Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to access “mature content” games on Steam; Discord and others are using selfies for verification
UK's Online Safety Act requires blocking minors from accessing mature content Asha Bardon / CBR : Steam Now Needs Your Age & ID Verified When You Buy Mature Video Games Richard Devine / Windows Centra...
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification. — That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous. — www.thev...
YouGov: 87% of Britons would back a law requiring developers to prove their AI tools are safe before release and 60% support banning “smarter-than-human” models
Billy Perrigo / Time : Forums: r/ControlProblem , r/artificial , r/OpenAI , r/ukpolitics , r/technology , r/LabourUK , and r/unitedkingdom Forums: r/ControlProblem : Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than H...
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK
Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers — Mobile users in the UK had the least reliable experience … Bluesky: @seanfionn . X: @workmj . Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/unitedk...
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
In an ingenious move to combat the UK's growing fraud epidemic, O2 has unveiled their newest team member - an AI-powered “Head of Scammer Relations” named Daisy. … Seth Ruden : One of the running them...
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
After a survey found that 71% of Brits want revenge on scammers, mobile operator O2 deploys Daisy, an AI tool that keeps fraudsters on the line to waste their time.
a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in London-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI
Over the last year it has become clear that blockchains … Reuters : London crypto move is a sign of desperate times FinSMEs : Gensyn Raises £33.8M in Series A Funding Eli Dambel / Bitcoinist.com : a16...
Founders fear that the collapse of SVB, which had branches in the UK, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, and more, could wipe out startups around the world
Because startups that banked with SVB don't have access to their funds … Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Silicon Valley Bank collapse is impacting many Indian startups Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑D...
Many LatAm migrant workers in the US are using crypto to send money home; crypto exchange Bitso says it processes $1B+ per year in US remittances sent to Mexico
When traditional exchanges closed during the pandemic, many workers turned to crypto to send remittances home. — • ACAPULCO, MEXICO Tweets: @gquaggiotto , @restofworld , @blackamazon , @apompliano ,...