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Women in technology
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks agoAI chatbots are creating new kinds of abuse against women and girls, report says
AI chatbots facilitate new forms of violence and abuse against women and girls by initiating sexual harassment, simulating abusive roleplay, and providing guidance to stalkers.
fromFortune
2 weeks agoAI and Crypto spent nearly $20 million to reshape Illinois's Democratic primaries. They mostly lost | Fortune
The companies flooded the state's Democratic primaries with millions of dollars to promote candidates they believed would have a light touch when it came to regulating technologies that have begun to upend how people do their jobs and manage their finances. Using super PACs that are allowed to spend unlimited sums of money, they ran television advertising and distributed campaign fliers that only occasionally alluded to their industries.
US Elections
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks agoChild 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
2 weeks agoAge 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 weeks agoOur 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
3 weeks agoAI 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
3 weeks agoWashington 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
3 weeks agoMinisters 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
1 month agoWoman 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
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoDoomscrolling, 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
3 months agoSpotify 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.
fromTheregister
7 months agoTrump 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
fromFuturism
11 months agoWhite 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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