Anthropic Opposes Senate-Backed AI Liability Bill Backed by OpenAI
Anthropic has publicly opposed Illinois Senate Bill 3444, a liability shield for AI developers that OpenAI backs. The dispute highlights a growing rift between the two labs over how frontier AI should be regulated and who should bear responsibility for misuse.
The US Government Will Ask Data Centers How Much Power They Use
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will roll out a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers to capture detailed energy‑use data, following a letter to Senators Warren and Hawley. A pilot phase is already underway in Texas, Washington state, and...
Isle of Man Wants to Turn Datasets Into Balance-Sheet Assets
The Isle of Man has introduced a Data Asset Foundation (DAF), a statutory legal structure that lets companies register curated datasets as formal property assets. Once entered into a DAF, data can be listed on balance sheets, used as collateral,...
New EU Entry-Exit System Causing up to Three-Hour Delays, Say Airports
The EU’s new Entry‑Exit System (EES) went live across Schengen states on 10 April, and airports in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and others are reporting queues of up to three hours. The Airports Council International (ACI) warned the delays could...
ZeroEyes Expands Detection Capabilities with ZeroLink Offering
ZeroEyes unveiled ZeroLink, a new offering that extends its AI‑driven gun‑detection platform to off‑network locations and adds analytics for knives, vehicles, human intrusions, and abandoned objects. The company says the knife‑detection model focuses on longer blades, a segment driving most...
GDS Local: Building the Foundations for Digital Collaboration
Britain’s Government Digital Service (GDS) Local released a new Local Government Architecture Model, establishing a shared technology reference for councils. It has conducted five workshops, monthly webinars averaging 60 attendees, and is exploring a free architecture‑mapping tool. GDS also piloted...
The EU’s E-Evidence Framework Goes Live in August and Most of Europe Isn’t Ready
The EU’s E‑Evidence Regulation (EU 2023/1543) becomes enforceable on August 18, 2026, allowing judicial authorities to issue Production and Preservation Orders that service providers must obey within ten days—or eight hours in emergencies. Only four member states have fully transposed the accompanying Directive,...
The Good, the Bad and the Unknown: The Future of AI in North Carolina
Leading scholars, policymakers and industry leaders gathered at UNC‑Chapel Hill to chart a responsible AI future for North Carolina. The university highlighted the urgent need for AI literacy in curricula as students already adopt generative tools. Speakers showcased AI’s promise...
Getac Expands Video Suite Platform with Evidence OnSite Mobile App to Capture Digital Evidence
Getac Technology Corporation launched the Evidence OnSite mobile app, a field‑ready companion to its Video Suite platform. The app lets law‑enforcement officers capture photos, video, audio and text notes on iOS or Android devices and upload them securely in real...
The Elephant in the Regulatory Enforcement Room: EU VAT and Customs Fraud
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office reported that organized crime stole about €45 billion (≈ $49.5 billion) in VAT and customs fraud in 2025, representing two‑thirds of the €67 billion (≈ $74 billion) total loss to EU budgets. The EPPO pursued 981 investigations and warned that the...
FMCSA Balancing the Scales for Fleets Challenging Bad Safer Data
On April 16, 2026, the FMCSA issued a sweeping overhaul of its DataQs system, creating a mandatory three‑stage appeals process for carriers contesting safety violations or crash records. States receiving Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program funding must open requests within...
CBP Preps Tariff Refund Portal for April 20 Launch
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will activate its dedicated IEEPA tariff refund portal, CAPE, on April 20 at 8 a.m. EDT. The system will allow importers to submit refund requests electronically, with 82% already signed up for e‑payments. CBP estimates about $127 billion...
Global E·dentity™ Expands Landmark CRADA with DHS & TSA, Powered by President Trump’s Visionary Leadership to Secure America’s National Identity...
Global e·dentity™ Inc., a service‑disabled veteran‑owned firm, announced an amendment (AM01) to its CRADA with DHS and TSA that adds a new Personally Identifiable Information phase focused on privacy‑first biometric digital ID development. The amendment extends the partnership, enabling the...
Telangana Launches Project Sanjeevani for Integrated Trauma Care on Highways
Telangana launched Project Sanjeevani, a pilot integrated trauma‑care and highway‑rescue system on a 251‑km stretch of NH‑44 between Hyderabad and Adilabad. The initiative, part of the ‘Arrive Alive’ Road Safety Week and the 99‑Day Action Plan, is being implemented by...
Colorado Legislature Sends ‘Advanced Transmission Technology’ Bill to Governor
Colorado lawmakers approved the Grid Optimization Act (HB 1081), directing the state public utilities commission to require Xcel’s Public Service Co., Black Hills Energy and Tri‑State to evaluate advanced transmission technologies in their biennial 10‑year transmission plans. The legislation defines...
AI-Guided Snakebot Unlocks Rolling Move that Doubles Speed per Unit Power
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have created an AI‑guided snake robot that can switch to a rolling gait, achieving roughly twice the travel speed per unit of power on flat surfaces. The system uses deep reinforcement learning and an observation...
