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Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill

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Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from social media, and overhaul telecom regulations. The country holding the presidency is supposed to act as […]

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Leaked licences show Bulgaria greenlit surveillance exports to governments accused of repression

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Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries with documented records of suppressing dissent. The licences, published by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, cover exports by Circles BG to government buyers in Azerbaijan, Serbia, Malaysia, Mexico, the UAE, and at least […]

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Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting it

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Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A at a valuation of at least $500 million. The company expects to close the round in the third quarter. CEO and founder Simone Giacomelli said the pitch is […]

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Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required

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One of the largest open-source package repositories just spent a weekend cleaning up after a malware campaign that did not break into anything. It did not need to. Attackers seized control of more than 1,500 packages in the Arch User Repository, or AUR, the community-run software collection that sits alongside Arch Linux’s official repositories, and […]

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Commodore’s comeback flip phone runs your apps but bans the doomscroll

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Commodore, the computer brand that defined the 1980s, is back with a flip phone, and its main selling point is everything it will not let you do. The Callback 8020, announced on Tuesday, is a clamshell that runs modern apps but blocks web browsers and social media outright. Pre-orders open on 30 June, prices start […]

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Roblox exec says ticking a box for age verification is ‘not enough anymore’

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Roblox’s vice president of safety product policy, Eliza Jacobs, told NBC News that Roblox is “optimistic” that its new facial age estimation tech will “continue to get better,” saying, “Ticking a box to say you’re 13 or older, it’s not enough anymore.” NBC invited a group of kids to try out Roblox’s new video selfie […]

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Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a Pentagon contractor, WIRED reports

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The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra found a leaked, still-active licence tying Meta to a vendor that draws roughly 80 per cent of its revenue from government […]

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OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO

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A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertising, user engagement and retention, consumer and health data, its treatment of minors and seniors, deep-learning models, and internal […]

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Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

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Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on. CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says the point is not the percentage but the choice. “Our community was pretty vocal, especially during the CEO announcement, that […]

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The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.

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A UK under-16 social media ban, for years a fringe idea, is now days from becoming government policy. Ministers are expected to outline the plan to Parliament on Monday, ahead of the 18 June Makerfield by-election, according to POLITICO, which cited people familiar with discussions inside the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and No. […]

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