You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here Adventure Time is the next collaboration that will come to Fortnite. The collab was added with the v34.30 update on Tuesday, and Epic Games will release it very soon. The game developer has revealed its release date, and we already know all of the items and their prices. If you want to know the release date of the Fortnite x Adventure Time collaboration, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll reveal everything you need to know, including more than a dozen cosmetics that will come with the partnership! What’s the release date of the Fortnite x Adventure Time collaboration? Epic Games revealed that the release date of the Fortnite x Adventure Time collaboration is Friday, April 11. This means that all the available cosmetic items, which are listed below, will come to the shop at 8 PM Eastern Time (midnight UTC). Thanks to the leaking community, we already have a list and prices of all the Adventure Time cosmetics that will come to Fortnite. Item NamePriceFinn the Human (Outfit)1,500 V-BucksFinn’s Backpack (Back Bling)Included with OutfitScarlet (Pickaxe)800 V-BucksJake the Dog (Outfit)1,500 V-BucksMarceline (Outfit)1,500 V-BucksHambo (Back Bling)300 V-BucksMarceline’s Parasol (Pickaxe)800 V-BucksMarcy’s Ax Bass (Instrument)800 V-BucksPrincess Bubblegum (Outfit)1,500 V-BucksPeppermint Axe (Pickaxe)800 V-BucksLumpy Space Piano (Keytar)800 V-BucksJake Chute (Glider)800 V-BucksLumpy Space Princess (Back Bling)600 V-BucksBMO (Back Bling)600 V-BucksBMO Game Time (Emote)400 V-BucksJake Car (Emote)500 V-BucksJake Bug Dance (Emote)500 V-Bucks The Adventure Time collaboration will bring numerous new cosmetics. Image by VideoGamer Furthermore, Epic Games will also release the Adventure Time x Mamba bundle, which costs 1,500 V-Bucks. This bundle includes a Mamba car, as well as two decals. It’s currently unknown how long these items will stay in the shop. However, considering they are new, we expect them to be available for at least one week. Fortnite Platform(s): Android, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X Genre(s): Action, Massively Multiplayer, Shooter 9 VideoGamer Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

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The White House is insisting that Donald Trump’s vision of Apple’s flagship iPhones being manufactured in the US will come to fruition, despite assertions from analysts and the company itself that it would not be possible.The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters during Tuesday’s briefing that the president believed Apple’s recently announced $500bn investment, as well as increasing import costs sparked by his trade tariffs, would encourage the company to ramp up manufacturing in the US.“He believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it. If Apple didn’t think the US could do it, they probably wouldn’t have put up that big chunk of change,” she said.Trump doubled down on the claim on Wednesday, posting to his Truth Social network that: “This is a great time to move your company into the US, like Apple, and so many others, in record numbers, are doing.“Zero tariffs, and almost immediate electrical/energy hook ups and approvals. No environmental delays.”The problem, according to experts, including Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, and his predecessor, the late Steve Jobs, is that the US does not have the workforce of other nations where the vast majority of its electronics are currently manufactured, such as China, which makes about 85% of iPhones, India and Vietnam.They say it puts out of reach a vision presented by Howard Lutnick, Trump’s commerce secretary, to CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, of Apple, and other tech companies, tapping into “the tradecraft of America” to get its products made.“Remember the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones? That kind of thing is going to come to America,” Lutnick said.“It’s going to be automated and great Americans – the tradecraft of America – is going to fix them, is going to work on them.”Jobs, however, was adamant as far back as 2010 that such a scenario could not come to pass. Axios reported on Tuesday comments Jobs made, in Walter Isaacson’s biography, during conversations with Barack Obama, that the US lacked the quantity of highly trained personnel the company would need.Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, Jobs said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers.“You can’t find that many in America to hire,” he said.More recently, Cook, whom Trump memorably referred to as “Tim Apple” during his first term, was just as forthright, Axios reported. Cook told Fortune in 2017 that companies like his relied on countries such as China not for cheap labor, but the quality of trained employees.“The reason is because of the skill and the quantity of skill in one location, and the type of skill,” he said.skip past newsletter promotionSign up to First ThingFree daily newsletterOur US morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it mattersPrivacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.after newsletter promotion“[Our] products require really advanced tooling. The precision that you have to have in tooling, and working with the materials that we do, are state-of-the-art, and the tooling skill is very deep here.“In the US you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China you could fill multiple football fields.”Other experts, meanwhile, reject the White House’s insistence that tariffs will encourage Apple to begin building its products in the US with American workers aided by robots.“I don’t think that’s a thing,” Laura Martin, a senior technology analyst at Needham, told CNBC’s The Exchange.“You couldn’t do it immediately, it takes years. India’s taken like three years to get up to 14% of [Apple’s] iPhone volumes.”Anxiety over tariffs has contributed to Apple’s market woes, with stock having slumped about 31% this year. On Wednesday, it was reported that Microsoft had overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable company.

