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Arkansas just passed an age-verification social media law with some confusing exemptions

TechSpot

The law requires social media companies that earn more than $100 million in annual revenue to work with third-party services to verify new account holders' personal information. This is done using "any commercially reasonable age verification method" or government-issued IDs such as photo IDs or driver's licenses.

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Faster, more personal, proactive: How generative AI is transforming digital government for citizens

CIO Business Intelligence

Government and public sector agencies are already exploring the potential of generative AI in delivering more effective services from the inside. New research by McGuire Research Services for Avanade shows that 98% of government and public service organisations believe that citizens prefer to engage with them via new technologies like AI.

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After fan outcry, Wizards of the Coast will leave its original open license in place

GeekWire

(Wizards of the Coast Image) Wizards of the Coast is officially leaving its old rules in place to govern independently-published material for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game. would seek to deauthorize and replace its Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice from 2000. And we’ve listened.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and implications for interactions between government and citizens

CTOvision

In this post we provide Marc’s thoughts around how automation and AI may change the nature of interaction between government and citizen. Gourley: Do you have any suggestions that can help us think through how automation plus AI change the social fabric and interactions between citizens and government?

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

In this post we provide some of Marc’s views around the nature of government services in the near future. Gourley: In the near future of 2030, do you have thoughts on services that government currently delivers to citizens that will be done better or perhaps rendered obsolete because of new personal computing technologies?

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Facebook strikes News Corp deal to license news from Australian media outlets

The Verge

Facebook last month shut off the ability for Australian users and media organizations to share news links in the country , and now it seems the company’s extraordinary measure has resulted in a compromise for the most interested parties as media giant News Corp has struck a licensing deal with the social network.

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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). However, the ICE contract would appear to comply with Clearview’s earlier pledge.

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