Urgent need for terrorism AI laws, warns think tank

Apple stopping some Apple Watch sales Apple stopping some Apple Watch sales over patent dispute 03:38 Apple said it will halt sales of some of its Apple Watch products later this month because of a patent dispute over the devices’ blood oxygen monitor.  The technology giant said it is “preemptively taking steps to comply” should…

He’s tried using AI-detection tools, but has found them lacking. (A detector released by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, works only about 1 in 4 times.) He said unfamiliar turns of phrase in submissions from authors based outside the US whose first language isn’t English can sometimes trip up such tools. “There’s an inherent bias…

President Bukele is celebrating as his $120m Bitcoin reserve is finally in the black – but economists are not.

Listen to article (2 minutes) Parents have long been frustrated by internet platforms that treat teen accounts much the same as adult accounts. Data-collection laws protecting children under 13 don’t extend to older minors. Social media’s biggest operator is addressing this with a shift in content filtering. Meta Platforms plans to automatically restrict teen Instagram…

Much content that was previously banned will now be allowed, as long as it is appropriately labelled, including that which “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or the pelvic region”, body painting and what it dubs “erotic dances” that include people removing their clothes.

After more than a decade of uncontrolled experiments by internet platforms on millions of users, there is an emerging possibility that one group of users — kids — may gain some protection. A wave of court cases has an opportunity to fill a void left by the inaction of the executive and legislative branches of…