Donald Trump expected to try to halt US TikTok ban, allies say ~society politics Article 1346 words 12 votes
Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service ~tech Article 428 words 30 votes
Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains” ~tech social media Article 508 words 32 votes
Dutch will spend $2.7 billion on improving infrastructure to keep ASML ~finance business Article 525 words, published Mar 28 2024 7 votes
Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. The Hungarian Presidency will collect “guidance for further work”. Take action to stop chat control now! ~society politics Article 895 words, published Jul 11 2024 11 votes
The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button ~tech Article 563 words 58 votes
Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission] ~society politics Link 11 votes
A tax break for Washington State data centers promised jobs. Now there are questions about whether the costs are worth it. ~society politics Article 3874 words 7 votes
Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax ~tech google Link 12 votes
Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum ~tech Link 30 votes
What to know about the proposed Kids Online Safety Act and its chances of passing in the US Congress ~society politics Article 1231 words 20 votes
Danish government makes new pact with youth organisations to protect children in the EU from the addictive design of social media and tech giants' business models ~society politics Article 316 words 8 votes
US House GOP leaders vow to block online privacy bill over intraparty pushback ~society politics Article 19 votes
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids ~tech social media Article 789 words 51 votes
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition ~tech internet Article 576 words, published May 24 2024 22 votes
UK becomes first country to outlaw easily guessable default passwords on connected devices ~society politics Article 391 words 37 votes
Net neutrality is back as US FCC votes to regulate internet providers ~tech internet Article 65 votes
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform ~tech social media Link 69 votes
US FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them ~tech internet Article 1236 words 82 votes
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice ~tech linux microsoft Article 592 words 56 votes
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms ~tech social media Article 1047 words 22 votes
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history. ~society politics Article 1097 words 7 votes
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats ~tech social media Article 24 votes
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate ~tech social media Article 795 words 45 votes
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology ~tech Article 26 votes
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware ~tech security.cyber PDF 38 votes
Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Pierre Poilievre ~society politics Link 36 votes
"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth." ~tech social media Article 3142 words 33 votes
Norwegian state-run telco Telenor announced plans to sell its satellite division to Space Norway, part of the country's space agency ~space satellites Article 433 words 6 votes
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned ~tech privacy Article 2483 words 34 votes
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence ~tech Article 1522 words 24 votes
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed ~tech social media Article 741 words 27 votes
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet ~tech internet.open browsers Article 924 words, published Jun 26 2023 49 votes
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration ~tech internet privacy Article 1935 words 45 votes
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron ~tech social media Article 894 words 12 votes
Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone app payments to competition ~tech apple google Article 193 words 8 votes
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants ~tech google Article 284 words 27 votes
Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence ~tech Article 396 words 3 votes
Brazilian supreme court Minister to take legal action against Telegram ~tech Article 346 words 3 votes
Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI ~tech Article 290 words 4 votes