Month: November 2022

Unannounced change in rules was made last week as health experts stress importance of combating disinformation Twitter will no longer enforce its policy against Covid-19 misinformation, raising concerns among public health experts that the change could have serious consequences if it discourages vaccination and other efforts to combat the still-spreading virus. Eagle-eyed users spotted the …

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Ministers drop ‘harmful communications’ offence with some arguing it was ‘legislating for hurt feelings’ The online safety bill is returning to parliament under the aegis of its fourth prime minister and seventh secretary of state since it was first proposed as an online harms white paper under Theresa May. Each of those has been determined …

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Michelle Donelan rejects claim by father of Molly Russell that online safety bill has been watered down UK politics live – latest news updates The UK culture secretary, Michelle Donelan, has defended removing a provision in the online safety bill to regulate “legal but harmful” online material, after the father of teenager Molly Russell said …

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An exciting multiplayer Discord game asks you to find things in the multiverse through an AI image generator. The hallucinatory results could mark a new frontier for AI art Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration is an unusual workplace. Maude Fletcher’s alright, …

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Exclusive: a study shows the company has a long way to go in upholding its pledge to protect users In the wake of the US supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, Google pledged fresh policies to protect people’s abortion-related data. But new research has shown the way our location and other personal data is …

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Lastminute.com co-founder, now a peer, says little progress has been made in recent decades The businesswoman and peer Martha Lane Fox has criticised the lack of gender diversity in the UK technology industry, saying it has not progressed in 25 years. Lady Lane-Fox of Soho shot to prominence in the late 1990s as the co-founder …

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US owners say they’ve been on the receiving end of road rage, but it may be more about EVs than the CEO himself Tesla lost at least one customer this weekend, after Alyssa Milano tweeted that she had returned her model for a Volkswagen electric vehicle, prompting jokes from Elon Musk and conservative commentators about …

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Experts say investing in identity theft protection may provide peace of mind, but won’t help recover lost information Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The recent Optus and Medibank data breaches in which thousands of Australians had their personal information stolen have heightened public consciousness of the threat …

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Revised online safety bill proposes fines of 10% of revenue but drops harmful communications offence Social media platforms that breach pledges to block sexist and racist content face the threat of substantial fines under government changes to the online safety bill announced on Monday Under the new approach, social media sites such as Facebook and …

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Twitter owner says Apple gave no reason for the potential ban and had stopped advertising on the platform Elon Musk has accused Apple of threatening to remove Twitter from its App Store without giving a reason to the social media platform. Twitter’s new owner also said the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on Twitter, prompting …

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