Canada joining the ban social media from kids club with Australia, Brazil, Indonesia and those considering bans - Britain, France, Spain, Denmark, Thailand and South Korea.
New legislation will ban social media accounts for children younger than 16 unless the platform can demonstrate it is safe - aka platforms can get an exemption. Criteria for exemptions is yet to be specified.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-social-media-ban-16-kids-292444c9dd8773aeb4119aaa9eae5990 #Canada #SocialMedia #Children #Ban #Safety #ChildSafety #internet #Mobile #SmartPhones
Teardown finds that the Trump phone is practically the same as an HTC handset
I wonder how many parents would continue to allow their children #smartphones if they were able to see every single transaction they made.
'Dick pics' is a new one I heard on TV a few days ago. Girls are apparently routinely sent phallic images. And that is a tiny part of the toxicity of these devices.
Small Models and Smartphones Beat Sovereign AI GPU Clusters
ictworks.org/small-models-smar…
For most of the past three years, the implicit assumption in sovereign AI debates has been that meaningful AI capability requires hyperscaler-class compute. That assumption was correct in 2023. It is wrong now.
Two technical shifts have changed the geometry, and a third structural fact about the African device base decides whether the shifts can be put to work.
#AI #SmallLanguageModels #Africa #smartphones #SovereignTech
Das neue Samsung Galaxy S27 ist „offiziell“
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mobiflip.de/das-neue-samsung-galaxy-s27-ist-offiziell/