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I haven’t watched a fight since Manny Pacquiao fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. way back in 2015, but I’d totally tune in if Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg duke it out in front of the camera. And I’m not the only one who would, based on the attention the idea of a fight between the two tech billionaires is getting on social media. 

It all started when Musk reacted to a report about Meta’s Twitter rival. Apparently, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox said the company has “been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run.” Someone told him to be careful, because Zuckerberg does jiu jiutsu now. “I’m up for a cage match if he is,” Musk responded. As The Verge reports, Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of the exchange as a story on his Instagram account with the note: “Send Me Location.”

Zuckerberg has been training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu for around a year now, and his efforts have been well-documented — he even competed in a tournament back in May and won gold and silver medals. As for Musk, he said he has a great move called “The Walrus” where he just lies on top of the opponent and does nothing. His proposed venue for the fight? The UFC Octagon in Las Vegas. 

Since Musk Vs. Zuckerberg will be the main event, Engadget editors have a few suggestions for undercard matches. Satya Nadella Vs. Sundar Pichai would be almost as interesting to see, especially now that Bing has finally become part of the conversation, thanks to its AI chatbot. And then there’s Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who can take their mobile-first services’ rivalry to the octagon. Since both Musk and Zuckerberg are looking for ways to monetize their platforms, the smart thing to do is to broadcast the event as pay-to-view live streams on Twitter Blue and Meta Verified. Of course, these are imaginary fights that will most likely not happen, but we’re expecting a juicy check as thanks for our ideas if they do. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/get-ready-for-a-zuck-vs-musk-cage-fight-100611527.html?src=rss 

Instead of pen and paper, many students are now carrying a laptop with them, using it for everything from taking notes to doing research. Companies are responding with programs designed for tech-centric learning, including Figma, a cloud-based design tool. The company has announced that Figma is now free for all US students in K-12, in partnership with Google for Education. The initiative started in beta last year, with 50 high schools across the country getting free access to Figma and FigJam, a collaborative whiteboard.

While Figma offers a free version, it only allows users to have three files for each program. Instead, schools can access the company’s most advanced tier, Figma Enterprise, for free (typically $75 per person monthly). It includes unlimited files, individual and shared project options, dedicated workspaces and more sophisticated design features, among other perks. Schools will need Chromebooks to utilize the program, but they can apply for access if they have non-Google systems. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 94 percent of schools provided devices like laptops and tablets to students who needed them for the 2022 to 2023 school year.

Figma’s fate is a bit up in the air after Adobe entered into an agreement to buy the competitor in September 2022 for $20 billion in cash and shares. Regulators across the US, UK and EU are investigating whether the deal violates antitrust policies, with the first barrier emerging in February with reports that the US Justice Department was preparing an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. The UK followed in May with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announcing it was launching an inquiry into the agreement. Most recently came reports that European antitrust regulators plan to initiate an investigation into the merger later this year.

As for free Figma access for students, the initiative holds promise, with the company sharing positive reviews from educators involved in the beta program. Educators can now sign up to bring Figma to their schools in the US — plus, the company is taking its Chromebook partnership global, starting with Google schools in Japan.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/figma-is-now-free-for-all-us-school-students-105514037.html?src=rss 

A new report has revealed alarming statistics about Discord’s issues with child safety. Over the past six years, NBC News identified 35 cases of adults being prosecuted on charges of “kidnapping, grooming or sexual assault” that allegedly involved Discord communication. At least 15 of those have resulted in guilty pleas or verdicts, with “many others” still pending. 

Reporters also discovered 165 more cases, including four crime rings, in which adults were prosecuted for sharing CSAM (child sexual exploitation material) via Discord or allegedly using the site to extort children into sending sexually graphic images of themselves, a practice known as sextortion. The illegal acts often take place in hidden communities and chat rooms, according to the report.

A simple Google search of “site:justice.gov Discord” yields a large number of hits, many of a disturbing nature. In one case identified by NBC News, “a teen was taken across state lines, raped and found locked in a backyard shed, according to police, after she was groomed on Discord for months.”

“What we see is only the tip of the iceberg,” the Canadian Center for Child Protection’s Stephen Sauer told NBC News. And it’s not the first time Discord has been under fire for its handling of child abuse complaints. Last year, CNN also identified numerous incidents of CSAM, with some parents claiming that Discord offered little help. 

Earlier this year, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) issued a statement titled “Discord Dishonestly Responds to How it Handles Child Sexual Abuse Material After Being Named to 2023 Dirty Dozen List.” Among other things, it noted that CSAM links were identified and reported, but still available on Discord’s servers “over two weeks later.” It added that Discord’s actions in responding to the issues are “far too passive, failing to proactively search for and remove exploitation.” It recommended that the site, which currently has over 150 million users, ban minors “until it is radically transformed.” 

In a recent transparency report, Discord said its “investment and prioritization in child safety has never been more robust,” adding that it disabled 37,102 accounts and removed 17,425 servers for child safety violations. The company’s VP of trust and safety, John Redgrave, told NBC News that he believes the platform’s approach to the issue has improved since Discord bought the AI moderation company Sentropy in 2021. It uses several systems to proactively detect CSAM and analyze user behavior, and Redgrave said that he thinks the company now proactively detects most materials that already “identified, verified and indexed.” 

However, the systems can’t currently detect child sexual abuse materials or messages that have yet to be indexed. In a review of Discord servers created over the past month, NBC News found 242 that use thinly disguised terms to market CSAM. 

Discord isn’t the only social media company with CSAM problems. A recent report found that Instagram helped “connect and promote a vast network of accounts” devoted to underage-sex content. However, Discord has reportedly made it particularly difficult for law enforcement at times, in one case asking for payment after the Ontario Police asked it to preserve records, according to the report. Engadget as reached out to Discord for comment. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/discord-still-has-a-child-safety-issue-085304790.html?src=rss 

YouTube TV has expanded its multiview feature’s scope so that even non-sports fans can enjoy it. When the service launched multiview, it could show up to four sports streams on the screen at once. But now users will be able to choose from streams with news, business news and weather content, in addition to sports streams. Viewers will still have to pick from preselected videos and can’t choose whatever stream they want to watch in multiview, but at least they now have more choices and don’t have to stick to having all four screens tuned into sporting events. 

The service first rolled out multiview in March with a focus on sports, just in time for NCAA’s March Madness. Multiview is supported on all smart TVs and media players that can run YouTube TV, because the processing is done on the service’s servers. While viewers can keep an eye on all four streams at once, they can jump to a full-screen view for each one and switch the audio and the captioning to whatever event they want to focus on at the moment. 

In addition to expanding multiview’s repertoire, YouTube TV is also adding Spanish-language sports channels to the preselected stream options for members with a Spanish or Spanish Plus plan. Some members might not have access to the expanded multiview options yet, but they will soon enough — YouTube TV says it gradually roll out these updates to all users over the summer. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/youtube-tvs-multiview-streams-now-include-non-sports-options-060246814.html?src=rss