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

The only functional difference between a Trump Phone and the HTC U24 Pro is the battery, iFixit discovered.

Engadget

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

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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

Small Models and Smartphones Beat Sovereign AI GPU Clusters - ICTworks

We need to build different artificial intelligence, on the devices people already carry, in the languages they already speak.

ICTworks
Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’

Home secretary also urged to force tech firms to share data on stolen devices and if they are reactivated

The Guardian