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The race begins this June.We've now seen a fair bit of Mario Kart World footage thanks to the latest Switch 2 Direct and Treehouse broadcast.If you're still curious to know what exactly it's like though, we've put together a round up featuring thoughts from various game websites. Starting with our hands on here on Nintendo Life, we can't wait to dive back in:Read the full article on nintendolife.com

It would appear the environment and society remain relevant, whatever you might hear in some other quarters. At least, that’s one conclusion to be drawn from the news that European specialist VC Revent has closed a  €100 million ($109 million) Fund II to invest in “planetary and societal health” startups.  Launched out of Berlin in 2021 by Otto Birnbaum and Lauren Lentz, Revent’s thesis was (and remains) that the most ambitious entrepreneurs want to build companies that drive societal progress, and this might, therefore, become highly valuable. High-minded stuff. Admittedly, geopolitics have moved in such a way as to suggest “progress” might look quite different to the views of 2021. But with all that said, the pair has assembled a significant array of LPs to back the new fund.  These include the German retail giant the Otto Group, Goldbeck, Wepa, Oetker, Beiersdorf, and Hymer, as well as a number of European tech founders. The European Investment Fund has also increased its commitment in Revent’s second fund. Lentz told TechCrunch that the fund is looking for startups in energy transition, industrial decarbonization, healthcare, climate, economic empowerment, and reskilling, among others. Since launch, it’s invested in 26 companies. “Many in climate tech, some in health tech, some in empowerment. And overall, things have gone really well. We’ve had a number of companies that were picked up by tier-one general funds,” she said. Lentz said the fund has always tried to position itself in the third category, “as a performance-focused fund, investing in planetary and societal health, in terms of long-term value creation. In the early days, there were some folks who were skeptical and didn’t understand why we were not just calling ourselves impact or climate. But now, I think, in this current macro environment, his positioning makes quite a bit of sense for a lot of people, and allows us to really use the language of driving value by investing in long-term essential transitions.” Revent’s LPs are very long-term oriented, she said. “I think they are not afraid of what’s happening in the U.S. right now. I think they, in fact, believe that it’s important to continue investing in these spaces despite what’s happening in the US. And I think there’s this idea of Europe, kind of standing up and punching back and figuring out what values it stands for, and investing heavily in these spaces.” She sees more capital going toward so-called re-industrialization, European sovereignty, and defense, and “would not be surprised” if now there is a proliferation of new emerging specialist funds. “I think Europe now needs to figure out what it stands for … tech and innovation as part of that, and I think capital will flow to some extent that direction.” The team is now split across Berlin, London, Paris, and now has a venture partner in San Francisco.

Investigative reporter Dónal MacIntyre has asked the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to look into allegations that he was placed under directed surveillance and had his social media posts monitored by Northern Ireland police. MacIntyre has learned that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) placed him under surveillance when he began his investigation into the mysterious death of a Belfast teenager in August 2023. MacIntyre is one of the most prominent investigative reporters in Britain, and the man behind the BBC’s MacIntyre undercover and CBS reality show Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved. Since 2023, MacIntyre has led an investigation into the death of Noah Donohoe, a mixed-race Catholic teenager whose remains were found in a Belfast storm drain in 2020. Police handling of the case has drawn widespread criticism from the public. MacIntyre’s suspicions were first raised when he arrived at Heathrow Airport after a three-day trip to Ireland in October 2024 to find his car had been broken into. Sensitive files left on a seat had been scattered all over the car floor, while cash, jewellery and technology were left undisturbed. Then, two months after the break-in, MacIntyre was contacted by a reporter from the Belfast Telegraph, who had been told by a reliable source that MacIntyre had been placed under police surveillance. The surveillance, the source claimed, had begun around the time the reporter had begun investigating the teen’s disappearance.   The spying operation was said to have been given an unknown codename. The source also claimed that messages between MacIntyre and Donohoe’s mother had been accessed by police. Despite being repeatedly questioned as to whether they had spied on MacIntyre, the PSNI did not deny the allegations until five days later. Jon Boutcher, chief constable of the PSNI, told a Northern Ireland Policing Board meeting that in August 2023, the force had taken information from two Twitter accounts.  Boutcher said: “These communications would have been publicly accessible, but I accept the publisher of the posts would not be aware that PSNI had viewed and captured the publications. No confidential journalistic material was viewed or recorded.”  