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The EU Wants to Break Up Kids and Their Chatbots

The rules will be part of the EU Kids Act , proposed on Thursday, which includes similar restrictions on minors’ access to social media and video-sharing platforms. Children under 13 will be banned from accessing…

The farmer who turned to singing after bovine TB silenced his fields

It was a traumatic time for a man who had farmed his whole life, and it was hard watching his neighbours tend to their cows. His sister suggested he should join the Farmers' Choir and that turned out to be a "great…

Google Ordered To Allow More Ad Competition

Google will also need to appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, given the “gravity” of its violations, but the monitor will have less oversight than the Justice Department had requested. The ruling, which was…

Gemini won't clean up my Google Drive, so I let Claude do it; I'm not going back

It's full of PDFs I don't remember downloading, screenshots called things like Screenshot 2024-03-11 at 9.42.17 am, and the same file duplicated across half a dozen folders. I have a digital hygiene routine. But life has…

Oversight Board says Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate'

The group published its two latest decisions dealing with the social media company's handling of AI content. The cases show that Meta's rules are "consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of…

Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November

Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election. Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty Images On November 3, when voters across the US go to the polls…

Amazon’s Ring brings ‘Neighbours’ app to UK amid US controversy

Set to debut for free inside the main Ring app on October 21 , the service aims to replace the local WhatsApp and Facebook groups with a dedicated digital noticeboard for neighbourhood safety updates and lost pets. Users…

Beyond EAA compliance: Accessibility becomes the benchmark for digital quality

While websites , mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and digital banking services may meet recognized accessibility requirements, technical conformance alone does not always guarantee an accessible user experience. People…

An AI meant to learn from its mistakes exploited a mistake in the test

The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expensive. That is why the AI startup…

London's network infrastructure planning rules could be losing the city £2.7 billion a year in economic output

These legal notices from landowners demand that mobile operators remove equipment from properties, and are typically issued during construction, renovation or demolition, giving operators just 18 months to take action.…