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EU AI Rules Delay Tech Rollouts, But Civil Societies Says Safety Comes First
Tech companies are adamant that the regulation of artificial intelligence in the E.U. is preventing its citizens from accessing the latest and greatest products. However, a number of civil society groups feel otherwise, maintaining that AI developers need to produce products that uphold their customers’ safety and privacy. Some of tech giants’ delayed launches in EU There have been a…
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Bike Riding Safety Tips for New and Experienced Riders
Keep in mind that safety doesn’t just mean protective equipment; it’s also about how cyclists interact with motorists, pedestrians, and other cyclists. Obey the law. The League of American Bicyclists reminds riders, “You have the same rights and responsibilities as drivers.” This means that cyclists have to follow all traffic laws and obey street signs, signals, and road markings. Ride…
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Fears Grow Over Delay of UK AI Safety Bill to Appease Trump Camp
Chi Onwurah, chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee. Image: UK Parliament/Flickr/Creative Commons Legislation that mandates safety testing of artificial intelligence technologies is at risk of being pushed aside by the U.K. government, the head of the tech select committee says. Labour’s Chi Onwurah warned that the delay may reflect political efforts to align more closely with the…
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Evenflo Car Seat Recall: 20 Models Missing Safety Registration Card
The recalled car seats are still safe to use for your little one, but it is important to register your car seat as soon as possible with the manufacturer so you don’t miss out on any safety updates. “Filling out the registration form for your car seat allows the manufacturer to easily contact you in the case of a recall,”…
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Meta is trying to ‘offload’ kids safety onto app stores, Google says
While Meta, Snap, and X issued a joint statement praising the Utah bill’s passage, Google calls it “concerning.” Rather than protect kids and give parents more control, Google director of public policy Kareem Ghanem writes, the legislation “requires app stores to share if a user is a kid or teenager with all app developers (effectively millions of individual companies) without…
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CR’s Guide to Deck Maintenance and Safety
To ensure safety and visibility, municipalities usually mandate lighting around deck areas such as steps and landings, says Patrick Harders, a landscape lighting designer and co-owner of Sterling Lighting, an outdoor lighting maker in Danville, Va. But avoid wall-mounted security floodlights. “You don’t need that ‘prison breakout’ look to make things safe,” Harders says. Instead, choose softer lighting for a…
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Safety of Food Supply Threatened by FDA Spending Freeze
Food safety experts in and outside the agency agree that the food program’s budget was already inadequate to carry out the amount of oversight required even before the new administration took over this year. Indeed, some of the budget cuts to outbreak rapid response teams now going into effect were first proposed under the previous administration’s FDA, says Steven Mandernach,…
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U.K.’s International AI Safety Report Highlights Rapid AI Progress
A new report published by the U.K. government says that OpenAI’s o3 model has made a breakthrough on an abstract reasoning test that many experts thought “out of reach.” This is an indicator of the pace that AI research is advancing at, and that policymakers may soon need to decide whether to intervene before there is time to gather a…
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Winter Car Emergency Kit | Winter Driving Safety
Some kits also come with these items, which can come in handy regardless of the weather: Tow strap. A simple tool, a strap can be essential if you ever need to be pulled out of a ditch. Before using a towing strap, be sure you know how much weight the strap can tow (reputable straps have that information printed on a…
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DeepSeek R1 has taken the world by storm, but security experts claim it has ‘critical safety flaws’ that you need to know about
DeepSeek R1, the new frontier reasoning model that shook up the AI industry, is vulnerable to a wide range of jailbreaking techniques, according to new research. A new report from Cisco warns that although DeepSeek’s R1 frontier reasoning model has been able to compete with state-of-the-art models from OpenAI or Anthropic, it has been found to have “critical safety flaws”.…
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