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from the oh-my-god-give-it-a-rest-already!!! dept.
Prime Minister Theresa May has not abandoned her usual crusades:
On a break from Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May takes her crusade against technology giants to Davos.
"No-one wants to be known as 'the terrorists' platform' or the first choice app for pedophiles," May is expected to say according to excerpts released by her office ahead of her speech Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "Technology companies still need to go further in stepping up their responsibilities for dealing with harmful and illegal online activity."
Don't forget the slave traders.
Luckily, May has a solution... Big AI:
After two years of repeatedly bashing social media companies, May will say that successfully harnessing the capabilities of AI -- and responding to public concerns about AI's impact on future generations -- is "one of the greatest tests of leadership for our time."
May will unveil a new government-funded Center for Data Ethics and Innovation that will provide companies and policymakers guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence.
Also at BBC, TechCrunch, and The Inquirer.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @04:00AM
UK gets a new tank for the army. Just in case they are captured by the enemy, UK demanded they come with a secret weak point, so they can disable them easily.
Problem is everyone can get such tanks even before the war, copy them over and over, and test and disassemble them until they figure where the weakness is. Because they are crypto programs, not physical tanks. The "limited money" or "hard to im/export by law" defenses don't fly, even less with civilian tools like software also used to connect with your bank webserver.
Do UK leaders still want that tank model? If they say yes, we now know they are total morons, and deserve an army uprising to kick them out, as they will push the army into unwinnable wars, with faulty equipment, because they think politics can win over physics, maths, chemistry and all those "silly" sciences.