The Morning After: Hulu officially joins Disney+

The Morning After: Hulu officially joins Disney+

A month after taking full ownership of Hulu last November, Disney started beta testing integration with Disney+. Today, Hulu on Disney+ is officially out of beta, making it easy for subscribers to access content for both services. It’s also a way for Disney to push its Hulu bundle, which starts at $9.99 a month with … Read more

Twitch bans streams overlaid on boobs and butts

No more Fortnite Twitch streams on butts. I said what I said. If you’re out of the loop on all things Twitch, there’s a trend going around of streamers projecting their gameplays on green-screened body parts, usually intimate ones like butts and breasts. Because normal picture-in-picture is now apparently too boring. Twitch is putting a … Read more

Oregon’s Right to Repair bill is now a law

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has signed the state’s Right to Repair bill into law, and it even comes with a provision that potentially makes it stronger than California’s and Minnesota’s versions. It’s the first to prohibit (PDF) a practice called “parts pairing,” which requires the use of certain proprietary components for repair. Parts pairing prevents … Read more

Anti-trans hate is ‘widespread’ on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns

Meta is failing to enforce its own rules against anti-trans hate speech on its platform, a new report from GLAAD warns. The LGBTQ advocacy group found that “extreme anti-trans hate content remains widespread across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.” The report documents dozens of examples of hate speech from Meta’s apps, which GLAAD says were reported … Read more

Israel’s military reportedly used Google Photos to identify civilians in Gaza

The New York Times reports that Israel’s military intelligence has been using an experimental facial recognition program in Gaza that’s misidentified Palestinian civilians as having ties to Hamas. Google Photos allegedly plays a part in the chilling program’s implementation, although it appears not to be through any direct collaboration with the company. The surveillance program … Read more

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