USDA Relies on Century‑Old Metal Tube to Forecast Drought in Pacific Northwest
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service hydrologist Toby Rodgers used the historic Church Sampler metal tube in Washington’s Cascade Mountains to gauge snowpack and project summer water supplies. The low‑tech device, invented over a century ago, continues to underpin drought‑forecasting efforts...
InfoReg Calms Payroll Fears After Sage 360 Switch
The Information Regulator migrated its payroll from the legacy Persal system to Sage 360 on 1 April, assuring that the 15 April salaries for permanent staff were paid on time. The Public Servants Association raised alarms about pro‑rata bonuses, missing medical aid contributions,...
AI‑Driven Compliance Tools Redefine Crypto Regulation Landscape
Regulators worldwide are accelerating anti‑money‑laundering scrutiny, prompting crypto exchanges, DeFi protocols, wallets, bridges and DAOs to adopt AI‑driven compliance systems. The shift turns on‑chain surveillance into a live, algorithmic gatekeeper that decides which transactions pass and which are flagged.
Eliminating Silos in IT/OT Cybersecurity Is a Funding Challenge, Not a Technical One
Tom Guarente of Armis argues that the biggest obstacle to securing converged IT and OT environments is not technology but fragmented funding. While the White House’s Cyber Strategy for America calls for holistic protection of critical infrastructure, agencies remain stuck...
Maine to Put Brakes on Big Data Centers as AI Expansion Collides with Power Limits
Maine is set to become the first U.S. state to impose a statewide moratorium on large data center construction, barring permits for facilities that draw 20 megawatts or more until roughly October 2027. The bill, which still requires Governor Janet Mills' signature,...
Second Version of MoD’s £1bn-Plus Digital Services Framework to Double in Value and Expand to Other National Security Agencies
The UK Ministry of Defence’s Digital and IT Professional Services (DIPS) framework, launched in November 2023, is being refreshed as DIPS 2.0. The new eight‑year contract, starting 1 September 2027, is valued at £2.9 billion (≈$3.6 billion), roughly double the £1.44 billion (£360 million per year)...
Kenya Tightens Grip on Digital Lenders as CBK Approves 32 New Credit Providers
Kenya’s Central Bank announced in April 2026 that 32 new firms have been granted digital credit licences, raising the total of approved digital lenders to 227. The regulator stresses that only listed providers may legally offer loans, warning consumers against...
Ghana Secures EU Grant for ETCS Project
Ghana’s Railway Development Authority has secured a €20 million (≈$22 million) European Commission grant to install ETCS Level 1 signalling on the 97.6 km Tema‑Mpakadan line, the first phase of a planned 1,000‑km standard‑gauge railway. The line, built at a cost of $449 million, currently...
We Need to “Right-Size” AI Ambitions in UK, Microsoft VP Tells MPs
Microsoft’s UK vice‑president Hugh Milward testified before Parliament, warning that the country’s AI roadmap lacks clear direction and that the national power grid cannot support a 1‑gigawatt data centre today. He highlighted that without a reliable energy supply, ambitious AI...
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Were LaGuardia Runway Collision Alerts Tuned Down Before The Air Canada Collision? — [Roundup]
A retired FAA systems engineer disclosed that the ASDE‑X runway‑collision alert system uses adjustable time and distance parameters, known as safety cells, which are set individually at each airport. During development, the FAA and controller groups deliberately lowered these thresholds...
The Glasswing Paradox: Why AI’s Greatest Leap Is the Physical Document’s Greatest Comeback
Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing, featuring the Claude Mythos Preview AI model that can autonomously discover and exploit thousands of high‑severity zero‑day vulnerabilities across major software stacks. The company chose to keep the model private, warning that its capabilities could cause...
Telegraph – Child Safety Is the Smokescreen as the Nanny State Goes Digital
The UK House of Commons is set to decide between a blanket ban on social‑media use for under‑16s and granting ministers sweeping powers to impose age‑verification and internet‑curfew controls. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would enable digital ID checks...
California’s Middle Mile Fiber Network
California’s Middle‑Mile Broadband Initiative, funded with $3.25 billion under Senate Bill 156, has activated its first phase of a statewide fiber backbone. The network’s inaugural live customer is the Bishop Paiute Tribe, which will use the middle‑mile capacity to extend last‑mile service...
Impact-Oriented Evaluation of Smart City Projects
The new guide by Andreas Marx and co‑authors highlights the shortcomings of conventional smart‑city assessments that focus on technical roll‑out, user counts and simple cost‑benefit analysis. It argues that municipalities must shift to impact‑oriented evaluation that quantifies quality‑of‑life, social participation,...
Civil Society in Crisis Times: New Geographies of Governance in an Era of AI
The paper by Hardill, Milnes, Mills, and Jones examines how artificial intelligence reshapes governance across the UK, focusing on civil‑society organisations that advise citizens in Wales and England. It maps emerging geographies of digital transformation, highlighting the interplay between AI,...
