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Articles from www.bbc.com

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences (www.bbc.com)
20 days ago

A look at YouTube's hidden world: most of the videos on the platform capture everyday life and have rarely been seen, with the median video having just 41 views (www.bbc.com)
24 days ago YouTube

The US and the UK did not join France, China, India, and other countries in singing an international AI agreement in Paris, without explaining their reasons (www.bbc.com)
2025-2-11 China France India AI Paris

An Adalytics report shows how ad systems run by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others inadvertently placed ads on a website that hosts CSAM (www.bbc.com)
2025-2-8 Google Amazon Microsoft

The UK announces four new laws that make it illegal to possess, create, or distribute AI tools designed to produce CSAM, becoming the first country to do so (www.bbc.com)
2025-2-2 AI

The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down is a “stunt” as there is “no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions” before Trump takes office (www.bbc.com)
2025-1-19 Trump

At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection with 764, a “Satanist” terror network targeting children online for sexual blackmail and violence (www.bbc.com)
2025-1-18 Terrorism

After complaints from BBC, Apple plans an update “in the coming weeks” that will make it clearer to users when Apple Intelligence is summarizing notifications (www.bbc.com)
2025-1-7 Apple Intelligence

The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely made it appear BBC published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself (www.bbc.com)
2024-12-14 Apple Intelligence

When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk can be either an avid Trump supporter or can try to become “a sort of political puppet master” (www.bbc.com)
2024-12-7 Trump

An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more (www.bbc.com)
2024-12-5 Interview AI

Telegram agrees to work with the IWF to stop the spread of CSAM; IWF calls Telegram's decision “transformational” and the first step in a “much longer journey” (www.bbc.com)
2024-12-4

Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (www.bbc.com)
2024-10-30

Some users on X who share content that includes election misinformation, AI images, and conspiracy theories say they are being paid “thousands of dollars” by X (www.bbc.com)
2024-10-30 AI Conspiracy

ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions (www.bbc.com)
2024-10-21 AI

The US and the UK announce an agreement to keep children safer online, including plans to set up an online safety working group to share evidence and expertise (www.bbc.com)
2024-10-15

A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries (www.bbc.com)
2024-9-22 Crowdfunding

Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes (www.bbc.com)
2024-9-19

Spotify wins a long-running, complicated music rights case in US district court, where Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style claimed Spotify lacked proper licenses (www.bbc.com)
2024-9-6 Spotify

The UK's CMA launches an investigation into whether the sale of Oasis tickets on Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law, including via “dynamic pricing” (www.bbc.com)
2024-9-6

A deepfake porn crisis has hit 500+ Korean schools, as police investigate crime rings targeting two major universities and say a probe into Telegram may follow (www.bbc.com)
2024-9-4 Korea

UK shelves promised £800M for Edinburgh University exascale supercomputer and £500M for AI Research Resource, saying former government never allocated the funds (www.bbc.com)
2024-8-3 AI

Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage hits airlines, media and banks (www.bbc.com)
2024-7-19

TikTok confirms it offered the US a “kill switch” in 2022 to shut down the app in the US at the government's discretion if TikTok did not follow certain rules (www.bbc.com)
2024-6-21

Qilin, hackers behind the London hospitals hack, published ~400GB of patient data on their darknet site and Telegram channel; the NHS is investigating the claim (www.bbc.com)
2024-6-21 London Darknet

Copywriters detail how AI is changing their jobs, with some seeing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less (www.bbc.com)
2024-6-17 AI

A look at the uptick of AI-generated videos on TikTok featuring politicians in the UK; Ofcom says TikTok was the fastest growing news source in 2022 and 2023 (www.bbc.com)
2024-6-3 AI

The UK ICO is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over the company's Recall feature, which some privacy campaigners have called a potential “privacy nightmare” (www.bbc.com)
2024-5-22 Microsoft ICO

Ofcom proposes new rules requiring tech companies to change their algorithms to hide “toxic” material from children, have more robust age checks, and more (www.bbc.com)
2024-5-9 Algorithm

A Finnish court sentences hacker Julius Kivimäki to six years and three months, after he breached a healthcare database and attempted to blackmail 33,000 people (www.bbc.com)
2024-4-30 Database Hacker Finland

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