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UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
15 hours ago

Child sex abuse image crimes rise by almost 10% in a year', NSPCC says

Child sexual abuse image crimes in the UK increased by 10 percent to 36,829 offences, prompting calls for mandatory technology protections on children's devices to block nude image creation and sharing.
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
1 day ago

Age verification isn't sage verification inside OSes

California's Digital Age Assurance Act attempts age verification for minors but is vague, incoherent, and creates liability risks without clearly defining compliance requirements or addressing practical implementation across diverse computing devices.
EU data protection
fromPrivacy International
3 days ago

Our key achievements from 2025

Organizations successfully challenged governments and corporations on data exploitation and technology misuse, achieving regulatory compliance rulings and policy reforms that protect hundreds of millions of people globally.
Tech industry
fromNextgov.com
4 days ago

AI has created 'almost infinite demand' for memory components, Dell execs say

Dell executives identify semiconductor memory capacity as the primary U.S. supply chain challenge, with AI demand vastly outpacing production capacity and requiring regulatory support to scale infrastructure.
Women in technology
fromFortune
6 days ago

Washington state wants to keep employers from microchipping workers, before anyone even gets the idea | Fortune

Washington state is advancing legislation to ban employers from requiring employees to receive microchip implants, becoming the 14th state to implement such protections for bodily autonomy.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Ministers must act more quickly on deepfakes to protect women and girls, Kendall says

Technology develops faster than government can regulate it, requiring more frequent legislative reviews rather than updates every eight years to address emerging threats like deepfakes and online misogyny.
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence

I came out here and I found the Coco in my garden. It had got my fence caught up in its wheel. It uprooted a whole bunch of [plants] in my garden and then just drove away with the fence attached to it.
Pets
US politics
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe

Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft's software licensing practices for potential antitrust violations, particularly regarding cloud service deployment pricing.
Public health
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks ago

Larry Magid: At Safer Internet Day, teens seek safer, smarter tech design

Technology's benefits should be preserved while risks are managed through research-informed guardrails, education, and appropriate regulation.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Doomscrolling, people pleasing and low-fat foods? Life's too short! Nine writers on what they won't bother with this year

I tried the usual tricks: switching off notifications, deleting addictive apps, moving icons around, greyscale mode. None of it worked. Without notifications, I just checked more to see if something had happened. When I deleted apps, I used the browser instead. And when I deleted that I would eventually reinstall everything in a weak moment. (Which usually meant spending even more time on my phone as I had to log in everywhere again.)
Digital life
US politics
fromFortune
2 months ago

Spotify gets wrapped up in EU's tangle with Silicon Valley as Trump administration threatens vengeance for 'discriminatory and harassing' behavior | Fortune

The U.S. threatens fees, restrictions, and other retaliatory measures against European companies over perceived discriminatory EU regulation of American tech service providers.
SF politics
fromMission Local
2 months ago

Drone wars: Doordash will need S.F. permit to test flying burritos on Folsom

San Francisco now requires Planning Commission approval for outdoor drone testing in PDR-zoned areas, after interim zoning controls were unanimously passed.
US politics
fromNextgov.com
5 months ago

Shutdown could delay Congress 'getting serious' about AI policy

Government shutdown is delaying implementation of federal technology and AI policy, pushing those initiatives behind larger bills like the National Defense Authorization Act.
fromTheregister
6 months ago

Trump threatens taxes, bans, for nations that tax Big Tech

"Digital Taxes, Digital Services Legislation, and Digital Markets Regulations are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology. They also, outrageously, give a complete pass to China's largest Tech Companies," he added. "This must end, and NOW!" his post continued, before promising "substantial additional Tariffs" on any nation that dares to persist with regulations, plus "Export restrictions on our Highly Protected Technology and Chips."
US politics
#ai-policy
fromWIRED
7 months ago
Intellectual property law

Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

fromFortune
7 months ago
US politics

Podcast, policy, and pomp in DC at the surreal celebration of Trump's AI Action Plan

fromWIRED
7 months ago
Intellectual property law

Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

fromFortune
7 months ago
US politics

Podcast, policy, and pomp in DC at the surreal celebration of Trump's AI Action Plan

#artificial-intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 months ago

English-speaking countries more nervous about rise of AI, polls suggest

Public trust in AI regulation varies significantly between English-speaking countries and major EU economies, revealing a divide in sentiment toward the technology.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 months ago

English-speaking countries more nervous about rise of AI, polls suggest

Public trust in AI regulation varies significantly between English-speaking countries and major EU economies, revealing a divide in sentiment toward the technology.
fromInsideHook
7 months ago

Meta Pushes Back Against the EU's AI Code of Practice

Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, explained that Meta won't sign the European Commission's Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models, citing legal uncertainties.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.npr.org
8 months ago

Trump will toss TikTok another lifeline, pushing back its sell-by date for a third time

This would be Trump's third such lifeline for the app since taking office.
US politics
fromFuturism
10 months ago

White House Announces It Can Now "Manipulate Time and Space"

"At a time defined by the desire to build in America again, we have to throw off the burden of bad regulations that weigh down our innovators, and use federal resources to test, to deploy, and to mature emerging technologies."
Tech industry
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