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We continue to play Chinese tech whackamole across Europe and the US: Hikvision, Huawei, TikTok, DeepSeek, etc

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Apple pulls end-to-end encryption from UK users following the government's order under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. I have seen some bragging about how Meta launched threads here earlier than in the EU (etc) due to our less rigourous regulatory environment. Here's the other side of the coin

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If someone told me this was a failed VR project from 2006, I'd believe them. Especially the "failed" part.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Worst thing about Bluesky vs X is the lack of music. Two gigs in two nights and not only don't the artists have profiles, their names barely appear in the search results. Data protection is but one of my many interests, the rest of which I rarely discuss on socials. We've got a long way to go.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Oh my god this is embarrassing.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Is tech news just "news" now or am I in a bubble? Thank you to these outlets for doing the deep work necessary

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Writing about the state privacy laws that take/took effect JUST THIS YEAR I realised there's really no need for a federal US privacy law. Don't worry about it.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Should really be a ✖️ on that third point...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Delaware District Court says AI training is not "fair use".

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm fascinated by this story about the UK government demanding access to Apple e2ee iCloud accounts. This was reportedly a warrant under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. Neither the content nor the *existence* of such warrants can be made public. I wonder how many such warrants go unreported.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Interim US Attorney for DC threatens—via a letter published exclusively on X—to "chase" people referred to him by Elon Musk "to the end of the Earth" if they have "simply acted unethically"—and not even illegally. Whether careless phrasing or not, this is flagrant contempt for the rule of law.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Generating CSAM is apparently a "common legitimate practice" according to the Commission If it is indeed legitimate in some contexts, I still think it's a stretch to call it "common". It is also a crime in some countries, and I can't see that the AI Act makes it lawful.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Tech firms honestly expect governments to treat AI development like the Manhattan Project—ploughing in public money, pulling up drawbridges and protecting their trade secrets for them. It appears to be working. darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment