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That didn't take long. Hot on the heels of Twitter , Reddit has updated its rules to expressly ban AI-generated "deepfake" porn . Where it previously had a single rule forbidding porn and suggestive material involving minors, it now has two -- and it's clear that you're not allowed to post "depictions that have been faked." You also can't post regular imagery of others with the goal of producing fake nonconsensual porn. Accordingly, Reddit has cracked down on some of the offending communities. It has shut down the deepfakes subreddit that got the ball rolling, as well as YouTubefakes. It hasn't closed non-deepfake subreddits like CelebFakes, however, and it's also maintaining the communities with more innocuous intentions, such as FakeApp (the program itself) and SFWdeepfakes. At the moment, this is more about addressing the specific violations that triggered the uproar than to stamp out every potential violation of the policy. In a sta...

That scrapped proposal for a goverment-run 5G network is triggering a political fallout. A senor official has confirmed to the Washington Post that the author of the memo pushing for the 5G network, Brigadier General Robert Spalding, has left his position as the National Security Council's senior director for strategic planning and returned to the Air Force. He wasn't fired, the insider claimed, and this wasn't prompted by the leak -- rather, the Council decided against renewing his position in part because his push for government 5G had "gone beyond his role." Brig. Gen. Spalding's last day in the White House was January 31st, or 3 days after the memo surfaced at Axios . He wasn't officially punished, according to the tipster, so he's free to take whatever job he's qualified to handle. The general isn't known to be responsible for the leak, but that apparently didn't matter. Reportedly, officials had already been worried that he wa...