@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is planning to
👉use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations,
according to U.S. Department of Transportation records
and interviews with six agency staffers.
The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,”
agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues.
The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI to…
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I wrote up a set of answers to a UK government consultation on 'Energy Smart Appliances' https://www.gov.uk/government/consult…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule (Jesse Coburn/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artifi…
@cdarwin@c.imCrypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto...
So why are crypto prices plummeting?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-28/the-crypt…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…
@almad@fosstodon.orgEU digitally resigned. We’re done here, we can just go join our American overlords apparently
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-police-world-digital-tech-us-china-regulations/
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialBursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says:
Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.
The US threatened to restrict some of the largest service providers in the European Union as retaliation for EU tech regulations and investigations are increasingly drawing Donald Trump’s ire. […]
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialOver the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/trump-administra…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJustice Department weighs rollback of gun regulations (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/19/trump-justice-department-gun-regulations-atf/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p101#a260119p101
@cdarwin@c.imThe Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from MAGA gun nuts
Some of the changes are expected to ease restrictions on the private sale of guns and loosen regulations on shipping firearms.
Other changes to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regulations under consideration would change the types of firearms that can be imported and make licensing fees refundable.
Officials are also expected to c…
@mapto@qoto.org“If the market can keep the faith to persist, it buys the necessary time for the technology to mature, for the costs to come down, and for companies to figure out the business model,” Wu said. But US “companies can end up underwater if AI grows fast but less rapidly than they hope for,” he suggested.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEuropean Commission ‘simplification’ proposal would weaken GDPR, AI regulations https://therecord.media/european-commission-proposal-gdpr-ai-simplification
@cdarwin@c.imThe European Commission on Wednesday unveiled new proposals to ease regulations on AI and data privacy.
The EU has for years sought to rein in tech companies on various issues,
but is also attempting to balance this with the need to compete with tech firms in the United States and East Asia.
"Europe has not so far reaped the full benefits of the digital revolution,"
EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said.
"And we cannot afford to pay the …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/ai-super-pac-anthropic.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialSpent the morning deal with the US Gov't - sheesh.
We had to update our SAM registration - most people have never had to deal with the US Gov't's procurement system and dueling systems of regulations (FARs vs DFARs), not to mention its decades obsolete industrial and product classification codes. What a mess!!! What a massive burden for a small company!! (And, of course, the Feds update things in disruptive ways.)
Then I had to deal with renewing my passport and ha…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSeems like the funeral industry in Korea has failed to meet its cybersecurity requirements. Gotta wonder if this is true everywhere. (not that most organizations aren't bad at cyber -- they are -- but haven't read much about the funeral industry).
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115570988875664622
It's so great that we just changed regulations to allow investment funds to hitch their wagon to this mangy horse
@servelan@newsie.social"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…
@jensilber@mastodon.socialIt might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-rule-restores-equal-protection-all-civil-rights-enforcement
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialAt an undetermined point in the future, the Commission intends to establish requirements that align uni- bidirectional charging capabilities with relevant grid codes and communication protocols, as is already required for charging infrastructure.
https://single-market-economy.ec.e…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFCC spikes Biden-era cyber regulations prompted by Salt Typhoon telecom breaches https://therecord.media/fcc-removes-biden-era-cybersecurity-rules-telecoms-salt-typhoon
@UP8@mastodon.social💊 Vålerenga call for anti-doping changes after artificial pitch causes footballer to fail drug test
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footb…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Fuzzbox:
🎵 Rules And Regulations
#Fuzzbox
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VVvIL9IHjux3MiJ3ew5ZV
@axbom@axbom.me @memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition) (10 Jan 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p55#a260110p55
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… let me just skate by these government regulations
(LEGAL DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A JOKE)
@marcel@waldvogel.familyThe #glyphosate study published in 2000, on which probably most glyphosate regulations are based, has been retracted.
1️⃣ There are indications that #Monsanto (the manufacturer of #Roundup,…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s “pay-to-play” governing and fundraising style is helping forge a new gilded age
where many super rich donors to Trump’s Maga Inc Pac and other top Trump causes are reaping big political and financial gains,
including lax regulations, federal contracts and other benefits, say scholars and analysts.
The transactional style of the US president has been a financial boon to cryptocurrency, AI and fossil fuel interests, among others,
which have showered seven…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/economy/us-eu-tech-penalties.html
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI really wish these people had a single original thought in their heads rather than looking around the Anglosphere for whatever anti-freedom policies have recently been implemented and saying "we need that, but stricter, and somehow providing tax dodges for several private corporations in the process" https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US has paused a tech trade deal with the UK, signed in September, over disagreements about the UK's digital regulations and food safety rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/business/economy/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIs diesel behind the US takeover of Venezuela?
Diesel is the main fuel used in road transport, mining and quarrying, and agriculture. Fuel oil is used in shipping but with the regulations of 2020 on sulphur emissions, it is closer to diesel in character and this in turn impacts on the scarcity of diesel.
The US has to import the crude oil to make diesel. Its own crude is too light
Venezuela's oil is very heavy.
