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Starting May nineteenth, the Take It Down Act requires tech platforms across the United States to respond to takedown requests for nonconsensual intimate images. Wired has mapped out how more than a dozen major platforms are building out their compliance systems, and the details reveal just how differently each company is approaching the same legal obligation.
On a lighter note, a Burger King location in Sheffield, England is dealing with a very different kind of firewall problem. A Windows Firewall alert has taken over the customer-facing progress screen, leaving the restaurant's digital ordering display stuck in a rather public error state. Sometimes the most relatable tech failures happen at the drive-through.
And a piece worth revisiting is making the rounds again: a two thousand eleven essay asking why education startups so rarely succeed. The core argument still stings — that education's incentives are misaligned in ways that make genuine disruption nearly impossible, no matter how much capital flows in. Fourteen years later, the question feels just as open.
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