The evidence from Australia is clear, says Dr Reuben Kirkham, Director of the Free Speech Union of Australia: Sir Keir Starmer's social media 'ban' is doomed to fail. And it targets the wrong things anyway.

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Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.

Elon Musk’s trillionaire milestone raises a bigger AI question: Will the future belong to the best models or the companies that own the infrastructure behind them?

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto fans and suggestions for collage templates.

Instead of "just links," it gives users AI-generated results that pull from publicly-posted content across Meta's platforms, like the AI search feature in its new Reddit-like Forum app. Users can also ask Meta's AI follow-up questions in response to the search …

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For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them.

But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an ent …

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The ban is set to begin early 2027.

A Airbus apresentou em Berlim a nova frota de aeronaves não tripuladas. O destaque coube ao U145, uma versão autónoma e sem tripulação do popular helicóptero H145, concebido para missões civis e militares de transporte de carga. O primeiro voo está previsto ainda para 2026.

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Britain said it would ban social media access for children under 16 starting in 2027, joining several other countries introducing similar measures.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government planned to bar children under 16 from social media, following similar efforts in Australia and elsewhere.

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

The UK is following Australia by banning young people under 16 from TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms.

The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced. The ban, which could take effect from early next year, will be joined by wider measures that will also prevent children from talking to strangers in online games, livestreaming, or using sexual or romantic chatbots.

"Do we truly believe that social media creates a happy environment for our children? Do we truly believe that it's a place where they can feel safe?" Starmer asked during a press conference announcing the policy. "I don't think I even need to answer those questions, do I?"

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The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

Sir Keir Starmer is set to ban under-16s from 10 major social media platforms, including X, but not Bluesky, the Left-wing app.

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A U.F.C. fight on President Trump’s birthday will now double as a capstone for Paramount’s successful effort to secure Justice Department approval for a mega media merger.

O modelo mais rápido e potente da história da Mercedes-AMG é totalmente elétrico. Recorre pela primeira vez a motores de fluxo axial diretamente inspirados na Fórmula 1, carrega 460 km de autonomia em apenas 10 minutos e já pode ser encomendado em Portugal, a partir de 160.500 euros.

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Gazans are preparing for public protests against Hamas on June 26th in what is being touted as a grassroots "revolution" against the terror group.

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 132, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy soccer, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I've been preparing for a month of getting absolutely nothing done during the World Cup. I've also been reading about Steven Spielberg and wearables and the Boeing 747, overloading on computer nostalgia thanks to The Virtual OS Museum, watching that Knicks game winner over and over and over, listening to the fabulous new This Was SportsCenter podcast and the fabulous old The Renner Files podcast, and trying to tame my …

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Com apenas 200 kg, uma nova bateria desenvolvida internamente, aerodinâmica revista e eletrónica reforçada, o novo protótipo FST15 da equipa de Fórmula Student do IST foi apresentado esta semana e prepara-se para competir em Portugal, Espanha e Alemanha.

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Just who does Financial Times journalist Pilita Clark think she is, encouraging parents to ensure their children are sufficiently alarmed about the climate, asks Tilak Doshi. How far the pink paper has fallen.

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