IT総合 Bill to ban social media use by under-16s arrives in Australia’s parliament
Legislation to ban social media for under 16s has been introduced in the Australian parliament. The country’s Prim...
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IT総合 IT総合 DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigati...
IT総合 UK open to social media ban for kids as gov’t kicks off feasibility study
The U.K. government is not ruling out further beefing up existing online safety rules by adding an Australian-style ban ...
IT総合 Hail Mary! AI in the confessional
We’ve seen AI chatbots in religious apps before, but a chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland has gone further — put...
IT総合 EU AI Act: Everything you need to know
The European Union’s risk-based rulebook for artificial intelligence — aka the EU AI Act — has been years in the m...
IT総合 EU AI Act: Draft guidance for general purpose AIs shows first steps for Big AI to comply
A first draft of a Code of Practice that will apply to providers of general-purpose AI models under the European Union&#...
IT総合 Atlas.co wants its web-based mapping tool to be the Figma of geospatial data
Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’...
IT総合 Apple faces UK ‘iCloud monopoly’ compensation claim worth $3.8 billion
U.K. consumer rights group ‘Which?’ is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of...
IT総合 Bounce bags $19M to expand its traveler convenience network
Luggage storage as a vector for piling into convenience-based revenue opportunities in the business of global travel con...
IT総合 Apple’s geoblocks on media services in EU draw consumer protection ire
Apple’s pile of regulatory woes in the European Union has ticked up again: the iPhone maker is being accused of un...
IT総合 Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on building an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech
Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses a...
IT総合 Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on building an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech
Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses a...
IT総合 As demand for lithium explodes, battery recycling startup Tozero sprints to scale with $11.7M seed
Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up t...
IT総合 As demand for lithium explodes, battery recycling startup Tozero sprints to scale with $11.7M seed
Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up t...
IT総合 Glint Solar grabs $8M to help accelerate solar energy adoption across Europe
Solar energy is booming, which is good news for Glint Solar. The Norwegian software-as-a-service startup has built a pla...
IT総合 Corning, maker of toughened Gorilla Glass for phones, faces EU antitrust probe
On Wednesday, the European Union opened an investigation of U.S. manufacturer Corning over possible anti-competitive pra...
IT総合 Apple to be fined for breaching EU’s Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg reports
The European Union’s flagship market contestability regulation has been in force on a handful of tech giants for m...
IT総合 Meta found to have exposed info on North Korean defectors to advertisers
Meta has added another privacy sanction to its extensive collection: South Korea’s data protection agency fined th...
IT総合 Printful and Printify ink a merger deal
Two veteran European companies in the world of on-demand printing are merging, and you may have not even realised they w...
IT総合 Nvidia-Run:ai deal to be reviewed under EU’s merger rules
The European Union has tossed a spanner in the works of chipmaker Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based ...
IT総合 Temu’s low cost marketplace faces formal probe in EU over raft of DSA compliance concerns
The European Union has expanded its scrutiny of online marketplaces by opening a formal proceeding on Chinese low cost e...
IT総合 EU boosts EIC budget for supporting deeptech R&D and strategic scale-ups
The European Union will spend €1.4 billion (about $1.5 billion) next year to bolster deeptech research and support scale...
IT総合 Margaret Atwood’s verdict on AI poetry is in — and it’s not good
Bestselling author Margaret Atwood isn’t worried about the indefatigable rise of generative AI — telling Reuters t...
IT総合 Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting
Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle. But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is...
IT総合 Medtech Alimetry gases up with $18 million for a wearable to help diagnose gastric disorders
Gut health isn’t the most glamorous of topics, but as many as 1 in 10 people regularly suffer from gastric symptom...
IT総合 UK revives plan to reform data protection rules with an eye on boosting the economy
A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures t...
IT総合 LinkedIn fined $356 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches
Bad news for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn in Europe where it has been reprimanded and fined €310 million for privacy violati...
IT総合 Intel’s $1.45 billion EU antitrust fine is officially history
A €1.06 billion EU antitrust penalty on chipmaker Intel for abuse of dominance dating back to 2009 (when it was equivale...
IT総合 Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visu...
IT総合 Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visu...