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Lauren Feiner

Lauren Feiner

Senior Policy Reporter

Senior Policy Reporter

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    Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

    App stores are gateways. Lawmakers want them to have checkpoints.

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    Lauren Feiner
    Lauren Feiner
    Europe demands X retain documents amid Grok’s undressing spree.

    The European Commission extended an order requiring X to keep documents related to Grok through the end of the year so that it can evaluate compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), Reuters reports. X is facing international scrutiny as its AI chatbot continues virtually undressing images without consent.

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    Lauren Feiner
    FCC Chair Brendan Carr will return to Congress next week.

    Carr and fellow FCC commissioners Anna Gomez and Olivia Trusty are set to testify before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on January 14th for an agency oversight hearing. The trio testified before the Senate Commerce Committee last month, where Carr doubled down on his threats to broadcasters.

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    Lauren Feiner
    The group that funded PBS and NPR votes to dissolve after congressional cuts.

    The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) board voted to wind down the 58-year-old organization after Congress slashed its funding. CPB president and CEO Patricia Harrison said shutting it down would “protect the integrity of the public media system ... rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.”

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    Lauren Feiner
    Another landlord agrees to steer clear of algorithmic rent price recommendations.

    The Justice Department reached a proposed agreement with landlord LivCor to resolve claims that it illegally coordinated rent prices with other landlords using algorithmic recommendations from RealPage. The DOJ previously settled with RealPage, and two large landlords involved in the case.