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UK is going full Minority Report with ‘murder prediction’ research

Engadget

Law enforcement has long had a questionable relationship with AI tools. From AI being used to create police reports (bad idea) to misusing programs like ShotSpotter (another bad idea) to adopting tech that poses privacy threats to citizens (also a bad idea), history is not on the side of these being well-implemented technologies.

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Australia passes law requiring Facebook and Google to pay for news content

The Verge

The Australian government has passed a new law requiring Google and Facebook to negotiate with news outlets to pay for their content or face arbitration. This is a significant milestone,” said Josh Frydenberg, the Liberal party’s deputy leader who spearheaded the new law. The law has the support of Microsoft.

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New Jersey AG sues Discord over alleged child safety failures

Engadget

Back in 2024, California lawmakers proposed the idea of blocking children's access to algorithmic social feeds , and just this year Utah passed an age verification law for app stores , a decidedly blunt way to try and guarantee child safety. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work

Futurism

Thereare some caveats to that study, like that it hinges on self-reported data from participants about their perceived effort as an indicator of critical thinking, but the idea of cognitive offloading is n't a huge stretch. Goel argues that the "future isn't about where we use AI it's about how we use it." We're going to pay for this later."

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Netflix faces trademark suit over basketball team name and branding in ‘Running Point’

Fast Company Tech

I am no fan of these types of lawsuits because I dont think consumers will be confused in a way that damages Pepperdine, Kevin Greene, a law professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles who specializes in entertainment and intellectual property law, tells Fast Company.

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Why Vulnerable Kids Depend on Government & Big Tech Getting Data Privacy Laws Right

Saleforce Nonprofit

The idea that child safety is opposed to user privacy is far from the truth — user privacy has co-existed with CSEM detection technology like PhotoDNA for the last decade, as tech companies and other agencies have identified and removed known child sexual abuse imagery without compromising the privacy of non-contraband materials.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Ambassador to the United Nations Douglas Rutzen President & CEO International Center for Not-for-Profit Law Rutzen has quietly put out political fires in back rooms around the world. Cook, Ph.D.