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Upgrade your cars entertainment system for just $75

Mashable Tech

TL;DR : Bring your old car's entertainment system into 2025 with the PlayAIBox Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Wireless Adapter , now $74.97 (reg. Is your car's entertainment system ready? Just make sure you're always adhering to local laws regarding video playback.) 129) through April 27.

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

Engadget

"Time and again, research shows that algorithmic systems for predicting crime are inherently flawed," Statewatch researcher Sofia Lyall said. This latest model, which uses data from our institutionally racist police and Home Office, will reinforce and magnify the structural discrimination underpinning the criminal legal system."

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DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world

Ars Technica

If today's AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn't work against human interests. Unfortunately, we don't have anything as elegant as Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and capabilities.

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South Korea passes law forcing Google and Apple to open their app stores to alternate payment systems

TechSpot

What has been dubbed the "Anti-Google Law" in South Korea was originally passed in that country's parliament last week, but the final vote went through yesterday. The bill will become law when signed by South Korea's president, whose party has already backed it.

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US officials confirm Chinese hackers had access to law enforcement wiretap systems for months

TechSpot

The threat actors compromised wiretap systems used for law enforcement surveillance. On Wednesday, the US government confirmed that Chinese hackers breached several US telecommunications service providers.

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Minnesota passes landmark right-to-repair law for electronic devices

TechSpot

The Minnesota law is part of an omnibus appropriations bill (SF 2774) that goes into effect on July 1, 2024, and contains a "digital fair repair" clause that covers most consumer electronics, except video game consoles, motor vehicles, medical devices, cybersecurity tools, residential energy storage systems, and farm and construction.

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Apple forced to add iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to comply with French law

The Verge

Apple has added iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to its online store in France to comply with a new French law that came into effect this year. The repairability scores are required by a new French law which came into effect on January 1st with new anti-waste legislation. It’s not a perfect system. Screenshot: Apple.com.

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