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Crack down on 'wild west' of illegal number plates 'not fit for purpose'

Crack down on 'wild west' of illegal number plates 'not fit for purpose' The British Number Plates Association (BNMA) has raised concerns about the number of illegal number plates on the road, which can lead to stolen identities and provide cover for serious crime Plans to crack down on counterfeit and tampered with number plates are “incredibly vague” and “not fit for purpose”, ministers have been warned. The British Number Plates Association (BNMA) has raised concerns about the number of...

CA Senator Wiener on Regulating the Wild West of AI

AI Is Slowing Down

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MPs warned about deadly ‘frog poison’ skin cream being sold into Britain

MPs warned about deadly ‘frog poison’ skin cream being sold into Britain Regulators warn of skin products scraped from the skin of a live giant monkey frog and traditionally used in shamanic rituals which has been linked to deaths Experts have warned of “snake oil” cosmetic products being sold into the UK via Amazon. A powerful committee of MPs has investigated the unregulated “wild west” cosmetics industry in the UK including cosmetic products such as a skin cream made from poisonous frogs....

Big Tech is through harming our children. This is our time to fight back

For years, America treated the internet like a free speech "Wild West," assuming the online world should operate with almost no guardrails. Because of this, our nation has operated under two dangerous assumptions about Big Tech: that platforms should be free to publish virtually anything without accountability, and that tech companies should be allowed to design their platforms however they want because "users can always leave. "Courts, parents and state legislatures are now rejecting both...

MAGA bikini congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna patrols streets in a cop car, Angel goes flying & abandoned malls

First Hump Day of a new month. Who has it better than us? I'm actually coming to you live from inside our local Hyundai dealership, where the First Lady's car is getting an oil change.

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Textile wastewater treatment generates alarmingly high levels of toxic compounds, study reveals

Textile wastewater treatment generates alarmingly high levels of toxic compounds, study reveals Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Textile wastewater treatment practices inadvertently produce toxic byproducts—including chloroform and bromoform—at alarming levels that pose a clear occupational health hazard and lead to unknown environmental effects downstream, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have found. The study is published in the Journal of Hazardous...

Brits want new AI labelling laws as Nigel Farage deepfake sparks scam warning

Brits want new AI labelling laws as Nigel Farage deepfake sparks scam warning EXCLUSIVE: New polling shows three quarters of Brits want compulsory labeling for AI-generated images on social media as fears grow that hyper-realistic clips are misleading users Three quarters of Brits want mandatory labelling of AI images to stop people being deceived, new research shows. Ministers face calls to bring in the legal requirement as a first step to tackling the AI "slopocalypse” on social media.

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