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Acquiring 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…

FCC 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

For a work thing, I have to consult potential EU regulations covering advanced machine-learning algorithms.
Most of the resources I find, reek of longtermism...

When 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

Towards Verifiable Federated Unlearning: Framework, Challenges, and The Road Ahead
Thanh Linh Nguyen, Marcela Tuler de Oliveira, An Braeken, Aaron Yi Ding, Quoc-Viet Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00833

Towards Verifiable Federated Unlearning: Framework, Challenges, and The Road Ahead
Federated unlearning (FUL) enables removing the data influence from the model trained across distributed clients, upholding the right to be forgotten as mandated by privacy regulations. FUL facilitates a value exchange where clients gain privacy-preserving control over their data contributions, while service providers leverage decentralized computing and data freshness. However, this entire proposition is undermined because clients have no reliable way to verify that their data influence has be…

"Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks"
#Mexico #Sharks #Animals

Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks
Mexico recently adopted national regulations protecting several threatened shark species in the Atlantic from being caught or retained as bycatch. Shark conservationists welcome the protections but say they are long overdue, coming years after the country’s commitments to a multilateral fishery regulator. Mexican fisheries catch a significant number of various shark species in the Atlantic […]

China'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

Artificial intelligence: China plans rules to protect children and tackle suicide risks
The draft regulations are aimed to address concerns around chatbots, which have surged in popularity in recent months.

FPF Releases Issue Brief on New CCPA Regulations for Automated Decisionmaking Technology, Risk Assessments, and Cybersecurity Audits
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-issue-brief-on-new-cc…

Crypto 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…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

EU 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/

Brussels is done being the world’s digital policeman
The “Brussels Effect” is dead. Now Washington is setting the pace on deregulation in Europe.

I 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://

Bursting 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. […]
🤖

Bursting 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.

“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…

More 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

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt
The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted an interpretative rule related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. This rule suggests that the FCRA should preempt state laws on debt reporting to credit bureaus like Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. This repeals Biden-era regulations allowing states to implement their own credit reporting bans. More than a dozen states, incl…

Crypto 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…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

Steven 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

“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.

Bursting 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.

Over 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…

Nice to know that there are no regulations against demolition of the entire White House
"agency does not have jurisdiction over demolition or site preparation work for buildings on federal property."
Part of the White House East Wing is being torn down to build Trump's ballroom : NPR
https://share.google/DfMR3TiZ…

Diese Arbeit von Janna H. Schulte an der #TUHH setzt sich mit den Stellplatzsatzungen in SH auseinander und bringt wichtige Punkte hervor:
- die Datenlage ist schwach
- Stellplatzsatzungen werden nicht sinnvoll hergeleitet
- Stellplatzsatzungen behindern Fortschritte im Verkehr
- Privatparkplätze werden aus Angst einer Überflutung des öffentlichen Raums gefordert, aber tatsächlich…

Pkw-Stellplatzpflicht im Wohnungsbau: Hebel oder Hemmnis für Mobilitätswende und lebenswerte Städte?
In Germany, minimum parking requirements regulate by law that a certain number of parking spaces have to be provided for new construction developments almost nationwide. This paper examines to which extent the requirements in residential construction hinder or (prospectively) promote the mobility transition towards sustainable, car-independent mobility. Based on a literature review and a case study of Schleswig-Holstein, it is shown that the regulations have so far hindered the mobility transit…

The 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 …

EU proposes softening AI and data privacy regulations
The EU is responding to calls by businesses and member states that have argued the bloc needs to keep up with tech innovation. Meanwhile, cookie consent pop-up banners are also set to be scaled back.

A 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

Spent 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…

RE: 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

Sources: 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

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.

It 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

Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded in the principle of equal treatment under the law by eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations.

