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A TechRadar article by Studocu’s COO warns that AI sovereignty debates and regulation could cut students off from the AI study tools they rely on.
Flock is cutting about 270 jobs, or 18% of its workforce, through a voluntary separation program as the surveillance company faces growing privacy and civil liberties backlash.
Paris court rejects Canal+ fines against Cloudflare over 1.1.1.1 piracy blocking, leaving its DNS resolver untouched.
East Fishkill, New York, once home to a major IBM chipmaking campus, has imposed a three-year moratorium on large data centers after residents opposed a proposed 1-gigawatt AI facility by Treetop Companies. The developer has appealed the ban.
Kalshi traders now see a 75% chance that more than 5,100 U.S. data centers will be planned or operating before 2027.
MIT Tech Review’s Oct. 9 newsletter covers AI refusal failures, GLP-1 side effects, and Envision’s renewable data centers.
Rob Biddulph tells TechRadar AI art is soulless, displaces human creators and should require opt-in licensing.
A TechRadar review of 14 financial-services websites in Europe and the US found tracking scripts in account-opening, mortgage, and loan flows sent contact details, financial intent, and device fingerprints to third parties, with nine sites doing so without valid consent.
TechRadar published an interview with Proton founder Andy Yen on age verification, Big Tech, AI and digital privacy. The headline quotes Yen saying nine out of ten people prefer Proton’s version of the internet over Google’s.
Lei Feng Net has published the fifth, sixth and seventh layers of the Carbon-Silicon Daotong Cross-domain Migration Governance Code, covering meta-regulation, civilization-level risk control and final self-audit.
South Korean police added 15 personnel to a team probing recent hacking attacks on several financial institutions.
Prime Minister Han Seong-sook pledged to uphold Hangeul's value in the AI era, announcing plans to expand Korean-language corpora for AI training and overseas King Sejong Institutes by 2030. The National Hangeul Museum is set to reopen in 2028 after a fire.
Anthropic's annual usage policy update adds a ban on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its AI models, while tightening election rules ahead of the midterms, Engadget reported.
California regulator tells robot-fighting startup Rek it cannot hold human boxing or MMA matches without approval.
Black suicide rates have risen more than 50% in about a decade, with youth deaths climbing fastest, CDC data cited by NPR show.
OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, below a widely reported $68 billion figure, sending Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave shares lower. USA Today sued OpenAI over training data, mathematicians questioned its latest proofs, and Arena raised at a $3.1 billion valuation.
Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, banning sustained abuse of Claude and codifying restrictions on election interference, weapons software and surveillance.
Germany's transport ministry is pushing to legalize Tesla's Full Self-Driving while calling the name misleading, and Tesla has offered to rename it "Tesla Assisted Driving" in Germany. Eight European countries have already approved the system.
President Donald Trump is expected to unveil $2.4 billion in AI commitments from Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google at a Washington summit, Bloomberg reports.
New York’s updated, unsealed lawsuit alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including children and teens, nonworking “placebo” versions of safety tools such as Algo Refresh. TikTok says it regularly tests features and provided a statement to The Verge.
TechRadar reports Europe is making digital sovereignty a strategic priority and using open source to reduce reliance on non-EU technology. A June 2026 EU package includes Chips Act 2.0, CADA and an Open Source Strategy, while security and supply-chain participation remain central.
A former CIA official pleaded guilty to using a fake Special Access Program to steal $193.6 million, funding gold bars, luxury watches, cars and real estate. The FBI recovered assets; sentencing is set for Jan. 28, 2027.
Google has added live UK petrol and diesel prices to Google Maps and Waze, drawing on the government's Fuel Finder service. Prices appear in searches and station listings, and forecourts must update changes within 30 minutes.
Sherrod Brown, the Democratic former Ohio senator, is making datacenter opposition a central issue in his midterm Senate campaign, blaming Republican Senator Jon Husted for tax breaks and rising energy costs. Husted’s campaign denies the charge, and the race remains tight.