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As Britain’s King Charles III stood up in the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to present the new Labour government’s proposed legislative program, technology experts were primed for any mention of artificial intelligence (AI). In the event, amidst the colorful pomp and arcane ceremony the British state is famous for in the state opening of Parliament, what the speech delivered was mostly a promise of future legislation shorn of any detail on the form this will take.
CIO
Planned obsolescence, poor quality, or simple accidents are some of the reasons why products break. Today, more and more people want to repair devices and give them a second life, yet finding solutions can be difficult. Thomas Opsomer, a repair policy engineer at iFixit, explains that it can be more difficult to repair products today than it was even 30 years ago. "When it comes to mainstream products, they are becoming more integrated, more miniaturised, with increasingly complex ways of assembling them," he tells Euronews. This complexity can also impact the cost of repairs. 'Replacing is th...
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12 EU countries are set to miss their national climate targets under the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), according to a study analysing national climate plans. Another seven are at risk of not meeting their goals. If they don’t meet their required emissions reductions, they may have to pay financial penalties. The ESR is a policy framework - part of the EU’s climate and energy package - that sets binding national greenhouse gas targets for the 27 member states. It requires them to collectively cut emissions by 40 per cent (compared to 2005) by 2030. Member states have to meet climate targets ...
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The effective altruism (E.A.) movement, which began with the premise that philanthropists should do the most good per dollar spent, injected pragmatism into an arena where good intentions can trump rational, effective number crunching. A generation of effective altruists—many schooled in Silicon Valley thought—have since embraced this metric-driven, impartial philosophy and translated their own good intentions into good works. However, artificial intelligence (AI) exposes a flaw in the movement: a powerful faction of doomsayers. The result is not just misplaced philanthropy but lobbying to cre...
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Shortcomings in incident reporting are leaving a dangerous gap in the regulation of AI technologies. In other safety-critical industries, such as aviation and medicine, incidents are tracked and investigated but such incident reporting is lacking in the increasingly important are of AI, warns the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR), a UK think tank. Incidents where AI systems unexpectedly malfunction or produce erroneous outputs when faced with situations outside their training data are becoming a growing problem as AI systems are increasingly deployed in critical real-world applications. P...
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Lufthansa is adding an environmental charge to its ticket prices. The German airline group says the funds are needed to comply with EU regulations on reducing emissions. A fee of up to €72 will be added to fares to offset the cost of introducing sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and other carbon-cutting initiatives, the group says. The fee will come in on flights from 1 January 2025. Lufthansa is one of the first in Europe to introduce a fee like this but it could be a sign of things to come from other airlines. Which flights will the environmental charge be added to?Airlines have warned for y...
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Thousands of cases of high blood pressure, diabetes and dementia across Europe could be linked to tiny particles emitted by planes, according to a new study commissioned by campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E). More than 10 per cent of Europe’s total population - 52 million people - live within a 20km radius of the 32 busiest airports in the continent. This means they are particularly exposed to these ultrafine particles (UFPs) emitted by the jet engines of planes that take off and land there. Some studies suggest UFPs may be linked to an increased risk of respiratory diseases, cardiov...
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US regulators said on Tuesday that they “uncovered reason to believe” TikTok and its parent company ByteDance are “violating or are about to violate” a US child privacy law. The law requires kid-oriented websites to get parental permission before collecting information about those under the age of 13. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) referred the complaint to the US justice department. The agency also cited potential violations of the FTC Act, the law that outlines its enforcement responsibilities. A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment on the substance of the refer...
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The federal regulations that make dishwashers and washing machines worse are also illegal. So claim consumers from Texas and Louisiana in a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). While DOE has the authority to regulate the energy used by these appliances, the lawsuit argues, Congress never gave it the power to regulate the devices' water usage. Therefore, recent rules imposing limits on their water use are illegal. "The Department of Energy has the ability to write rules for itself that are supposed to be based on legislative text," says Dan Greenberg, general counsel f...
Reason
Among those who think the United States is an unseemly cesspool of unrestrained opinions voiced by those people, Europe is often touted as an alternative for speech regulation. European Union law, following in the footsteps of national legislation, imposes enforceable duties on private platforms to purge "hate speech" and "disinformation"—or else. But free speech advocates warn that these laws are clumsy and dangerous tools that threaten to muzzle expression far beyond the bounds of their nominal targets. They're right, and they now have receipts. Europe's Intrusive Speech RegulationsIn a new ...
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