An opportunity for all nations to agree on what constitutes illegal speech? I doubt it.
EU agrees on landmark law aimed at forcing Big Tech firms to tackle illegal content
… The European Parliament and EU member states reached a deal on the Digital Services Act, a landmark piece of legislation that aims to address illegal and harmful content by getting platforms to rapidly take it down.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition chief and a key architect of the bloc’s digital reforms, said the deal is “better than the proposal that we tabled” back in 2020.
… A key part of the legislation would limit how digital giants target users with online ads. The DSA would effectively stop platforms from targeting users with algorithms using data based on their gender, race or religion. Targeting children with ads will also be prohibited.
So-called dark patterns — deceptive tactics designed to push people toward certain products and service — will be banned as well.
… E-commerce marketplaces like Amazon must also prevent sales of illegal goods under the new rules.
… Another provision would require very large online platforms and search engines to take certain measures in the event of a crisis, like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Failure to comply with the rules may result in fines of up to 6% of companies’ global annual revenues.
Self-driving starts off-road?
https://thenextweb.com/news/john-deere-slowly-becoming-one-worlds-most-important-ai-companies
John Deere is slowly becoming one of the world’s most important AI companies
… What most outsiders don’t know is that John Deere’s not so much a farming vehicle manufacturer these days as it is an agricultural technology company. And, judging by how things are going in 2022, we’re predicting it’ll be a full-on artificial intelligence company within the next 15 years.
John Deere’s been heavily-invested in robotics and autonomy for decades. Back in the late 1990s, the company acquired GPS startup NavCon in hopes of building satellite-directed guidance systems for tractors.
Within a few years, JD was able to develop a system that was accurate to a few centimeters — previous GPS systems could be off by as much as several meters.
The company then partnered with none other than NASA to create the world’s first internet-based GPS tracking system.
In other words: the path to modern autonomous vehicles was sowed and tilled by John Deer tractors and NASA decades ago.
Free is good.
https://www.makeuseof.com/world-book-day-amazon-giving-free-kindle-books/
Amazon Is Giving Away 10 Free Kindle Books for World Book Day
Until April 27, 2022, you can get 10 free Kindle books from Amazon. Here's how to claim them.
How AI will establish contact.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-04-23
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