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British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Microsoft's AI assistant hallucinated a soccer match.

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Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China

tomshardware - Chinese customs officers were allegedly told to disallow the entry of Nvidia H200 chips, effectively banning the entry of these AI processors into the country. The command comes as other sources say that Beijing will only allow the import of these AI GPUs…

#ai #semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #nvidia #gpu #government #supplychain #regulation

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Washington Opens the Door on Nvidia Chips. Beijing Starts Closing It.

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Washington spent years blocking Nvidia's advanced chips from China. Tuesday, the Trump administration approved H200 exports with a 25% government cut. By afternoon, Beijing told its own companies to hold off.

#ai #semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #nvidia #gpu #stockmarket #supplychain #us

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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 10:21 pm / permalink 17851 / 12 stories in 7 wks


FCC Ends Verizon's 60-Day Automatic Unlocking Requirement

iclarified - The Federal Communications Commission has officially waived a long-standing requirement that forced Verizon to automatically unlock mobile devices 60 days after activation. The ruling, released late yesterday, fundamentally alters the landscape for Verizo…

#mobiletech #techpolicy #government #business #us #wireless #law #telecommunications #smartphone #fcc

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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 17842 / 10 stories in 7 wks


Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - The Senate has passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE ) Act with unanimous consent, according to the bill’s co-sponsor Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). The bill lets the subjects of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfak…

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #politics #cybercrime #us #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 17841 / 11 stories in 7 wks


Microsoft Vows to Pay Full Cost of AI Data Centers After White House Pressure

James Maguire / techstrong - Microsoft has moved to blunt growing public opposition to its expanding data-center footprint, pledging to absorb the full cost of the electricity, water use, and local taxes associated with its AI infrastructure. The commitments mark the company’s most s…


Enhancing local sustainability with water, jobs, and more

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Safeguarding community electric bills amid AI expansion

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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 17831 / 22 stories in 7 wks


Senate unveils updated market structure bill limiting stablecoin rewards on idle holdings

Timmy Shen and Sarah Wynn / theblock - The bill seeks to bar digital asset providers from paying interest just for holding a stablecoin, but would allow activity-based rewards.

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #techpolicy #decentralisation #banking #politics #government #finance #law

Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 5:21 am / permalink 17822 / 11 stories in 7 wks


Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

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#ai #techpolicy #digitalhealth #google #aiethics #genai #health #alphabet #contentmoderation #safety

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Back to Top / Monday, January 12, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 17810 / 4 stories in 7 wks


550,000 accounts gone: Meta’s first report on Australia’s social media ban

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms Inc. has deactivated nearly 550,000 accounts in Australia to comply with the nation’s new social media ban for users under 16, the company announced on Medium. This action includes 330,000 Instagram accounts, 173,000 Facebook accounts, and …

#techpolicy #meta #australia #law #facebook #contentmoderation #instagram #safety #regulation

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Back to Top / Monday, January 12, 2026, 9:20 am / permalink 17777 / 5 stories in 7 wks


Ofcom investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

bbc - The watchdog said it had received reports of the platform's Grok AI chatbot creating undressed images of people.


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Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Simon Sharwood / theregister - Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’ Cloudflare’s CEO has threatened to pull the company out of Italy, and to withdraw free services it intends to provide to the Winter Olympic games…

#cloud #techpolicy #cloudsec #government #business #internet #europe #law #telecommunications #cloudflare

Back to Top / Monday, January 12, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 17771 / 4 stories in 7 wks


Apple and Samsung Oppose India’s Smartphone Source Code-Sharing Rule

PYMNTS / pymnts - India wants smartphone makers to share their source code with its government. That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 11) by Reuters, which said that the government also wants these companies to make several software changes to comply with new security …

#techpolicy #apple #samsung #android #government #ios #india #smartphone #tradesecrets #digitalprivacy

Back to Top / Monday, January 12, 2026, 12:20 am / permalink 17764 / 5 stories in 7 wks


AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them

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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Terrence O’Brien / theverge - Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According…

#ai #techpolicy #digitalhealth #google #aiethics #genai #health #alphabet #contentmoderation

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Back to Top / Sunday, January 11, 2026, 3:20 pm / permalink 17755 / 9 stories in 7 wks


SpaceX Just Received Approval For 15,000 “Next-Gen Satellites”

Rohail Saleem / wccftech - In a notable development that would significantly expand its constellation of satellites, SpaceX has just received approval from the FCC to operate up to 15,000 next-gen satellites Brendan Carr: "The FCC authorization is a game-changer for enabling next-g…

#techpolicy #space #aerospace #technology #telecommunications #elonmusk #fcc #satellite #starlink

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Back to Top / Saturday, January 10, 2026, 3:20 pm / permalink 17742 / 12 stories in 7 wks


Elon Musk Says X to Make Its Algorithm Open Source in Seven Days

Vincent Lee / bloomberg - Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.

#software #opensource #techpolicy #aiethics #media #censorship #contentmoderation #elonmusk #algorithm

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Back to Top / Saturday, January 10, 2026, 3:20 pm / permalink 17741 / 9 stories in 7 wks


Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #asia #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #grokai #digitalprivacy

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UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

Connor Jones / theregister - Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation ANALYSIS From May's cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #infosec #government #governance #uk #internet #law #digitalprivacy

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Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy's communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking 14.2 million-euro fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued tha…

#techpolicy #government #internet #europe #law #censorship #contentmoderation #cloudflare #regulation #copyright

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The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

Rebecca Heilweil / fastcompany - Grok’s digital undressing scandal is horrifying. In recent days, countless women, including the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, have found AI-generated and nonconsensual sexual images of themselves propagating across the web. According to one analy…


Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry


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Oracle and OpenAI scrap Texas data-center expansion; Meta eyes the spare capacity

Oracle and OpenAI have abandoned plans to expand a flagship Texas data center, leaving substantial compute capacity up for grabs. Nvidia reportedly brokered interest from Meta to take the unused slots as OpenAI downscales that particular buildout, a move that rattled markets and highlights shifting demand for large-scale on-prem AI infrastructure. More...


OpenAI launches Codex Security agent to automatically detect software vulnerabilities

OpenAI rolled out Codex Security, an AI agent that scans codebases to find complex vulnerabilities, suggests actionable fixes, and uses sandbox testing to limit false positives. The tool has already flagged issues in major projects and aims to compete with traditional application security tooling by automating deep, contextual code review. More...


Google releases Workspace CLI enabling AI agents to access Gmail, Drive, Calendar

Google has shipped an open-source Workspace CLI that gives AI agents like OpenClaw programmatic access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar and other Workspace services via a built-in MCP server. The tool standardizes agent integration, making it easier — and slightly creepier — for automated assistants to act on users’ behalf across core productivity apps. More...


CISA, Google and US agencies flag Coruna iOS exploit kit in active use

U.S. agencies and security teams have raised alarms about “Coruna,” a powerful iOS exploit kit tied to spyware and crypto-theft campaigns. Google’s threat unit traced the toolkit’s activity while CISA ordered federal mitigations for the targeted iOS flaws, urging rapid patching as investigators hunt for origins and victims. More...


U.S.-Iran strikes roil markets and satellite imagery firms amid fresh attacks

A recent round of retaliatory strikes between the U.S. and Iran has immediate spillovers: defense analytics firm shares jumped on expected demand, major chipmaker stock fell amid geopolitical jitters, and a commercial satellite imagery provider paused public image distribution to prevent adversarial use for battle-damage assessment. Markets and imagery services scrambled for damage control. More...



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