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Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids

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Rumor mill: According to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters, Meta has lobbied Congress to include a provision in the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that would limit companies' exposure to child safety and privacy lawsuits. The proposal would grant platforms immunity from state-level child-harm claims involving users under 18, a change that could undercut thousands of lawsuits already filed.

The proposal comes as lawmakers and courts increasingly scrutinize how social media platforms are designed and used by minors. Features such as infinite scrolling, activity notifications, and appearance-altering photo filters – key tools for driving user engagement – have become central to legal and regulatory battles over youth safety. Critics argue these features can encourage compulsive use, particularly among younger users.

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John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic

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Meteor 3.0 Migration Helped Rocket.Chat Move Off End-of-Life Node.js Runtime

Node.js 14 went end-of-life on April 30, 2023, leaving some framework-dependent applications on an unsupported runtime while upstream projects completed major migration work. One of the most visible downstream cases was Rocket.Chat, a communications platform whose federal government page states that it is “trusted across the federal stack

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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 director says the team 'worked very close' with 20th Century Studios 'to make sure that we were hitting the lore correctly'

* Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 director Chris Cross confirms that the sequel won't be a continuation of the first game * He says the sequel is a "self-contained" story * Cross reveals that Cold Iron worked closely with 20th Century Studios to ensure it matched the Alien lore Aliens:

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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the

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John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic

Meteor 3.0 Migration Helped Rocket.Chat Move Off End-of-Life Node.js Runtime

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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M