MacIntyre told Computer Weekly that his submission to the coroner charged with investigating the circumstances of Donohoe’s death seemed to be the main target of interest during the break-in. The submission included a summary of the findings of his investigation into Donohoe’s death and the police handling of the case, and raised questions over the reliability of the IT systems used by the PSNI to record reports of crime incidents. When MacIntyre contacted airport police, he told Computer Weekly, they informed him that there was no CCTV in the car park. Donohoe’s death and questions surrounding police handling of the case have commanded massive attention in the North of Ireland.  If MacIntyre’s investigation reveals failures in the PSNI’s handling of the case, it could be highly embarrassing for the force.  MacIntyre told Computer Weekly that if it is found that he was subject to an authorised direct surveillance operation, Boutcher should be forced to resign as PSNI chief constable. The threshold for commissioning directed surveillance is high. It is only legal for the police to commission this type of surveillance in extreme circumstances, such as where someone’s life is at risk or for preventing or detecting serious crime.  Last year, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled that the PSNI had placed Belfast-based journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey under unlawful surveillance over their investigation into collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary and loyalist paramilitaries. Figures disclosed to the Northern Ireland Policing Board last year also showed significant police spying on journalists and lawyers between 2011 and 2024.  According to the data, police had made 823 applications for communications data relating to journalists who were victims, suspects or witnesses to crime. Ten of the PSNI applications explicitly sought to identify journalistic sources. MacIntyre has also submitted evidence to the McCullough Review – a review established last year by chief constable Boutcher to investigate PSNI spying on journalists and lawyers. Last week, however, concerns were raised after it was announced that some of the findings may be included in a closed annex, inaccessible to the public. McCaffrey, a victim of unlawful police spying, told Computer Weekly he was “very concerned that large parts of the McCullough Review may now be kept secret” and that the PSNI was using the excuse of protecting national security as a “smoke screen” intended to “prevent the exposure of their unlawful spying operations”. He said when the McCullough Review was announced in June 2024, journalists had been assured “it would be independent and thorough and would restore public confidence in policing”.  A review that fails to grant the public full access, he said, will not suffice: “The only process which can fully restore public confidence in policing is an independent, judge-led public inquiry with full powers to compel all evidence.” Read more about police surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland Journalists seek legal costs after PSNI’s ‘ridiculous’ withholding of evidence in spying operation delayed court hearings. The Metropolitan Police monitored the phones of 16 BBC journalists on behalf of police in Northern Ireland, a cross-party group of MPs heard. Over 40 journalists and lawyers submit evidence to PSNI surveillance inquiry. Conservative MP adds to calls for public inquiry over PSNI police spying. Tribunal criticises PSNI and Met Police for spying operation to identify journalists’ sources. Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears. Ex-PSNI officer ‘deeply angered’ by comments made by a former detective at a tribunal investigating allegations of unlawful surveillance against journalists. Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case. Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective. We need a judge-led inquiry into police spying on journalists and lawyers. Former assistant chief constable, Alan McQuillan, claims the PSNI used a dedicated laptop to access the phone communications data of hundreds of lawyers and journalists. Northern Irish police used covert powers to monitor over 300 journalists. Police chief commissions ‘independent review’ of surveillance against journalists and lawyers. Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble-making journalists’. BBC instructs lawyers over allegations of police surveillance of journalist. The Policing Board of Northern Ireland has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland to produce a public report on its use of covert surveillance powers against journalists and lawyers after it gave ‘utterly vague’ answers. PSNI chief constable Jon Boutcher has agreed to provide a report on police surveillance of journalists and lawyers to Northern Ireland’s policing watchdog but denies industrial use of surveillance powers. Report reveals Northern Ireland police put up to 18 journalists and lawyers under surveillance. Three police forces took part in surveillance operations between 2011 and 2018 to identify sources that leaked information to journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears. Amnesty International and the Committee on the Administration of Justice have asked Northern Ireland’s policing watchdog to open an inquiry into the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s use of surveillance powers against journalists. Britain’s most secret court is to hear claims that UK authorities unlawfully targeted two journalists in a ‘covert surveillance’ operation after they exposed the failure of police in Northern Ireland to investigate paramilitary killings. The Police Service of Northern Ireland is unable to delete terabytes of unlawfully seized data taken from journalists who exposed police failings in the investigation of the Loughinisland sectarian murders. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has agreed to investigate complaints by Northern Ireland investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey that they were unlawfully placed under surveillance.

