Ofcom plans to expand the Online Safety Act in 2025.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Ofcom Online Safety Act 2025
The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025
Bloomberg · 2024-12-16 · #1
China restricted exports of gallium, a measure that preceded the recent price increase.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
China gallium
Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011, after China restricted exports
Bloomberg · 2024-12-16 · #17
Ofcom says the UK's Online Safety Act (passed in 2023) has taken effect, imposing obligations on platforms to address illegal material.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Ofcom Online Safety Act (2023)
The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025
Bloomberg · 2024-12-16 · #1
Rene Haas addresses relations with the Trump administration and China, and issues around IP licenses.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Rene Haas Trump administration China intellectual property licenses
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI's potential, working with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, the Trump admin, China and IP licenses, the CHIPS Act, OpenAI, and more
The Verge · 2024-12-16 · #10
A Senate labor committee staff report led by Bernie Sanders found that senior Amazon executives disregarded internal warnings about high worker injury rates due to concerns about Amazon's performance.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Senate labor committee senior Amazon executives internal warnings high worker injury rates Amazon performance concerns
US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concerns about Amazon's performance
New York Times · 2024-12-16 · #9
Commentators and policymakers are publicly calling for phone-free policies or bans in schools as a response to phone-fueled violence.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
commentators policymakers cell phones schools
How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos
New York Times · 2024-12-16 · #24
Rene Haas comments on the CHIPS Act.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Rene Haas
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI's potential, working with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, the Trump admin, China and IP licenses, the CHIPS Act, OpenAI, and more
The Verge · 2024-12-16 · #10
Reviver sells digital license plates that are legal to buy and use in some U.S. states.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Reviver digital license plates
A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver's digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands
Wired · 2024-12-16 · #4
Ofcom released the first guidelines for the Online Safety Act, requiring firms to remove illegal content or face fines.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-16
Ofcom Online Safety Act guidelines internet platforms
The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025
Bloomberg · 2024-12-16 · #1
The Trump transition team recommends scrapping an NHTSA rule that requires companies to report crashes involving autonomous-driving technology.
rumored 1 article 2024-12-15
Trump transition team NHTSA car-crash reporting requirement
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
Reuters · 2024-12-15 · #26
Researchers and commentators propose using synthetic data as a workaround to the public-data shortage for training models.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
AI researchers developers
AI companies, running out of conventional training datasets from the web, may be forced to shift from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models
Nature · 2024-12-15 · #24
The Trump transition team seeks to liberalize (relax) regulation of autonomous vehicles.
rumored 1 article 2024-12-15
Trump transition team autonomous vehicle regulation
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
Reuters · 2024-12-15 · #26
Cryptomus is registered in Vancouver.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
Cryptomus Vancouver
An investigation finds Cryptomus, registered in Vancouver, is a payment processor for dozens of Russian crypto exchanges and sites hawking cybercrime services
Krebs on Security · 2024-12-15 · #20
The rush of sports stars promoting crypto highlights a lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish legitimate investment opportunities from scams.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
Celebrity crypto promotions mechanisms to distinguish opportunities from scams
Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish opportunities from scams
The Guardian · 2024-12-15 · #9
An investigation finds Cryptomus acts as a payment processor for dozens of Russian crypto exchanges.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
Cryptomus dozens of Russian crypto exchanges
An investigation finds Cryptomus, registered in Vancouver, is a payment processor for dozens of Russian crypto exchanges and sites hawking cybercrime services
Krebs on Security · 2024-12-15 · #20
Reports indicate conventional training datasets drawn from public web text are being exhausted ('peak data'), constraining future LLM pre-training.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
conventional web training datasets internet text
AI companies, running out of conventional training datasets from the web, may be forced to shift from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models
Nature · 2024-12-15 · #24
Sports stars are promoting crypto coins and exchanges, endorsing tokens and trading platforms to the public.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
Sports stars crypto coins crypto exchanges
Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish opportunities from scams
The Guardian · 2024-12-15 · #9
Telegram says it removed 15.4 million groups and channels containing harmful content in 2024.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
Telegram
Telegram says it has removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, as its moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest
TechCrunch · 2024-12-15 · #3
Telegram's moderation page indicates increased enforcement since the arrest of founder Pavel Durov.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
Telegram Pavel Durov
Telegram says it has removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, as its moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest
TechCrunch · 2024-12-15 · #3
Sources say it would make no sense for Elon Musk to target OpenAI with onerous regulation.
rumored 1 article 2024-12-15
Elon Musk OpenAI
Sources say it makes no sense for Elon Musk to target OpenAI with onerous regulation as co-chair of DOGE, given his remit is to find ways to slash regulation
Financial Times · 2024-12-15 · #4
David Sacks has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-15
David Sacks AI companies tech startups
A profile of Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security
Financial Times · 2024-12-15 · #6
Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting requirement.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Trump transition team crash-reporting rule
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
Reuters · 2024-12-14 · #11
Trump's transition team seeks to liberalize (relax) autonomous vehicle regulation.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Trump transition team autonomous vehicle regulation
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
Reuters · 2024-12-14 · #11
Tesla and other automakers oppose the crash-reporting requirement.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Tesla other car makers crash-reporting rule
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
Reuters · 2024-12-14 · #11
Meta urges the California Attorney General to stop or block OpenAI's transition to a for‑profit entity.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Meta OpenAI California Attorney General
Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter”
Wall Street Journal · 2024-12-14 · #1
Meta states that Elon Musk is qualified to represent the interests of Californians in the matter concerning OpenAI's for‑profit transition.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Meta Elon Musk
Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter”
Wall Street Journal · 2024-12-14 · #1
Viam's office is located on Sesame Street.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Viam Sesame Street
How Viam, founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, helps companies make anything “smart”, including pizza buffets and bathroom lines
Wall Street Journal · 2024-12-14 · #9
Reported regulations would impose national quotas on GPU exports and establish a global licensing system for GPU shipments.
rumored 1 article 2024-12-14
United States national quotas on GPU exports global licensing system
Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them
Wall Street Journal · 2024-12-14 · #33
Sources report the US is preparing rules to restrict GPU sales to some Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern countries to limit China's ability to access them.
rumored 1 article 2024-12-14
United States GPUs countries in Southeast Asia countries in the Middle East China
Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them
Wall Street Journal · 2024-12-14 · #33
Vietnam and Indonesia view cheap imports from Chinese e-commerce platforms like Temu and Shein as a threat to their homegrown industries.
confirmed 1 article 2024-12-14
Vietnam Indonesia cheap imports homegrown industries Temu Shein
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries
Nikkei Asia · 2024-12-14 · #13