IT総合 France’s Mistral dials up call for EU AI rules to fix rules for apps, not model makers
Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawma...
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IT総合 IT総合 EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X
A microtargeted advertising controversy which has implicated European Union lawmakers in privacy-hostile practices banne...
IT総合 Amazon next in line for EU scrutiny over product risks and user rights
Ecommerce behemoth Amazon has joined the growing list of tech giants getting formal requests for information (RFIs) from...
IT総合 Meta and Snap latest to get EU request for info on child safety, as bloc shoots for ‘unprecedented’ transparency
Meta and Snap are the latest tech firms to get formal requests for information (RFI) from the European Commission about ...
IT総合 EU asks TikTok and YouTube for more info on how they’re safeguarding kids
The European Commission has sent another couple of formal requests for information to major platforms subject to the blo...
IT総合 Secure messaging app Signal moves a step closer to launching usernames
End-to-end encrypted messaging app, Signal, is getting closer to launching a much anticipated feature that will allow us...
IT総合 UK’s online safety regulator puts out draft guidance on illegal content, saying child safety is priority
The U.K.’s newly empowered Internet content regulator has published the first set of draft Codes of Practice under...
IT総合 Withings Body Scan review: A smart scale that tracks cardio heath, body comp and more
French health tech brand Withings has been around the block and some. These days it offers a range of fitness wearables ...
IT総合 The 20 best STEM toys to gift coders-in-training
There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic. The hype that started about a decade ago, pow...
IT総合 Daye now offers tampon-based STI screening — starting in the UK
UK femcare-turned-gynaecological-health startup, Daye, has expanded its tampon-based home screening service to add STI t...
IT総合 Dreamfarm, a startup out of Italy’s Food Valley, is setting its sights on the perfect vegan mozzarella
Vegan cheese isn’t usually anything to write home about, in terms of taste and texture. Dreamfarm, a startup based...
IT総合 Meta’s latest privacy rip-off will test the EU’s mettle for reining in Big Tech
This week Europe was treated to another show of the mutability of tech after Meta, the microtargeting ad empire formerly...
IT総合 Meta to offer ad-free subscription in Europe in bid to keep tracking other users
Meta is to offer an ad-free subscription version of Facebook and Instagram in the European Union, EEA (European Economic...
IT総合 Web Summit names ex-Wikimedia CEO, Katherine Maher, to take over in wake of Cosgrave controversy
Web Summit has named a new CEO: Katherine Maher — previously CEO and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundatio...
IT総合 EU lawmakers agree on key detection limits in controversial CSAM-scanning file
Key negotiators in the European Parliament have announced making a breakthrough in talks to set MEPs’ position on ...
IT総合 EU commissioner sidesteps MEPs’ questions about CSAM proposal microtargeting
The European Union’s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, has confirmed the Commission is investigating whet...
IT総合 Europe’s CSAM-scanning plan is a tipping point for democratic rights, experts warn
A controversial child sexual abuse material (CSAM)-scanning proposal that’s under discussion by lawmakers in Europ...
IT総合 After X, Meta and TikTok get EU request for info on response to Israel-Hamas war
Meta and TikTok have each been sent formal requests for information by the European Union under the bloc’s Digital...
IT総合 Give biotech a chance for the planet’s sake, EU lawmakers urged
European Union lawmakers are being urged to avoid too much risk aversion from holding back the potential of the homegrow...
IT総合 Meta says it’s prioritizing livestreaming checks during Israel-Hamas war
Following a content moderation warning from European Union regulators earlier this week, Meta has published an overview ...
IT総合 Bon Vivant toasts taking $15.9M to brew up versatile animal-free dairy proteins
Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast micro...
IT総合 EU also warns Meta over illegal content, disinfo targeting Israel-Hamas war
The European Union has expanded its warning about illegal content and disinformation targeting the Israel-Hamas war circ...
IT総合 EU fires urgent warning at Elon Musk’s X over illegal content and disinformation following Hamas attacks
In a very swift test of the European Union’s newly updated content moderation rulebook, the bloc has fired a public warn...
IT総合 Heura adds ‘York ham style slices’ to its 100%-plant-based vegan mix
Barcelona-based Heura, a disrupter in the plant-based protein space since 2017, has a product hitting shelves shortly in...
IT総合 Snap’s AI chatbot draws scrutiny in UK over kids’ privacy concerns
Snap’s AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the UK’s data protection watchdog which has raised ...
IT総合 Uber still dragging its feet on algorithmic transparency, Dutch court finds
Uber has been found to have failed to comply with European Union algorithmic transparency requirements in a legal challe...
IT総合 EU lawmakers take aim at ‘arbitrary’ decisions by Big Tech in Media Freedom Act vote
Mainstream social media platforms could face limits on their ability to take down independent journalism that violates t...
IT総合 Meta planning ad-free subscription or tracking ads ‘choice’ in EU, per WSJ — in latest bid to keep snooping
New battle lines appear to be being drawn up in the European Union between Facebook and Instagram owner Meta and regiona...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X headed for ‘rule of law’ clash with EU, warns Twitter’s former head of trust & safety
The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has warned the platform now known as X is charting a collision course wit...
IT総合 Amazon wins interim stay on delivering a public ads archive in early challenge to EU’s Digital Services Act
Amazon has chalked up an early (partial) win in a court challenge related to the European Union’s designation of i...