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There are countless heartwarming stories about different ways the Apple Watch has helped saved people’s lives. In addition to the emergency SOS and fall detection features, the Watch offers a suite of insights which can help identify precursors to life-threatening diseases. Recently, a similar story made news when a woman’s cancer was caught, thanks to active alerts from an Apple Watch 10. Amanda Faulkner, a consulting psychiatrist from New Zealand, recently narrated her story where her Apple Watch 10 helped diagnose a rare form of blood cancer, which, if left undiagnosed, would have left her dead in a matter of few days. Faulkner told the New Zealand Herald that her Apple Watch notified her of her unusually high resting heart rate of around 90 beats per minute — which would typically be around 55 for her. Recommended Videos Despite being a physician and a psychologist, Faulkner brushed the alerts off, thinking of them as a result of probably just being stressed at work — she had over 60 patients at the time. The fact that she and her husband had recently been taking a hiking trip in Australia made her believe her Apple Watch 10 might be faulty. Joe Maring / Digital Trends However, as the Apple Watch kept “constantly nagging” her with alerts. These alerts came from the Watch’s Vitals app, which Apple introduced last year to bring a resourceful summary of health metrics measured overnight. The Vitals app highlights any unusual attributes or “Outliers,” highlighting aspects that may be out of their usual range. Related When Faulkner visited her general physician for the elevated resting heart rate, she was immediately asked to admit in the ER at a hospital in Hastings, North Island. Within a few hours — following some tests — she was diagnosed with AML or “Acute Myeloid Leukemia,” a rare form of blood cancer that is prevalent in children and seniors but affects only 4 adults in 100,000 adults, as per Cleveland Clinic. AML is an aggressive and fast-progressing cancer that progresses across the body rapidly over a few weeks, which is why early detection is vital. While remission is easily achieved with chemotherapy, it has a high remission rate, as per research, which is why Faulkner is now due to for a stem cell transplant to replace her bone marrow. Her husband hailed the Apple Watch’s “life-changing” contribution in early detection and gave the Kiwi doctor an early head start in her fight against cancer. Nirave Gondhia / Digital Trends Since the Apple Watch is not a medical grade equipment, it should not be considered the ultimate tool to detect any ailments. Apple itself insists the Apple Watch should not be treated as a proxy for medical advice. However, its insights can be used as warning signs for an early onset of a life-threatening diseases. The Apple Watch can also be an excellent tool of rehabilitation after intense medical incidents, as it did in the case of Digital Trends contributor Nirave Gondhia when he suffered a cardiac arrest at 33. Gondhia maintains a close look at any out-of-ordinary metrics, while also managing his medical records and information about allergies, to stay abreast with any looming medical uncertainties. Apple Watch’s medical intervention, however, will be limited to conditions that impact the heart, since its sensory data mostly relies on heart rate — except using gyroscopic data for crash and fall detection. In addition, the Apple Watch can detect Atrial fibrillation (AFib), which can be an early symptom of stroke or heart failure. The upcoming Apple Watch is also rumored to get hypertension alerts, though it’s unclear whether the Apple Watch will measure blood pressure using a dedicated monitor or use your hearth rate data to estimate it, like the Galaxy Watch 4 and above do. Editors’ Recommendations

Take It Down Act Take It Down Act nears passage; critics warn Trump could use it against enemies Anti-deepfake bill raises concerns about censorship and breaking encryption. Jon Brodkin – Apr 9, 2025 4:01 pm | 74 The helicopter with outgoing US President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden departs from the East Front of the United States Capitol after the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty Images The helicopter with outgoing US President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden departs from the East Front of the United States Capitol after the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty Images Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only   Learn more An anti-deepfake bill is on the verge of becoming US law despite concerns from civil liberties groups that it could be used by President Trump and others to censor speech that has nothing to do with the intent of the bill. The bill is called the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes On Websites and Networks Act, or Take It Down Act. The Senate version co-sponsored by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was approved in the Senate by unanimous consent in February and is nearing passage in the House. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce approved the bill in a 49-1 vote yesterday, sending it to the House floor. The bill pertains to "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions," including both authentic photos shared without consent and forgeries produced by artificial intelligence or other technological means. Publishing intimate images of adults without consent could be punished by a fine and up to two years of prison. Publishing intimate images of minors under 18 could be punished with a fine or up to three years in prison. Online platforms would have 48 hours to remove such images after "receiving a valid removal request from an identifiable individual (or an authorized person acting on behalf of such individual)." "No man, woman, or child should be subjected to the spread of explicit AI images meant to target and harass innocent victims," House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) said in a press release. Guthrie's press release included quotes supporting the bill from first lady Melania Trump, two teen girls who were victimized with deepfake nudes, and the mother of a boy whose death led to an