The US state of Utah has passed a law that will "prohibit kids under 18 from using social media between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., require age verification for anyone who wants to use social media in the state and open the door to lawsuits on behalf of children claiming social media harmed them". It's supposed to take effect March 2024, but the tech companies are obviously suing the state to get them repealed, so it might not actually begin by then. Other states like Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana and even New Jersey are scoping out similar regulations. It was good while it lasted folks, the internet as we loved it is dead, the normies have taken over.
A New York federal judge has found against the Internet Archive in the lawsuit brought upon it by Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House. The publishers reckon the Internet Archive's "open library" is mass copyright infringement despite "controlled digital lending" (i.e: 1 copy loaned for each physical copy the Internet Archive owns) put in place and the judge agreed, saying that "IA's wholesale copying and unauthorized lending of digital copies of the Publishers' print books does not transform the use of the books, and IA profits from exploiting the copyrighted material without paying the customary price". The AI will appeal the decision, but it doesn't look good for them unfortunately.
So, uh, that Latitude hack/data breach? It's way worse than Latitude first said it is. They confirmed today that "details of 14 million consumers were stolen", "including the driver licence numbers of 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand customers". The breadth of drivers licence data goes back all the way to 2005! The full statement Latitude gave to the ASX doesn't outline how this happened, just that the AFP and ACSC are helping to investigate. An article in the AFR last week reckons IT outsourcing company DXC is to blame, with someone grabbing DXC's admin details and using them to probe around Latitude's network. There's no proof or evidence of this, "just AFR weekend understands", so could be bullshit.
A framed photo located near Gordon Moore's desk at Intel, showing Moore holding up a life size representation of a die layout. (Anandtech)
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