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Drawing indecent photos of children with Photoshop is also illegal in lots of countries and any company creating them for profit would be liable.

This is such a poor understanding of what happened in Rotherham, not least of all nobody has ever claimed the UK government itself was the one running the trafficking ring, it borders on fantasy. I’m guessing from your spelling you’re not from the UK, so I’d question where you’re getting your information on this, and your understanding of how the UK public sector and government is structured.

The corruption in South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham council (neither of which are part of HMG) in the 1990s and early 2000s also has absolutely nothing to do with UK Government cyber security policy in 2026.

This is wrong, they did add proof of age checks.

I have this in iOS 16 so it’s not new (and not fixed it sounds like) sadly.

Snowden revealed PRISM meant the US government just had straight access to servers of major providers, so they didn’t need any of this. I would be shocked if the NSA hadn’t stepped up its data collection efforts in the last decade in secret.

It's too much money for a non-profit that is failing by all possible metrics and is saying it is struggling for revenue.

This seems such a bizarre statement to make about Europeans, which isn’t…in anyway true? Europeans start working straight out of school, college, or university same as the US?

_In America_.

Disney is meant to be a global company. If offensive videos happen this will backfire in many regions.

The UK ICO has nothing to do with the EU.

And then refers to it as almost perfect. Being unable to follow a basic command like that means it is “nearly usable” rather than “nearly perfect”.

If I ask a model to transcribe something exactly and it outputs an interpretation, that is an error and not a success.

I'd be careful going around advertising yourself publicly as banned for that, even if it's not true.

Aren’t most files used on an operating system day to day downloaded from the Internet? This feels like it completely kills that feature’s utility.

Use client and use server aren’t great, but the fact they had to be declared at the top of a file was at least clear.

Starting to scatter magic strings throughout a code base feels like a real step back.

Requiring police to wear and use body cameras is judicial activism to achieve...?

There’s no evidence anything was false in the actual documentary.

Setting aside whether it’s true, that’s not a thought crime by any definition.

4K is big but certainly was not as big a leap forward as SD to HD

This applies to all users and isn’t related to OSA (though that will probably make leaks like this more likely).

Half of those are the same outlier iMac (note, from the 90s) as in the original article, and the rest are indeed grey boxes?

No. If you are operating a p2p video chat site that is accessed by minors and you have no way for users to block or report content, then you are indeed going to face issues.

If a user is downloading a Linux image via bit torrent, or using WebRTC data channels to synchronise many clients using a p2p mechanism, what is the risk that needs age restricting?

This is what I meant, the OP is factually incorrect that just adding P2P technology to a service means it must age gate.

Ofcom has a clear guide on how harmful to minors is defined. It is even clearly referenced in your own links:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/cons...

Your own links also reference the fact that moderation of content by platforms will allow them to comply with the law.

I don’t like this law and not here to defend its existence. But it is factually untrue just adding this would mean you also need to age verify users.

Case in point (which is not a rare use case), I use webrtc signalling to establish data connections in a multiplayer online game. Why would that require age verification when users are unable to send random content to one another?

They do, but unlike what the OP claims, you do not need to age verify your site just because you added a social element. If the purpose is not to distribute pornography/other age restricted materials and you are able to moderate the site (ie: are not facebook scale), this is not required.

The law sucks but the misinformation around it is getting out of hand.

This is factually untrue and either venting or wilfully ignorant of the actual law.

Most of the non tech population know it as that website that can translate text or write an email. I would need to see actual evidence that anything more than a small, terminally online subsection of the average population thought LLMs were conscious.

""Sam Altman says the perfect AI is “a very tiny model with superhuman reasoning".""

It is being marketed as directly related to human reasoning.

Skeptics think A.I. is an overhyped tool, not an existential risk. Why would they be shouting about it from the roof tops?

Plenty of comment sections with reasonable skeptical takes, they’re just not good headline fodder.

The law was passed by the previous government and everyone assumed the next government would take great delight in reversing it.

I wouldn’t be so sure that any next government (which, by the way, there is still a non zero chance could be Labour) will necessarily reverse this. Maybe Reform would tweak the topics, but I’m not convinced any party can be totally trusted to reverse this.

This is like a news editor suggesting a future of development: zero bugs, never goes down, can be used anywhere, usable be anyone. Yes these all seem nice, but they're just a wishlist that is borderline impossible in practice.

Also personalisation of news is almost the number one 'hidden dopamine hooks', and in many ways the most insidious in its impact.

America has spent the last century proclaiming itself the greatest country on earth, whilst simultaneously causing untold political and social problems in "lesser countries" to its own benefit.

Some deep rooted resentment when an American criticises a place is natural.