investigation into a possible sextortion scheme. Free speech concerns The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been speaking out against the bill, saying "it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like." The EFF pointed to Trump's comments in an address to a joint session of Congress last month, in which he suggested he would use the bill for his own ends. "Once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law. And I'm going to use that bill for myself too if you don't mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody," Trump said, drawing laughs from the crowd at Congress. The EFF said, "Congress should believe Trump when he says he would use the Take It Down Act simply because he's 'treated badly,' despite the fact that this is not the intention of the bill. There is nothing in the law, as written, to stop anyone—especially those with significant resources—from misusing the notice-and-takedown system to remove speech that criticizes them or that they disagree with." Free speech concerns were raised in a February letter to lawmakers sent by the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Authors Guild, Demand Progress Action, the EFF, Fight for the Future, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, New America's Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, and TechFreedom. The bill's notice and takedown system "would result in the removal of not just nonconsensual intimate imagery but also speech that is neither illegal nor actually NDII [nonconsensual distribution of intimate imagery]... While the criminal provisions of the bill include appropriate exceptions for consensual commercial pornography and matters of public concern, those exceptions are not included in the bill's takedown system," the letter said. The letter also said the bill could incentivize online platforms to use "content filtering that would break encryption." The bill "excludes email and other services that do not primarily consist of user-generated content from the NTD [notice and takedown] system," but "direct messaging services, cloud storage systems, and other similar services for private communication and storage, however, could be required to comply with the NTD," the letter said. The bill "contains serious threats to private messaging and free speech online—including requirements that would force companies to abandon end-to-end encryption so they can read and moderate your DMs," Public Knowledge said today. Democratic amendments voted down Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) cast the only vote against the bill in yesterday's House Commerce Committee hearing. But there were also several party-line votes against amendments submitted by Democrats. Democrats raised concerns both about the bill not being enforced strictly enough and that bad actors could abuse the takedown process. The first concern is related to Trump firing both Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission. Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) called the Take It Down Act an "excellent law" but said, "right now it's feeling like empty words because my Republican colleagues just stood by while the administration fired FTC commissioners, the exact people who enforce this law... it feels almost like my Republican colleagues are just giving a wink and a nod to the predators out there who are waiting to exploit kids and other innocent victims." Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) offered an amendment to delay the bill's effective date until the Democratic commissioners are restored to their positions. Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) said that with a shorthanded FTC, "there's going to be no enforcement of the Take It Down Act. There will be no enforcement of anything related to kids' privacy." Rep. John James (R-Mich.) called the amendment a "thinly veiled delay tactic" and "nothing less than an attempt to derail this very important bill." The amendment was defeated in a 28-22 vote. Democrats support bill despite losing amendment votes Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said she strongly supports the bill but offered an amendment that she said would tighten up the text and close loopholes. She said her amendment "ensures constitutionally protected speech is preserved by incorporating essential provisions for consensual content and matters of public concern. My goal is to protect survivors of abuse, not suppress lawful expression or shield misconduct from public accountability." Dingell's amendment was also defeated in a 28-22 vote. Pallone pitched an amendment that he said would "prevent bad actors from falsely claiming to be authorized from making takedown requests on behalf of someone else." He called it a "common sense guardrail to protect against weaponization of this bill to take down images that are published with the consent of the subject matter of the images." The amendment was rejected in a voice vote. The bill was backed by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), which praised the committee vote in a statement yesterday. "We've worked with fierce determination for the past year to bring Take It Down forward because we know—and survivors know—that AI-assisted sexual abuse is sexual abuse and real harm is being done; real pain is caused," said Stefan Turkheimer, RAINN's VP of public policy. Cruz touted support for the bill from over 120 organizations and companies. The list includes groups like NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), along with various types of advocacy groups and tech companies Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, Amazon, and X Corp. "As bad actors continue to exploit new technologies like generative artificial intelligence, the Take It Down Act is crucial for ending the spread of exploitative sexual material online, holding Big Tech accountable, and empowering victims of revenge and deepfake pornography," Cruz said yesterday. Jon Brodkin Senior IT Reporter Jon Brodkin Senior IT Reporter Jon is a Senior IT Reporter for Ars Technica. He covers the telecom industry, Federal Communications Commission rulemakings, broadband consumer affairs, court cases, and government regulation of the tech industry. 74 Comments