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Speakers at IGF Opening Ceremony Support "Multistakeholderism"

Tech Soup

This week, TechSoup Global/Guidestar International's Keisha Taylor has been participating in the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read all of Keisha's blog posts and follow other coverage on the IGF social reporting aggregator. read more.

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‘Deepfake’ that supposedly fooled European politicians was just a look-alike, say pranksters

The Verge

Last week, numerous news outlets reported that a string of European politicians had been tricked by a sophisticated Russian plot. Parliamentarians from the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had all arranged video calls with a hoaxer claiming to be Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to imprisoned Russian anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

TechCrunch

The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. Proton , the Swiss company behind encrypted email service ProtonMail , already has hubs across its native Switzerland, Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Taiwan. Financial independence. Elsewhere, it seems that the U.S.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. Twitter blocks links to Threads Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is pushing back at reports that Twitter traffic is tanking as a result of the July 5 launch of a new competitor, Instagram Threads.

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Americans still believe they live in a compassionate country, report shows

Fast Company Tech

As the granddaughter of immigrants from Lithuania and Poland who spoke little English, I understand what its like to be treated as a stranger in America. government for Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on international conflict resolution, I have learned that compassion is a key ingredient of peacemaking.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

As you may know, the government has been tightening regulations associated with deep synthesis technologies (DST) and generative AI services, including ChatGPT. TechCrunch Reporter Devin Coldewey reports: This kind of investigation doesn’t just appear out of thin air — the FTC doesn’t look around and say “That looks suspicious.”

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