After months of delays, New York City today began enforcing a law that requires employers using algorithms to recruit, hire or promote employees to submit those algorithms for an independent audit — and make the results public. The first of its kind in the country, the legislation — New York City Local Law 144 — […]
NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms goes into effect by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Nearly 70 IT security and privacy academics have added to the clamour of alarm over the damage the UK’s Online Safety Bill could wreak to, er, online safety unless it’s amended to ensure it does not undermine strong encryption. Writing in an open letter, 68 UK-affiliated security and privacy researchers have warned the draft legislation […]
Security researchers latest to blast UK’s Online Safety Bill as encryption risk by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Kentucky now requires that electric vehicle charging companies include Tesla’s charging plug if they want to secure federal funds from a state program to electrify highways, Reuters reports. The plan went into effect Friday, making Kentucky the first state to officially mandate Tesla’s charging technology. Texas and Washington have also shared plans that would require […]
Kentucky is the latest state to mandate Tesla’s charging plug by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
While the prospect of new factories and more jobs is good news for Mexico, the country and its Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) peers can harbor higher hopes when it comes to deep tech, a new report posits.
Deep tech in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to skyrocket by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Unless you’ve been on an extended digital detox this year, you can’t have missed how a certain flavor of AI hype has been accelerating down the tracks like a runaway train. But far from the viral buzz swirling around developments in generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, Konux, a Munch-based deep tech AI scale-up, […]
Konux gears up to scale its AI + IoT play for optimizing the railways by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Reddit has had a tumultuous month after announcing changes to its data API. In the last month, Reddit’s CEO gave interviews defending the company’s decision, the social network had fights with developers and moderators, and the platform saw a large number of subreddits going dark and later protesting in different ways. Given that the API […]
Reddit braces for life after API changes by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch