2025-05-08
Wikipedia's owner challenges categorization rules under UK's Online Safety Act
The Wikimedia Foundation, hosts of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is challenging an aspect of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The law aims to protect users from harmful online [...]
2025-05-08
Ireland is pitching a law to force big tech companies to vet ads before publication
Ireland has pitched a law to force tech companies to vet ads before publishing them, according to reporting by Financial Times. This is part of a larger push by the EU Commission to make tech entities [...]
2025-05-07
New TNW Backstage podcast explores privacy tensions and Meta’s model
Have you heard of the privacy paradox? It’s the contradiction between our claims to care about privacy — and our refusal to protect it. The paradox came to mind while working on the debut episode [...]
2025-05-07
LinkedIn wants you to tell its AI about your dream job
LinkedIn is still on a mission to persuade job hunters to apply for fewer roles. But the company is rolling out a new set of AI-powered upgrades to its job-searching features it hopes will make that p [...]
2025-05-07
Listen to the ‘world’s first’ song made by a quantum computer and AI
The beat just dropped on a new era of music, and it’s coming not from a recording studio but from the weird and wonderful realm of quantum physics. UK-based tech startup Moth has released the track [...]
2025-05-07
Meta is reportedly working on facial recognition for its AI glasses
Diminished tech privacy appears to be another ripple effect from Trump 2.0. The Information reported on Wednesday that Meta has changed its tune on facial recognition. After considering but ultimately [...]
2025-05-07
Exclusive: Eyeo exits stealth to give cameras human-like colour vision
Dutch startup Eyeo has emerged from stealth with €15mn in funding to advance a breakthrough photonics technology for cameras that could radically disrupt the way we take images. Eyeo spun out last y [...]