Spain suspends Telegram ban to investigate impact on users
Spain’s High Court has suspended its own order that was set to block messaging app Telegram’s services in the country. Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an order on Friday calling for…
Spain’s High Court has suspended its own order that was set to block messaging app Telegram’s services in the country. Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an order on Friday calling for…
Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni is seeking €100,000 in damages after deepfake pornographic videos of her were shared online. Meloni is seeking compensation from a 40-year-old and his father over…
In 2020, amid a rapidly evolving global data landscape, TikTok, a brand deeply rooted in Chinese technology and known for its extensive collection of user data, found itself at a…
An AI tool that creates digital twins of patients can predict our future health, according to a new study. Named Foresight, the tool uses generative pre-trained transformers, the same family…
Google has been slapped with a €250mn fine for breaching EU intellectual property rules in how it deals with media publishers, including scraping news articles to train its AI models…
Direct air capture (DAC) features prominently in the climate plans of many world governments, and has drawn billions of dollars in private investment. And yet, as the costs of the…
TikTok’s rough week in the west went from bad to worse today when Italian authorities slapped the app with a €10mn fine over a viral challenge called the “French scar.”…
The EU has officially adopted the AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive rulebook on artificial intelligence. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) overwhelmingly endorsed the regulation on Wednesday. The law…
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released declassified footage of its DragonFire laser weapon. DragonFire shoots a high-power beam at the speed of light. It’s so precise, it can…
It’s hard to imagine more intimate data than that collected by female technologies or “femtech.” These apps and devices not only monitor women’s menstrual cycles but also record their sexual…
It happened, after years of chin-wagging and back-and-forth and bad blood, it finally happened: the compliance date for the Digital Markets Act arrived on March 7th. From here on out,…
The EU’s strictest-ever crackdown on big tech has only just begun, but critics fear it’s already missing the targets. Called the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the landmark law aims to…