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...
Labour MP Graeme Downie, the chair of the UK's cross-party coalition on secure technology, warns that Chinese components in smart devices pose a sabotage threat
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The UK opens a consultation on AI and copyright, aiming to offer an “opt out” exception to copyright law, forcing companies to open models to scrutiny, and more
Campaign for Protection of Rights Fights Back Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : Top AI labs aren't doing enough to ensure AI is safe, a flurry of recent datapoints suggest Find out how algorithmic tools are use...
A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A
and What Trump Must Do About It James Morales / CCN.com : UK Competition Watchdog Vows no ‘Blanket Rules’ for Big Tech Regulation X: Casey Handmer, PhD / @cjhandmer : Hard to believe that any serious ...
Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works
Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials
A planned UK data center project in Abbots Langley, seen as a test for the new Labour government's data center push, stokes tensions among the local community
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Google's limits on microtargeting of political ads for state and federal candidates shakes up ad plans and frustrates both Democrats and Republicans
but it's a secret April Glaser / Slate : Will Google's Changes to Political Ads Hurt Democrats or Republicans More? Washington Post : Google's new political ad rules unite Democratic and Republican ca...
UK's Labour party pledges free broadband for all by 2030, by nationalizing part of BT and introducing a tax on tech giants, if it wins the general election
Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it wins the general election.