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Reuters The U.S. and U.K. have announced a joint working group tasked with formulating ways to strengthen online safety for children. The first-of-its-kind trans-Atlantic government initiative will increase scrutiny of social media platforms and their impact on children. This comes as the U.K.’s Online Safety Act is nearing implementation by the year’s end. Under the […]

Reuters A report by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that Southeast Asian criminal networks are using the Telegram messaging app to conduct illicit activities on a massive scale. This includes the open trading of credit card details, passwords, browser histories, and other hacked data, as well as the sale of […]

Reuters Bentley Hensel, a software engineer running as an independent in the race for Virginia’s 8th congressional district, has created an AI chatbot to act as Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Don Beyer in an upcoming debate. Called DonBot, the AI was trained on Beyer’s official websites, press releases, and data from the Federal Election Commission […]

The FDA’s breakthrough tag is given to certain medical devices that provide treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening conditions. It is aimed at speeding up development and review of devices currently under development.

Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined 290 million euros ($324 million) in the Netherlands for sending the personal data of European taxi drivers to the U.S. in violation of E.U. rules, Dutch data protection watchdog DPA said on Monday.