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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Senior retailers and technology providers from around the world converged on New York City for Retail’s Big Show, organised by the National Retail Federation (NRF), where they gained insights into the latest solutions affecting the sector. This year’s event attracted around 40,000 people from 105 countries representing 6,200 brands who heard about a variety of…
Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…
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In October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Digital fairness fitness check report as part of a continued effort to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) legislation with consumer protection laws. Specifically, it evaluated the efficacy of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. The…
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Existing artificial intelligence (AI) models available in the public domain fail to provide “complexities and nuances of the past”, and merely offer oversimplified stories about the Holocaust, according to an international Holocaust research lab.In November 2024, the University of Sussex launched the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, an initiative to “ensure a sustainable future for Holocaust…
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Video-sharing platform TikTok will “go dark” in the US at midnight on Sunday 19 January, after the Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform on national security and data privacy and protection grounds. In a unanimous decision, the conservative-majority court sided with the lower courts, outgoing president Joe Biden, and…
Recent research from Schneider Electric warns that datacentre electricity demand could more than double between now and 2026, reaching over 1,000 terawatt-hours. This surge in power demand comes at a particularly challenging time, as the last Dutch provinces with available grid capacity – South Holland and North Holland – have now declared they have no…
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The Department of Justice has issued a call for evidence as it examines the role of computer evidence in the criminal justice system to prevent another Post Office scandal. Computer evidence was used to wrongly convict hundreds of former subpostmasters and their staff, based on evidence from the error-prone Horizon computer system from Fujitsu used…
With the 19 January 2025 ban on TikTok just days away, American social media users and businesses are facing up to the fact that the video-sharing platform may go dark across the US at the weekend, with some now considering other alternatives at the last minute. On Friday 10 January, a last-ditch attempt by TikTok…
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AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs were listed as in stock by a Danish retailerPurported photos were also provided from a retailer in IsraelRelease date rumors are pointing strongly towards something happening either on January 23 or 24AMD’s RX 9070 graphics cards are already in the hands of retailers, if the latest gossip on the RDNA 4…
