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  Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle

  The Verge - Emma Roth

  After spending millions on a yearslong campaign against classifying gig workers as employees, the ridehailing services got their way. Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash workers in California will remain independent contractors after the state’s Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, as reported by CalMatters. …

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  Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos

  The Verge - Emma Roth

  A spreadsheet obtained by 404 Media shows a massive training dataset that includes videos from Netflix, Nintendo, Linus Tech Tips, and even The Verge. Runway trained its AI text-to-video generator on thousands of YouTube videos and pirated films, according to a report from 404 Media. A spreadsheet of …

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  Congress moves forward on the Kids Online Safety Act

  The Verge - Sarah Jeong

  The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) was first introduced in 2023; over a year later, with the August recess looming, the Senate is poised to vote on the bill. With 70 cosponsors, the bill appears likely to pass. Proponents of the bill believe that the law is necessary to safeguard children from harm …

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  The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch

  The Verge - Mia Sato

  ‘We are looking into how that happened,’ an AP spokesperson told The Verge. The Associated Press has apparently retracted a fact-check published yesterday with the headline, “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch.” As of Thursday morning, the article page displayed a “page unavailable” error …

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  The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net neutrality

  The Verge - Nilay Patel

  The court struck down Chevron deference last month. That’s a big deal for the future of net neutrality. On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re talking about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron deference and what it means for the future of the internet. I’ve been covering the fight over net …

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  Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to ‘heroin’

  The Verge - Nilay Patel

  General counsel Dana Rao says a newly unredacted copy of the FTC’s complaint against Adobe for hidden fees and complicated cancellation flows isn’t all that it’s made out to be. Early termination fees are “a bit like heroin for Adobe,” according to an Adobe executive quoted in the FTC’s newly …