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialFor a work thing, I have to consult potential EU regulations covering advanced machine-learning algorithms.
Most of the resources I find, reek of longtermism...
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialManchester’s Local Plan is available in draft.
You've til 17 Nov to respond.
Our post gives you the links to the plan and consultantation, AND our draft response that you can use as a template for yours!
In summary, the council is constrained by planning regulations but they could still do much better.
Tell them!
#Manchester
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen I see people arguing that fireworks are fine because it's "tradition" and "just one day a year" (yeah, sure), I feel like asking: if shooting people were a "tradition" and happened only "one day a year", would that be okay too? But then I recall that hunters do precisely that, and apparently "we can't" impose stricter regulations on them.
#Poland
@Techmeme@techhub.socialxAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week claiming that xAI had been skirting regulations and more (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/engineer-at-elon-m
@seeingwithsound@mas.to[OT] Andrew Ng warns AI far from general intelligence amid overhype https://www.webpronews.com/andrew-ng-warns-ai-far-from-general-intelligence-amid-overhype/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@UP8@mastodon.social⚒️ Abandoned coal mine drainage identified as a significant source of carbon emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-abandoned-coal-drainage-significant-source.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFive-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release
https://cyberscoop.com/trump-national-cybersecurity-strategy-2025-release/
@lilmikesf@c.imMore than a dozen states including New York, California and Delaware prohibit the reporting of #medicaldebt on a consumers’ #credit report.
The #Drumpf administration is coming for
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Plastic
@servelan@newsie.social"The bill would give antitrust protections to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), pre-empting state regulations on the issue, and clarify nationwide that student athletes are not employees, precluding many labor rights and limiting their ability to profit off their name, image, and likeness."
House GOP forced to cancel vote on new Trump bill - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/score-act/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/82…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the
💥cancer risk 💥from chemicals,
one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
Last week, in a highly unusual move,
👉the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach
in announcing that it is revi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-executive-order-ai-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p65#a251208p65
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social10 million 🔋🚗🚛🚌vehicles on Europe's roads could become an important societal resource, if fit regulation is in place.
My new infographic for Regulatory Assistance Project offers recommendations to 🇪🇺 Member States on how to create a healthy ecosystem for #V2G to scale up.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards,
significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.
It marks the US president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and federal support for cleaner-running vehicles and renewable energy.
Burning gasoline is a significant contributor to global heating and transportation is the largest source of greenho…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/economy/us-eu-tech-penalties.html<…
@primonatura@mstdn.social @newsie@darktundra.xyzFCC plans vote to remove cyber regulations installed after theft of Trump info from telecoms https://therecord.media/fcc-plans-vote-rescind-biden-era-ruling-telecoms-cyber
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/now-tech-moguls-w
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/ai-preemption-push-stalls-trump-pressure
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCarney is a carbon industry plant.
nothing says environmental “blank cheque” to industry like: “voluntary certification program”.
"But operators have another compliance option, which some may find controversial because it could give industry players some more leeway. Operators can design their own approaches, providing a facility meets "methane intensity thresholds" that are on par with standards from "leading international voluntary certification programs.””
That's what private forest companies (Mosaic) on Vancouver Island use to claim they are following ‘best practices' as they clear cut whole sides of mountains and leave a 10m ‘riparian zone' around streams while falling trees right over them.
It's a license to make up their own rules and do whatever they want, wider impacts be damned.
#ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Carbon #Methane #Emissions #Oil #Gas
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolo…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Technology
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-eases-regulation…
@cdarwin@c.imUsing language about “rioters” at federal facilities, the Trump administration is fast-tracking the rule changes
— which critics say DHS could use as a pretext to go after protesters wearing frog costumes or making a racket on the streets of Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
The new regulations could empower the ⚠️Federal Protective Service,
a little-known police force under DHS tasked with securing federal facilities,
to pursue more arrests outside of federal property it…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump's AI EO directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding for states that introduce "burdensome" AI regulations (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/11/trump-executive-ord…
@cdarwin@c.imCrypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
“Bitcoin and other crypto assets are once again demonstrating that they are among some of the first assets to decline among broader economic uncertainty,” the indispensable crypto observer Molly White wrote in March
ht…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJensen Huang warns "China is going to win the AI race", after the US kept a ban on high-end AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by "cynicism" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53295276-ba8d-4ec2-b0de-081e73b3ba43
@cdarwin@c.imAcquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caSteven Guilbeault lays out the truth. Canada will not reach its climate targets.
““[Carney] thinks we’ll be able to do this with the market, with private investment. Of course, we have to do that, but I also think we need to have regulations in place to ensure that we achieve the goals we have set for ourselves. And by abandoning many of these measures, that becomes impossible.
“I mean, if we are honest with Canadians, we can no longer achieve our targets for 2030 with the announcements that have been made recently. It’s not possible.””
... he goes on to say Danielle Smith is (effectively) Donald Trump.
"“In my opinion, she is not a reliable partner in this negotiation.””
It is now abundantly clear that the Liberal Party and all Canadians really did lose something when Mark Carney became Prime Minister.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ABPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-guilbeault-carney-9.6998944
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dydlmenvro
