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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Meta settles major US trial over teen social media addiction for up to $17bn

Meta settles major US trial over teen social media addiction for up to $17bn

Tech company agrees to create further protections for teen users amid accusations of harming children with products Meta reached an agreement to settle a landmark case brought by states across the US that accused the tech giant of addicting and harming children with dangerous products, according to a court filing released on Wednesday. The agreement will require the social media company to pay up to $17bn. Meta agreed to establish safeguards for teenage users, including daily usage limits and nighttime blocks nationwide in the US. This is the first time Meta has been forced to change how its platforms function. As part of the settlement, the company denies wrongdoing. Continue reading...

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nam kiwanuka@namshine.bsky.social · 7d ago

‘“policy” may have even become a p-word, a policed word at NIH-from “clean energy” to “pollution” to “trans” to “bias” to “race” to “women”-when appearing somewhere in your grant application to a federal agency like the NIH or the National Science Foundation could get that application flagged’

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 7d ago

My sources inside NIH tell me that grant applications at NIH will now be screened for policy related research and flagged for non-pay. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives@policyalternatives.ca · 7d ago

[AI data centre projects] "are often fast-tracked by local and regional governments, cutting corners to overcome opposition,” said @policyalternatives.ca Senior Researcher @simonenoch.bsky.social #abpoli #cndpoli #democracy albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/vote...

Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance - Alberta Politics

Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against Artificial Intelligence data centres hard and fast, what’s Alberta’s United Conservative Party going to do? They’ve spent two years plan...

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John Michael McGrath@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 2w ago

you mean to tell me the Trump White House is not negotiating in good faith, I'm shocked, shocked www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

One of Trump's top deputies has been unsatisfied with the deal on the table for Canada, sources say | CBC News

One of U.S. President Donald Trump's most influential cabinet members has expressed dissatisfaction with the state of the trade deal on the table with Canada and is pushing for changes to be made as t...

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Fatima Syed@fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s been the summer of data centre controversies in Ontario. From Armour Township to Oakville, councils are raising alarms about the few rules governing these huge facilities or the enormous resources they consume. Now, Ontario has a playbook I unpack it all: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-ai-d... #onpoli

Ontario’s AI data centre plan, explained | The Narwhal

As cities like Mississauga and Oakville, Ont., vote to block data centre development, the Doug Ford government has released its own playbook for the AI infrastructure

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Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2w ago

An army unit is offering some soldiers a 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI as an incentive to reenlist for a minimum of two years. Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion have already chosen this incentive. www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-t...

Army unit offers 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI as reenlistment incentive

Eligible soldiers must reenlist for a minimum of two years and up to six years.

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PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w ago

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines and spacing out shots across separate doctor visits.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lack of affordable housing is bad for our health, as individuals and as a country. On the housing front we need fewer calls to action and more action, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

Lack of affordable housing is bad for our health, as individuals and as a country

Public policy needs to change more quickly and robustly to tackle such a fundamental problem

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PBS News@pbsnews.org · last mo.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning his divisive plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity after receiving pushback from all corners of the soccer world. https://to.pbs.org/4w43pjr

Infantino abandoned his World Cup equity plan after seismic FIFA backlash. Here's what to know

“Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objec...

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