Reporter subpoenas part of 'security' operation, Trump spy nominee says Reuters
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The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, privacy and security just to browse the internet. A.B. 1856, authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, will now move forward through the legislature without its most problematic pieces. EFF still believes the underlying law that A.B. 1856 amends, A.B. 1043, is unconstitutional. Signed into law in 2025 (and effective January of 2027), A.B. 1043 requires all operating systems and app stores to collect users’ ages, place…
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Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Nigeria launches $500 million farm fund to drive food security Reuters
UK Information Commission takes shape with non-executive board appointments; DSIT opens data-use consults IAPP
MEPs question Anthropic's EU standing, discuss digital sovereignty IAPP
Court of appeal rules Labour donor suffered ‘obvious injustice’ over use of his photo with headline referring to different man The green energy entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince is in line to receive damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail after claiming it used his picture to mislead millions of readers. Vince, who has given more than £5m to Labour over several years, took legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over an article, published in June 2023, headlined “Labour repays £100,000 to sex pest donor”. Continue reading...
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