Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B for sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to end the transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Biden nominates veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez as FCC Commissioner, and nominates Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new FCC terms  —  The White House also nominated Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new terms on the Commission. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped  —  An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts.  —  Chloe Xiang Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Email: Uber suspends its diversity head, Bo Young Lee, for hosting sessions on race titled “Don’t Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC  —  The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar. Lees verder op Tech Meme