Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO and co-founder of Web Summit, one of the world’s biggest tech conference companies, resigned on Saturday, following blowback to comments he made last week about the Hamas-Israel war.
Why it matters: The remarks led a slew of major companies, speakers and sponsors to withdraw from the event, including Amazon, Meta, Google and Intel.
The Supreme Court lifted a restriction on Friday that prevented the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about the moderation of online misinformation.
Why it matters: The high court has agreed to take up the administration's appeal in what will become a high-stakes case on the future of free speech online and the government's role in it.
The New York Times' Crossword/Wordle/Spelling Bee gaming juggernaut is getting some competition from newspaper rival Hearst through a new puzzle project called Puzzmo.
Driving the news: The collection of daily puzzles, presented in a format that resembles a printed newspapers's puzzle page, launched yesterday in "private preview" with a handful of online puzzles and some notable twists.
International law enforcement authorities said Friday they've taken down key infrastructure and arrested a hacker believed to be tied to a ransomware gang that's been targeting critical infrastructure.
Driving the news: The dark-web site for RagnarLocker was replaced Thursday with a notice saying it had been "seized as part of a coordinated international law enforcement action."
Artificial intelligence developers are flocking to identity management tool Okta as they nail down plans to keep malicious hackers out of their systems, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon told Axios.
Why it matters: AI companies are ripe targets not only for cybercriminals, but also for nation-state hacking groups looking to snatch their intellectual property and other valuable company information.
This week's music industry lawsuit against Anthropic adds yet another challenge to how AI firms train their large language models and offers a fresh reminder that generative AI remains a legal minefield.
Why it matters: The decisions courts reach in cases like this will lay the groundwork for decades of law governing AI.
Gleaming new Delta Air Lines terminals at airports in New York and Los Angeles could soon add another feature: convenient "vertiports" for passengers commuting by electric air taxi.
Why it matters: Multibillion-dollar makeovers in some of America's biggest airports have made flying more pleasurable, to be sure. But for many people, the worst part of air travel is just getting to the airport.
