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Online Safety Act measures come into effect

Online harms regulator Ofcom can begin enforcing its Illegal Content codes under the Online Safety Act (OSA) after giving firms three months to prepare. Published 16 December 2024, Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Codes and guidance went into effect on 17 March 2025, meaning online service providers will now have to comply with its safety measures or face…

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Podcast: S4Capital’s Martin Sorrell on AI and the enterprise

Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…

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European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity

The European fintech and banking industry must not follow Trump’s US in cancelling workforce equality programmes and must instead continue to enforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to Wincie Wong, co-founder of Tech She Can. During a session on women in fintech at Finovate Europe last week, Wang reflected on the direction of travel…

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Apple’s M3 Ultra jaw-dropping performance revealed in early benchmark test

Apple’s most powerful chip ever is the M3 Ultra, which is currently exclusive to the 2025 Mac Studio. With up to an 80-core GPU, twice what’s available on the M4 Max, this chipset is a beast for graphics performance. However, how much better is it really than the M4 Max and the previous M2 Ultra?In…

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Latest WhatsApp beta introduces yet another useless AI feature

We already knew that Meta was planning to infuse more of its AI features into its apps—including WhatsApp. Well, it looks like Meta is finally starting to infuse more AI features into WhatsApp, and it’s starting with a pretty useless one.Obviously, opinions on AI in WhatsApp have been very mixed since the company announced its…

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DuckDuckGo just brought tons of popular AI chatbots to its private browser

Last year, DuckDuckGo introduced an AI chat feature that made ChatGPT queries private. Now, the company is expanding the AI capabilities of its browser to bring more “private, useful, and optional AI features” with popular chatbots.By accessing the free Duck.ai feature, users can get AI-assisted answers daily without needing an account. The company says that…

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Google using AI to determine the age of kids is useful but terrifying

Google announced twice in a matter of days that it’ll use machine learning (AI) to estimate a user’s age so it can restrict inappropriate content from children. That’s a great use of AI, as it could help companies like Google truly police content access so younger viewers can’t access content options that shouldn’t be available…

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AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of

Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…

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Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts

Youth activists have gathered outside Meta’s London offices to protest how the company allegedly exploits younger users for profit at the expense of their mental health, as part of a wider series of actions against the corporate and structural drivers of mental illness.   On 4 February 2025, around 20 youth activists with experience of…

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Ultra-thin foldable iPhone coming next year, and its main specs might have leaked

We’ve had leaks saying Apple was studying foldable iPhone technology for years, but something has changed in the past few months. An increasing number of reports claim that Apple has decided to manufacture a foldable iPhone, which would get a fall 2026 release date.We’re now seeing an uptick in foldable iPhone rumors, which signals that…

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