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Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

Public Sector08 Apr 2026 |

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear

AI + ML05 Apr 2026 | 69

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll

Legal31 Mar 2026 | 60

ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says

The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it

Legal18 Mar 2026 | 14

Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st

In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’

Security18 Mar 2026 | 9

Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066

'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff

SaaS16 Mar 2026 | 13

Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI

Updated F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance

AI + ML16 Mar 2026 | 7

Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems

Opinion Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California’s legal lunacy

OSes16 Mar 2026 | 82

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants

Asia in brief PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and more

AI + ML16 Mar 2026 | 22

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Opinion Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

OSes13 Mar 2026 | 248

Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban

Court issues preliminary injunction but delays it to allow an appeal

AI + ML11 Mar 2026 | 23

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

World War Fee Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack

Legal09 Mar 2026 | 27

Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it

Lower app store fees are on the way, plus an on-ramp for third party digital bazaars

Legal05 Mar 2026 | 12

OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails

AI + ML02 Mar 2026 | 35

China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy

Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination

Legal27 Feb 2026 | 20

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Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country

Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns

Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China

FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews

ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says

Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st

Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066

Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI

Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it

OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy

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California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge

Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Legal protection for ethical hacking under Computer Misuse Act is only the first step

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Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust

European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger

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India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight