Ashley Belanger is a senior policy reporter at Ars Technica. With 20 years of experience, she focuses on the social impacts of emerging policies and technologies, particularly in areas such as AI, cryptocurrency, social media, and cybersecurity. Her investigative work has been featured in notable publications including WIRED and National Geographic, and she is currently contributing to an anthology on online speech and authoritarianism.
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Ashley Belanger's coverage focuses on legal issues, cryptocurrency, online platforms, technology, and cybersecurity. She reports extensively on legal policy regulation and government announcements related to content & publishing, big tech, and government & politics.
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By: Ashley Belanger
Meta is rolling out an obvious fix to make its AI glasses less creepy amid backlash over the glasses' non-consensual recordings that have flooded the Internet. On Friday, The Verge reported that Meta closed a loophole that made it easy for smart-glasses users to cover up an LED light that is supposed to alert… Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Journalism & News Industry
Lawsuit: Anthropic's torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
On Thursday, the Trump administration imposed a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made drones, alarming critics who warn that high tariffs would harm public safety and devastate thousands of US businesses.
By: Ashley Belanger
Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.
By: Ashley Belanger
On Thursday, Elon Musk's X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. In his opinion, Chief Judge Colm Connolly explained that Operation Bluebird was unlikely to prove that X had entirely abandoned the Twitter name. Therefore, X was likely to succeed… Mobile Apps & Add-Ons
By: Ashley Belanger
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
By: Ashley Belanger
24 pts It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a religious mania that almost ended his life. In July, Lines sued OpenAI after weeks of ChatGPT exchanges allegedly pushed him so deep into a delusional spiral that he first believed he was Jesus, then that…
By: Ashley Belanger
6 pts The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs. In a joint release Tuesday, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy proceedings.
By: Ashley Belanger
Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a startup called Springshot in 2011, which created a widely used proprietary platform that helps humans and AI systems… Access Premium News