At 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…

European Commission ‘simplification’ proposal would weaken GDPR, AI regulations https://therecord.media/european-commission-proposal-gdpr-ai-simplification

"EU aims to curb plastic pollution with new rules targeting nightmare spills of tiny pellets"
#EU #EuorpeanUnion #Plastic

EU aims to curb plastic pollution with new rules targeting nightmare spills of tiny pellets
EU takes aim at tiny plastic pellet pollution with new regulations

💊 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…

Vålerenga call for anti-doping changes after artificial pitch causes footballer to fail drug test
Vålerenga have called for anti-doping regulations to be strengthened after a player in their women’s team was found to have ingested a banned stimulant from rubber crumb in a pitch

Trump 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

@… let me just skate by these government regulations
(LEGAL DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A JOKE)

Sources: 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…

Five-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release
https://cyberscoop.com/trump-national-cybersecurity-strategy-2025-release/

Five-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release
Trump administration plans January 2026 release of a six-part national cybersecurity strategy, focusing on deterrence, regulations, workforce, procurement, infrastructure, and emerging technologies.

The #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,…

Research in Collaborative Learning Does Not Serve Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Practice
Kevin Kuo, Chhavi Yadav, Virginia Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12595 https://

Research in Collaborative Learning Does Not Serve Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Practice
Cross-silo federated learning (FL) is a promising approach to enable cross-organization collaboration in machine learning model development without directly sharing private data. Despite growing organizational interest driven by data protection regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA, the adoption of cross-silo FL remains limited in practice. In this paper, we conduct an interview study to understand the practical challenges associated with cross-silo FL adoption. With interviews spanning a diverse …

"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/

The 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

U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits.

FCC spikes Biden-era cyber regulations prompted by Salt Typhoon telecom breaches https://therecord.media/fcc-removes-biden-era-cybersecurity-rules-telecoms-salt-typhoon

#NorthDakota 's "low population, energy resources, cold climate and lax business regulations" attract data centers according to InForum
http…

Data centers are sprouting across North Dakota. How many are there and where will the next ones be planted?
The existing facilities that power AI and cryptocurrency will consume more power than what's generated by the Hoover dam alone, contributing to a demand that's expected to grow in coming years.

Sources: 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…

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block
The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

Manchester’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

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
UPDATE!  11 Nov.  We have now submitted a revised version.  It adds some answers to questions we didn’t address in the previously published draft, and has some additions to some of the other …

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Trump Pardon of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao Is Rewriting Crypto History
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Fuzzbox:
🎵 Rules And Regulations
#Fuzzbox
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VVvIL9IHjux3MiJ3ew5ZV

Hybrid Horizons: Policy for Post-Quantum Security
Anais Jaikissoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02317 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02317

Hybrid Horizons: Policy for Post-Quantum Security
The Age of Artificial Intelligence is here. In 2025, there are few regulations governing artificial intelligence. While the expansion of artificial intelligence is going in a relatively good direction, there is a risk that it can be misused. Misuse of technology is nothing new and will continue to happen. The lack of regulation in artificial intelligence is necessary because it raises the question of how we can move forward without knowing what the limits are. While artificial intelligence domi…

⚒️ Abandoned coal mine drainage identified as a significant source of carbon emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-abandoned-coal-drainage-significant-source.html

Abandoned coal mine drainage identified as a significant source of carbon emissions
For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has contributed to climate change. Additionally, unremediated mines—especially those that operated before Congress passed regulations in 1977—have leaked environmentally harmful mine drainage. But that might not be the end of their legacy.

Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

"Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act"
#US #USA #America #Animals <…

The Trump administration is dismantling the last of the public commons.
It’s cutting billions to state programs tracking disease,
repealing emissions and drinking water regulations,
revoking hundreds of millions in funding for life-saving research,
canceling local food programs for schools and food banks,
rolling back vaccinations,
and shutting down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Commi…

“Make America Healthy Again” Aims to Make Public Health Your Private Responsibility
The message coming from the Trump administration is: “Take care of yourselves — because we won’t.”…

Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (Niki Kitsantonis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/business/europe-st…

Hoping to Grow in Europe, but Bogged Down by Red Tape
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.

UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search and advertising and will begin consultation on potential new regulations later in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google

Google search, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover designated for UK regulation
Google search has formally been designated with "strategic market status" by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Trump 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…

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the 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.

10 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.

