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March 14, 2025

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What could Apple’s legal challenge mean for data protection? | Technology

Apple will challenge a UK government demand to access encrypted customer data at a Royal Courts of Justice hearing in London on Friday. The appeal will be considered by the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates claims that the domestic intelligence services have acted unlawfully. What is the UK government asking Apple to do? The Home Office has issued a “technical capability notice” (TCN) under the Investigatory Powers Act, which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence. The notice focuses on Apple’s Advanced Data Protection service, which encrypts personal data uploaded and stored remotely in Apple’s cloud servers. The

March 14, 2025

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The Download: HIV prevention shots, and fixing a broken sex doll

—An anonymous US agency worker says they’re not impressed by a chatbot DOGE created in an attempt to automate work previously done by federal employees, Wired reports. The big story Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy May 2024 When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of energy that could cook a sun’s worth of popcorn shot out from somewhere amid a compact group of galaxies. Some 8 billion years later, radio waves from that burst reached Earth and were captured by a sophisticated low-frequency radio

March 14, 2025

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OpenAI’s strategic gambit: The Agents SDK and why it changes everything for enterprise AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI reshaped the enterprise AI landscape Tuesday with the release of its comprehensive agent-building platform – a package combining a revamped Responses API, powerful built-in tools and an open-source Agents SDK. While this announcement might have been overshadowed by other AI headlines — Google’s unveiling of the impressive open-source Gemma 3 model, and the emergence of Manus, a Chinese startup whose autonomous agent platform astonished observers — it is clearly a significant move for enterprises to be aware of. It consolidates

March 14, 2025

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Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. From the time Beulah Henry was a child in the late 19th century, she dreamed of ways to make life easier. That impulse would eventually drive her to secure dozens of patents and would earn her a nickname: Lady Edison. When she died in the early 1970s, she held far more patents than any other woman, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and in 2006 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of

March 14, 2025

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David Sacks sold $200 million in crypto holdings before taking WH job

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, sold over $200 million worth of digital asset-related investments personally and through his firm, Craft Ventures, before starting the job, according to a memo from the White House. Of the the assets sold, the documents said that at least $85 million “is directly attributable to Sacks.” The memo, from White House counsel David Warrington, added that Craft remains an

March 14, 2025

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Raspberry Pi Pico powers $75 PicoCalc portable programming handheld

Building a Raspberry Pi project from scratch is always a satisfying experience and one of the best ways to scratch that itch is to invest in an all-in-one kit. Today we’ve got a really cool one to share with you from ClockworkPi known as the PicoCalc kit. It uses our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico to drive a gorgeous calculator. This calculator offers much more than the ability to handle advanced mathematical calculations (but it does that really well). It supports the ability for you to code programs from the ground up using and range of languages such as

March 14, 2025

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Sources: an exec overseeing Siri told staff current delays were ugly, made worse by Apple publicly promoting new features, and it's unclear when they will ship (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: an exec overseeing Siri told staff current delays were ugly, made worse by Apple publicly promoting new features, and it’s unclear when they will ship  —  Apple Inc.’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing … Source link

March 14, 2025

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China Announces Generative AI Labeling To Cull Disinformation

China has introduced regulations requiring service providers to label AI-generated content, joining similar efforts by the European Union and United States to combat disinformation. The Cyberspace Administration of China and three other agencies announced Friday that AI-generated material must be labeled explicitly or via metadata, with implementation beginning September 1. “The Labeling Law will help users identify disinformation and hold service suppliers responsible for labeling their content,” the CAC said. App store operators must verify whether applications provide AI-generated content and review their labeling mechanisms. Platforms can still offer unlabeled AI content if they comply with relevant regulations and respond

March 14, 2025

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Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development

Google’s position on AI regulation: Trust us, bro If there was any doubt about Google’s commitment to move fast and break things, its new policy position should put that to rest. “For too long, AI policymaking has paid disproportionate attention to the risks,” the document says. Google urges the US to invest in AI not only with money but with business-friendly legislation. The company joins the growing chorus of AI firms calling for federal legislation that clarifies how they can operate. It points to the difficulty of complying with a “patchwork” of state-level laws that impose restrictions on AI development