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The Office of Legislative Counsel, the nonpartisan office that turns lawmakers' policy ideas into formal bill language, is being flooded with AI-generated draft legislation. Many of these submissions contain significant errors that staff must then work through.
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A member of parliament has raised concerns about the Egyptian government collecting facial recognition data from residents. The nature and scale of the program, and the context prompting the MP's statement, were not detailed in available reporting.
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The Hayden City Council is advancing toward a formal vote on an AI policy, signaling that local governments in smaller cities are beginning to set official rules around artificial intelligence use.
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Emerging from the chaos of supplying the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, the War Department sought to foster domestic production of standardized muskets. Out of this industrial project arose an invention that laid the foundation for automation and mass production. Thomas Blanchard’s copying lathe was a product of a fluid interchange between public and private interests, expertise, and capital. Born into the mechanical milieu of the nineteenth-century Connecticut River Valley, Blanchard embodied the period’s spirit of ingenuity. His creation enabled complex, irregular three-dimensional wood…
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An emerging privacy concern centers on the data people voluntarily hand over when using AI tools, with users effectively consenting to collection practices they may not fully understand.
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A report or analysis identifies gaps in how data teams are handling governance requirements under the EU AI Act, pointing to areas where current practices fall short of what the regulation demands.
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A Guardian opinion piece, illustrated by First Dog on the Moon, takes a satirical look at the push to deploy facial recognition technology widely in retail settings as a response to shoplifting concerns.
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Binance gave Russia client details used to charge Russian over Ukraine donations, documents show The Straits Times
EXCLUSIVE: Binance gave Moscow client details used to charge Russian over Ukraine donations, documents show Reuters
Sainsbury's staff removed an innocent shopper from one of its stores after a facial recognition system incorrectly flagged them as a person of concern, marking at least a second known incident of this kind at the UK supermarket chain.
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A Guardian investigation found an apparent gap between Microsoft's public claims about its AI computing capacity and the actual number of advanced chips it has running. The discrepancy suggests the company's AI infrastructure may not match its stated ambitions.
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A report used to support Australia's teenage social media ban appears to include citations to academic articles that do not exist, according to a Guardian analysis aired in Senate hearings. The report's authors acknowledge using ChatGPT in editing but deny the citation errors stem from AI hallucinations.
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Major supermarket chains in Australia are reported to be looking into using facial recognition technology in their stores. No specific implementation details or timelines have been disclosed.
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Amazon's facial recognition tool Rekognition is under legal scrutiny in a lawsuit involving a false arrest. The case appears to center on whether an incorrect match by the system led to someone being wrongly detained.
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Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data. [...]
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Moroccan security forces arrest nearly 300 migrants trying to reach Spain’s Ceuta AP News
Australia's two largest supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, are trialing facial recognition technology in their stores, citing an increase in retail crime as the driver.
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A point/counterpoint piece in the Duluth News Tribune takes up the debate over how heavily governments should regulate AI, with at least one position arguing against broad regulatory intervention.
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Australia's corporate regulator has warned of a sharp rise in deepfake scams using the likeness of public figures, particularly Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, to promote fraudulent investment schemes. The scams have cost Australians at least $7.4 million.
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A federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit against background check company TABB Inc., ruling that the plaintiff could not demonstrate a concrete injury sufficient to establish standing in federal court. The case stemmed from a data leak first reported in 2024.
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Congress is considering an overhaul of longstanding federal financial privacy law. The legislation under review governs how financial institutions handle and share customer data, a framework that has largely remained intact for decades.
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A new AI-powered film studio called Promise has set up near Sony Pictures' Culver City lot, using AI tools to generate backgrounds and other production elements. Some filmmakers see the technology as a way to produce work independently, bypassing the major studios that have traditionally controlled film production.
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Wynd Kaufman, a 69-year-old activist with the group StopAI, has been jailed after being convicted for chaining shut the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters during a protest. She is believed to be the first person imprisoned specifically for protesting against artificial intelligence.
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Student protests over exam integrity have spread across multiple countries this year, with incidents including mass exam resits in Mexico following suspected cheating affecting nearly 60,000 applicants, and a failed digital marking rollout in Portugal that triggered a serious education crisis.
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