How to scale V2G in Europe | Jaap Burger
New publication on vehicle-to-grid (#V2G)! Electric vehicles can do much more than just transport people or goods from one place to another. Through smart, bidirectional charging, EV batteries can become an important societal resource. With well over 10 million battery-electric cars, vans and buses already on Europe’s roads, the usable capacity of these mobile batteries is enormous. However, energy regulations are not always ready for these mobile batteries feeding in. Temporary deviations …

Deciphering Invariant Feature Decoupling in Source-free Time Series Forecasting with Proxy Denoising
Kangjia Yan, Chenxi Liu, Hao Miao, Xinle Wu, Yan Zhao, Chenjuan Guo, Bin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05589

Deciphering Invariant Feature Decoupling in Source-free Time Series Forecasting with Proxy Denoising
The proliferation of mobile devices generates a massive volume of time series across various domains, where effective time series forecasting enables a variety of real-world applications. This study focuses on a new problem of source-free domain adaptation for time series forecasting. It aims to adapt a pretrained model from sufficient source time series to the sparse target time series domain without access to the source data, embracing data protection regulations. To achieve this, we propose …

A 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

QPADL: Post-Quantum Private Spectrum Access with Verified Location and DoS Resilience
Saleh Darzi, Saif Eddine Nouma, Kiarash Sedghighadikolaei, Attila Altay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03631

QPADL: Post-Quantum Private Spectrum Access with Verified Location and DoS Resilience
With advances in wireless communication and growing spectrum scarcity, Spectrum Access Systems (SASs) offer an opportunistic solution but face significant security challenges. Regulations require disclosure of location coordinates and transmission details, exposing user privacy and anonymity during spectrum queries, while the database operations themselves permit Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. As location-based services, SAS is also vulnerable to compromised or malicious users conducting spoo…

Trump 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…

A 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…

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

Sources 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

Trump's push to overrule state AI regulations stalls
His calls to block state-level AI regulation are falling short on Capitol Hill.

SBOMproof: Beyond Alleged SBOM Compliance for Supply Chain Security of Container Images
Jacopo Bufalino, Mario Di Francesco, Agathe Blaise, Stefano Secci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05798

SBOMproof: Beyond Alleged SBOM Compliance for Supply Chain Security of Container Images
Supply chain security is extremely important for modern applications running at scale in the cloud. In fact, they involve a large number of heterogeneous microservices that also include third-party software. As a result, security vulnerabilities are hard to identify and mitigate before they start being actively exploited by attackers. For this reason, governments have recently introduced cybersecurity regulations that require vendors to share a software bill of material (SBOM) with end users or…

Elon 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

The 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<…

U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits.

Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/15/new-macbook-pro-lacks-charger-in-europe/

New MacBook Pro Does Not Include a Charger in the Box in Europe
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy,...

Modeling and Managing Temporal Obligations in GUCON Using SPARQL-star and RDF-star
Ines Akaichi, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Sabrina Kirrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04652

Modeling and Managing Temporal Obligations in GUCON Using SPARQL-star and RDF-star
In the digital age, data frequently crosses organizational and jurisdictional boundaries, making effective governance essential. Usage control policies have emerged as a key paradigm for regulating data usage, safeguarding privacy, protecting intellectual property, and ensuring compliance with regulations. A central mechanism for usage control is the handling of obligations, which arise as a side effect of using and sharing data. Effective monitoring of obligations requires capturing usage trac…

Using 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…

Trump’s Federal Cops Just Gave Themselves Expansive Anti-Protest Powers Targeting Masks
The Trump administration’s new rules grant the Federal Protective Service cops powers to target masks and make arrests off federal property.

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends
and what it all means

The Supreme Courtsaid on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case
and consider striking down a strict regulation on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.
Trump’s administration had urged the justices to take the case.
The court will consider Hawaii’s law that bans guns on private property,
including businesses like stores and hotels,
unless the owner has specifically allowed them verbally or with a sign.

Supreme Court will consider overturning strict Hawaii gun law
The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that found people have a right to carry firearms in public under the Second Amendment. The Hawaii law bans guns on private property unless the owner has specifically allowed them. The law also prohi…

Trump'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…

Trump defies GOP critics by signing controversial order threatening states over AI laws
Trump’s latest executive order attempts to punish states that regulate artificial intelligence technology, a policy that has triggered division in the GOP.

Carney 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

Jensen 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

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says China ‘will win’ AI race with US
CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres