How to be a wise optimist about science and technology?
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Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
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”
32 votes -
The attempt to reform Intel
8 votes -
Google loses €2.4bn EU antitrust case for favouring its own shopping service
33 votes -
The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
58 votes -
Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax
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
30 votes -
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
51 votes -
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
22 votes -
US official says Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating'
27 votes -
Net neutrality is back as Federal Communications Commission votes to regulate US internet providers
65 votes -
US Federal Communications Commission to vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them
82 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
56 votes -
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
22 votes -
America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
40 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
45 votes -
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
26 votes -
EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming
26 votes -
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware
38 votes -
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days
37 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."
33 votes -
India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
19 votes -
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence
24 votes -
EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook
34 votes -
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
27 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
49 votes -
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on.
81 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
Much of the innovation in natural language processing comes from the US, resulting in an English language bias – Finland decided to change the game with a collective approach
12 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron
12 votes -
Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone app payments to competition
8 votes -
Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready
16 votes -
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants
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
3 votes -
Brazilian supreme court Minister to take legal action against Telegram
3 votes -
The world's cleanest railway
4 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
4 votes -
Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
8 votes -
Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'
5 votes -
What is your earliest memory of the internet?
When did you first get on the internet? What do you remember of that time?
23 votes -
What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
6 votes -
US Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
11 votes -
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
18 votes -
Accessibility Week on The Verge
6 votes -
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
11 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes