World
An AI teddy sold for three-year-olds said “I can’t help with killing you”, unprompted
The remark came while the toy was being asked how babies are made. MPs and peers want AI toys off the shelves before Black Friday, and even…
Tagged “Regulation”
World
The EU AI Act will reach Northern Ireland, but only where the AI is inside a physical product
The UK government has confirmed that parts of the EU AI Act will apply in Northern Ireland, through the Windsor Framework. The boundary is…
Technology
A coroner has named Meta and Snapchat in a boy’s inquest, and asked fifteen companies for data
The first inquest lasted 23 minutes. The High Court quashed its conclusion after evidence emerged about the role of social media.
Technology
Australia’s under-16 social media ban reaches the High Court, with Reddit among the challengers
Ten platforms must keep under-16s out or face fines of up to A$99m. Since the ban began last December, no company has been fined.
Technology
Two US senators have sent Sundar Pichai nine questions about what Google’s AI is doing to schoolchildren
The letter sets a deadline of 2 November. One question asks whether classroom AI has failed to spot signs of suicide or self-harm in a…
World
A coroner has written formally to ministers about the sextortion scam that contributed to an 18-year-old’s death
The scammers demanded money and threatened to send intimate images to his friends and to YouTube. They sent one to a Facebook friend to…
Bangladesh
Bitcoin, blockchain, hot wallet, stablecoin: the words in this week’s headlines, and what the law here says about them
A $6.3bn theft put a pile of jargon on every front page. Here is what each term actually means, and where Bangladeshi readers stand legally.
Bangladesh
“The system says no”: what to do when a machine decides you cannot have a loan
Automated creditworthiness scoring opens lending to people with no banking history. It also makes refusals hard to question, which is why…
World
Ofcom has named four ways to prove you are over 16 — and refused to make any of them compulsory
The regulator says being prescriptive is what failed elsewhere. It also concedes that some children will get round the checks whatever…
World
Researchers will ask 1,500 British teenagers what adults actually send them in direct messages — because nobody has asked the children before
Grooming evidence usually comes from cases that were reported. This asks the people it happens to, which is the gap that has made private…
World
Britain’s regulator wants Apple to open its contactless chip — and to charge much less for it
Nearly three in five Britons use a digital wallet, and Apple’s is the most popular. The watchdog says its fees and rules are blocking…
Bangladesh
Bangladesh ranks 56th in the world for grassroots crypto use — in a country where using it is illegal
The index measures what people do, not what the law allows — and it weights by GDP per head, which is why poorer countries rank high. The…