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Technology secretary Peter Kyle has the task of making Britain a leading player in the AI revolution, but says economic growth will not come at the cost of online safety With the NHS still struggling, a prisons crisis still teetering and Britain’s borrowing costs soaring, there are few easy jobs going in Keir Starmer’s cabinet …

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From bashing Keir Starmer to promoting the AfD, the X owner is not shy about intervening A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself. …

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From stringent legislation to grassroots action, Australia and Spain lead the way in tackling children’s use of mobile phones and tablets If the advent of the affordable mobile phone has given parents a new way to stay in touch with their ­children, it has also prompted countless arguments about screen time, safety and social media. …

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In 2017, Silicon Valley rebuked Trump’s travel ban. Today, it has reversed course and is bending over backwards with displays of deference to Trump On 28 January 2017, I rushed to the San Francisco international airport (SFO). Like elsewhere in the US that night, demonstrations were growing against a travel ban Donald Trump had issued …

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Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives Following a week in which Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was getting rid of factchecking, as of Friday the company is also terminating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately. An internal memo from Meta acknowledged that …

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Online giant is among several companies ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs before Trump takes office Amazon.com is winding down diversity programs ahead of Republican Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency, amid growing conservative opposition to such initiatives. Some of biggest businesses in the US have been scaling back their diversity initiatives, years after …

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As factchecking attempts end, Meta’s platforms will become a wasteland of fake news and misinformation Mark Zuckerberg craves one metric more than any other: engagement, the statistic that tracks how long social media users spend scrolling, clicking, commenting, and viewing ads. More engagement, more profit. The Meta CEO will do almost anything to keep users …

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Shawna Kay Williams-Pinnock calls for lessons about harmful content and social media literacy, plus letters from Stuart Harrington and Cyndy Etler In the article (As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids’ mental health – and it’s terrifying, 3 January), Dr Emily Sehmer, a UK-based psychiatrist, expressed concerns about the deleterious …

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With brutishly fast zombies, raw action and most importantly an over-the-shoulder viewpoint, the influence of Capcom’s horror game can still be felt It is an interesting quirk of video game history that one of the greatest ever horror titles debuted on the Nintendo GameCube, a toylike console better known for the cutest titles in the …

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Justices hear arguments after app’s Chinese-based parent company ByteDance asked justices to review case Arguments have begun at the supreme court. First up is Noel Francisco, TikTok’s lawyer, who’s arguing that the US should halt the ban. He’s trying to convince the judges that the law passed by Congress last spring infringes on TikTok’s freedom …

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