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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect users’ mental health
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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect users’ mental health

Regulator’s initial ruling says algorithm ‘can be harmful’ and led young and vulnerable viewers ‘down rabbit holes they can’t easily escape’ Business live – latest updates TikTok has been charged by the European Commission with failing to protect users’ mental health by exposing them to a relentless stream of content that risks worsening eating disorders and anxiety in a case that strikes at its business model. Issuing a preliminary ruling on Friday, the EU regulator said TikTok’s algorithm “can be harmful” and was leading young and vulnerable users “down rabbit holes they cannot easily escape

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Igbokoda air crash: NAF recovers cockpit voice recorder
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Igbokoda air crash: NAF recovers cockpit voice recorder

By Kingsley Omonobi The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has recorded further progress in the recovery and investigation of the ATR-42 aircraft accident in Igbokoda, Ondo State, with the recovery of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), confirmed intact by technical teams from the NAF and Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB). Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, Director of Public Relations and Information disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

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‘I’m never going to be bloody Robert De Niro!’: Rob Brydon, the most chipper man on TV
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‘I’m never going to be bloody Robert De Niro!’: Rob Brydon, the most chipper man on TV

He talks about rejecting Hollywood, refusing to play a villain – and why he just can’t make fun of Steve Coogan ‘I’m a nice person, you know,” says Rob Brydon, as I met him in a basement green room of the BBC, where probably nobody with such a mellow ego has ever sat. We’re here to talk about his new six-parter, Bill’s Included, but his character in it, the eponymous Bill, is such a distillation of pure Rob Brydon that it’s (accidentally, he says) a celebration of his entire career.

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Bawumia holds talks with Japanese institutions on technology, healthcare and infrastructure
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Bawumia holds talks with Japanese institutions on technology, healthcare and infrastructure

New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has held a series of engagements with key Japanese institutions as part of his visit to the Asian country, exploring opportunities and policy approaches in technology, healthcare, infrastructure development and industrialisation. Bawumia explores Japanese technology for Ghana’s galamsey challenge Earlier in the visit, Dr Bawumia toured 3R, a Japanese environmental technology company specialising in sustainable solutions, where he was introduced to technologies designed to address environmental pollution.

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Russia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons
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Russia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons

UN conference this month seen as key moment after years of discussions on filling gap in governance of AI systems Plans to fill a gap in the global governance of autonomous weapons are in jeopardy as a group of nations led by Russia and the US move to use a UN conference this month to block proposals to negotiate a legally binding set of rules. The scale of the opposition will become clear at a diplomatic retreat starting on Friday ahead of the seventh review conference on “certain conventional weapons” in Geneva due to be attended by 128 countries from 16 to 20 November.

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Nigel Farage's exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. But there’s a sobering side to this story
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Nigel Farage's exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. But there’s a sobering side to this story

Nigel Farage's exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the price Nigel Farage has been writing columns for the Daily Telegraph since 2016, most of which have promoted the previously Brexit and now Reform UK party he leads, or accused his rivals of going soft on immigration.

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Africa risks losing digital sovereignty to global tech firms – DPC Executive Director
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Africa risks losing digital sovereignty to global tech firms – DPC Executive Director

The Executive Director of the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Dr Arnold Kavaarpuo, has urged African countries to take control of their data to protect their digital sovereignty. The lecture was attended by the Deputy Rector of GIMPA, Prof. Ebenezer Adaku, who chaired the event; the Dean of SOTSS, Prof. Emmanuel Sarkodie Adabor; and the Dean of Students, Prof. Augustina Akonnor.

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Compensation Panel Details Sh96.9mn Payout to Protest Victims
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Compensation Panel Details Sh96.9mn Payout to Protest Victims

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 6 – The Panel of Experts on Compensation of Victims of Human Rights Violations has processed 157 verified claims valued at Sh96.95 million under Phase VII of its compensation programme. Chairperson and Principal Coordinator Prof. Makau Mutua reaffirmed the Panel’s commitment to ensuring that all eligible victims receive fair consideration.

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Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?
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Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?

Tech barons cozied up to Trump. Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump’s inauguration – Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, front row and side by side – now looks like a hitlist for a blue Congress hellbent on making life difficult for billionaires.

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