YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.
Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications
Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.
Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations
xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media”
Enter the Fediverse
Groups of AI agents spontaneously form their own social norms without human help
Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality?
Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights
Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system”
'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux
Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
Instead of punishing students for using AI, colleges and universities must provide clear, consistent guidelines and rules
How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.
CFPB withdraws proposed rule that would have prevented data brokers from selling or misusing consumers’ sensitive personal data
Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors
Lady Gaga bomb plot: Thwarted plan lifts veil on the gamification of hate and gendered nature of online radicalization
