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B.C. human rights commissioner details government action, inaction on recommendations
British Columbia’s human rights commissioner says her office has been “re-energized” to push the provincial government to act upon dozens of recommendations to improve human rights made in her first five-year term. Kasari Govender’s office released a report Tuesday into the progress made by the government to act upon recommendations made between 2019 and 2024. …
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European Union investigates four major porn sites under bloc’s digital rules on child protection
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators said Tuesday they’re investigating four major porn websites over suspicions that they’ve breached the bloc’s online content rules that include provisions for protecting children from pornographic material. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, said it has opened formal proceedings against Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos under the 27-nation…
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Fort Providence man pleads guilty to crack cocaine offence in Deline
A Fort Providence man was sentenced to 30 months, minus time served, and barred from owning a firearm for a decade after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine in Deline. In territorial court on May 16, John Minoza, 37, of Fort Providence, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance for…
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Casino giant Caesars Entertainment reports cyberattack; MGM Resorts says some systems still down
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino company Caesars Entertainment on Thursday joined Las Vegas gambling rival MGM Resorts International in reporting that it was hit by a cyberattack, but added in a report to federal regulators that its casino and online operations were not disrupted. The Reno-based publicly traded company told the federal Securities and Exchange…
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Government websites down in four provinces, territories; cyberattacks blamed in two
Government websites in four provinces and territories were shut down Thursday, with at least two jurisdictions blaming cyberattacks for their outages. Websites for Yukon, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Nunavut were all inaccessible. P.E.I. and Yukon said cyberattacks were behind their shutdowns. “At midnight on Sept.14, Yukon.ca experienced a cyberattack that shut down the website…
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Imagine making shadowy data brokers erase your personal info. Californians may soon live the dream
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — You may not know it, but thousands of often shadowy companies routinely traffic in personal data you probably never agreed to share — everything from your real-time location information to private financial details. Even if you could identify these data brokers, there isn’t much you can do about their activities, including…
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Tech industry leaders endorse regulating artificial intelligence at rare summit in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s biggest technology executives on Wednesday loosely endorsed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence at an unusual closed-door meeting in the U.S. Senate. But there is little consensus on what regulation would look like, and the political path for legislation is difficult. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who organized…
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Tech titans have ‘a very civilized discussion’ with senators on artificial intelligence, Musk says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators heard from prominent technology executives and others in private Wednesday on how to accomplish the potentially impossible task of passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks. The closed-door forum on Capitol Hill convened by Senate Majority Leader Chuck…
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Tech titans will give senators advice on artificial intelligence in a closed door forum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks. On Wednesday, he’s convening a meeting of some of the country’s most prominent technology executives, among…
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Quebec government says data not compromised after websites hit by cyberattack
QUEBEC — The Quebec government has been hit with a denial-of-service style cyberattack allegedly carried out by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName, with some government-linked websites down as a result. Eric Caire, the province’s cybersecurity minister, told reporters today the websites hit include the province’s Treasury Board, the Quebec securities regulator, the Economy Department and…
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B.C. aware of dike problems before destructive flooding in 2021, documents show
Officials with the British Columbia government and the City of Merritt were aware of significant problems with dikes for several years before a series of atmospheric rivers flooded the community, documents released through a freedom of information request show. The documents obtained by the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives show a…