an expensive and inherently insecure method to make a beta version of its app work. This method sent every message through a relay server before arriving at the recipient’s…

by Katelynn Richardson    The Supreme Court stayed Tuesday a lower court decision to vacate a rule designed to crack down on “ghost guns” by regulating gun parts kits as traditional firearms. The Biden administration asked the Supreme…

For the first 20 minutes of our conversation, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, the sixth most-visited website in the US, does a good impression of a 2020s tech executive. “Our mission,” he says at one point, “is to bring community belonging…

Sen. Chuck Schumer is making plans to regulate artificial intelligence, but is this just another show of holding anti-free speech Big Tech companies accountable? Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is moving toward…

Two lawmakers apparently eager for congressional reform of Big Tech clearly have different goals, as Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) pushed to protect free speech from pro-censorship Big Tech, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MI) called…

An Ohio House committee passed legislation Tuesday that would block local governments from banning or directly regulating short-term rentals like Airbnb within their borders. The legislation blocks…

States are doing something that Congress has yet to accomplish — make it harder for criminals to sell stolen items online. On Wednesday, Ohio became the third state — after Arkansas and Colorado — to regulate sales on such sites such as…

It’s a term on the tip of everyone’s tongue and yet still a concept that lacks a clear definition. It’s an idea that is capturing the brightest minds at the biggest technology companies—Apple, Meta nee Facebook, Microsoft—and yet no one…