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The Washington Post The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) was reintroduced in the U.S. Senate on May 14, now with the backing of Apple. Under KOSA, social media companies must take “reasonable” care to avoid product design features that put minors at risk of self-harm, substance abuse, or sexual exploitation; require the strongest privacy […]

The Washington Post Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle claims brought by the Texas attorney general that it broke state law by deceptively tracking user data. Meta paid Texas a similar amount to settle a lawsuit related to its use of facial recognition in July last year. Google’s agreement does not force it […]

The Washington Post A federal judge in California said Wednesday that Apple violated her legal order to offer users in the U.S. more options for making digital purchases from iPhone apps, referring the case to prosecutors for potential criminal investigation. The company was ordered in 2021 to stop requiring app developers to offer any digital […]

The Washington Post The bipartisan Take It Down Act is expected to be signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump after passing the U.S. Senate in February and the U.S. House on April 28. The legislation makes the publication of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated deepfake images of real people, a federal crime. […]

The Washington Post A draft circulated by the White House to several federal agencies on Monday suggests U.S. President Trump is considering an executive order that would create a policy integrating AI into K-12 schools. Under the draft executive order, federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI and […]

The Washington Post A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults identified jobs the public believes will be replaced by AI in the next 20 years. These include cashiers (73%), factory workers (67%), journalists (59%), and software engineers (48%). The findings also confirmed people’s anxiety about the technology is rising. About 51% of those polled […]

The Washington Post Consumer Reports researchers found that companies may not be complying with state laws allowing residents to opt out of letting websites sell or share their personal information. The researchers used software that made it look like they were in Colorado or California, where residents can use Web browsers to complete privacy opt-out […]

The Washington Post More than 25% of all computer programming jobs in the U.S. have disappeared in the past two years, with the occupation now ranking among the 10 hardest-hit of 420-plus jobs for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data. There are fewer programmers today in the U.S. than at any point […]

The Washington Post San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency said robotaxis operated by Alphabet’s Waymo racked up 589 tickets and $65,065 in fines for parking violations last year. The company’s autonomous vehicles were cited for such violations as obstructing traffic, disobeying street cleaning restrictions, and parking in prohibited areas. From “Waymo Driverless Taxis Got 589 Parking […]