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The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […]
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The new Search Console social tracking hides AI click loss and turns your verified profiles into free training data for Google’s models.
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YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […]
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The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wednesday, as CNBC first reported. It said the plan aims to protect older […]
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X admits its broken algorithm made the site feel like a ‘battleground’ Read More »
Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows […]
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Australia’s online safety regulator has told the largest technology companies in the world that the tools to stop sexual extortion already exist, and that they are not using them. In a transparency report published on Tuesday, eSafety said companies including Apple, Meta, and Google have “significant gaps” in how they detect and prevent child sexual exploitation […]
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The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse Image, its most advanced image generator yet, and […]
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Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe Read More »
The European Union will propose limits on children’s access to social media, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, hours after an expert panel she convened delivered its recommendations on how the bloc should shield minors from harmful content. She has been building towards this since May, when she first told MEPs a […]
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