Google rejects EU fact checking commitments for Search and YouTube Illustration: The VergeGoogle has notified the European Union that it won’t integrate work from fact-checking organizations into Search or YouTube, ahead of the bloc’s plans to expand disinformation laws. Google had previously signed a set of voluntary commitments that the EU introduced in 2022 to reduce the impact of online disinformation, whic…

LPT Request: How to get out of commitments with no planned date My neighbor wants to be besties, but I’m not interested in being more than neighborly. She keeps suggesting ‘let’s do a movie night” and asks when it works for me. I don’t want to commit to anything and I can’t say I’m busy forever, so how can I get out of plans that haven’t had a date established? I just don’t want to be involved in the plans a…

Nym Technologies Attracts $300M in Crypto Fund Commitments for Privacy Infrastructure The Nym Innovation Fund, with commitments from Polychain, KR1, Huobi Incubator and Eden Block, among others, supports projects aiming to safeguard privacy in the crypto ecosystem.

What NATO Said About Ukraine: Key Commitments Ukraine’s president wanted firmer commitments about when his country could join, but NATO’s 31 members did make some new pledges to draw Kyiv closer to the alliance.