Second AI System Deployed for Asylum Caseworkers to Be Deployed This Month as Ministers Vow ‘Decision-Makers Cannot Use the Tool...
The UK Home Office will roll out a second AI‑driven tool, Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS), to all asylum caseworkers this month. ACS analyses interview transcripts and produces concise summaries to aid decision‑makers, joining the already‑deployed Asylum Policy Search (APS) chat‑based...
Michigan’s New Bill Takes Aim at AI Employee Surveillance
Michigan’s Responsible AI Security for Employees (RAISE) Act would require employers to give written notice and obtain consent before deploying AI‑driven monitoring tools such as keystroke trackers, screen recorders, and facial‑recognition systems. The bill bans the use of automated decisions...
Cooling Becomes Strategic: Calyos Brings Passive Thermal Tech to Europe’s Defence Stack
Belgian startup Calyos, a spin‑off from space‑heat‑pipe technology, offers fully passive two‑phase cooling systems that can be manufactured entirely in Europe. The solution, selected by NATO’s DIANA programme, promises higher energy efficiency and resilience for data‑centres, e‑mobility and defence platforms...
A Fistful of Discretion: The UK’s DMCC After Two Years
Two years after the UK Competition and Markets Authority began enforcing the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC), the regulator has shown a measured approach that contrasts sharply with the EU’s more aggressive Digital Markets Act. The CMA’s most...
Only 16% of Businesses Are Fully Compliant with NIS2 Despite 2024 Compliance Deadline
A CyberSmart survey of 670 leaders across eight European countries found that only 16% feel fully compliant with the EU’s NIS2 directive, despite the October 2024 transposition deadline having passed. Budget constraints (20%) and lack of implementation guidance (16%) are the...
41% of Small Businesses “Not Ready to Comply” With Making Tax Digital Mandate, Xero Reveals
A Xero survey of 1,000 UK small businesses with revenues above £50,000 (≈ $63,500) shows that 41% are not ready for the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for IT) mandate that began on 6 April 2026. Another 28% are behind schedule...
European Users Step up Bid to Break Away From Big Tech
European lawmakers are pushing back against U.S. involvement in shaping the EU’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, fearing dilution of the continent’s tech‑sovereignty agenda. The German state of Schleswig‑Holstein has accelerated its plan to replace all Microsoft products...
Jordan Makes Digital ID Mandatory for Access to Public Services
Jordan’s parliament approved amendments to the civil status law that institutionalize a mandatory digital ID for all citizens accessing public and private services. The electronic ID, issued through Ministry‑approved platforms, will replace the paper national card and be required for...
American Airlines Deploys 20 Dormakaba Biometric Boarding Gates at Dallas Fort Worth
American Airlines has deployed 20 Dormakaba Argus Air XS eGates at Dallas‑Fort Worth International Airport, marking the carrier’s first large‑scale rollout of biometric boarding technology. The gates feature optional facial‑recognition modules designed to reduce identity‑theft risk and speed passenger flow. Dormakaba,...
Credas and Finity Partner to Automate Right to Work Checks for over 150,000 UK Workers Monthly
Credas Technologies has partnered with UK payroll platform Finity to embed its UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework into Finity’s system, automating right‑to‑work checks for more than 150,000 workers each month. The integration replaces manual document reviews with a...
U.S. Treasury Presses for Access to Anthropic’s Restricted ‘Claude Mythos’ AI Model
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, alongside Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, convened an emergency meeting with banking CEOs to discuss Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos AI model. The Treasury’s push for access underscores growing concerns that the model’s advanced vulnerability‑hunting capabilities could...
What Is a MiKaDiv Solution and How Does It Scale?
MiKaDiv compliance in Germany is an end‑to‑end operating model that governs how shareholder and dividend data are captured, structured, validated and delivered to the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern (BZSt) in XML format. Label emphasizes that a true MiKaDiv solution goes beyond...
George Forbes Named CIO of U.S. Department of Commerce, Steering Federal Tech Agenda
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced George Forbes as its new chief information officer. Forbes, a former Air Force deputy chief of staff for data and IT operations, will lead the bureau’s digital modernization. His appointment signals the administration’s focus...
DOE Allocates $160M to Secure Energy Systems as Cyber Threats Converge With Grid Modernization
The U.S. Department of Energy’s FY 2027 budget earmarks $160 million for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER). The funding will bolster protection of the nation’s energy grid, its supply chain, and nuclear assets while deploying rapid‑response experts...
‘No More Excuses’: Von Der Leyen Says EU Age Checking App Is Ready
The European Commission announced that its EU‑wide age verification app is technically ready and will be released to citizens in the coming weeks. The tool lets users prove their age via passport, national ID or trusted providers such as banks,...
Egypt, Yemen Deepen Digital Cooperation
Egyptian MCIT Minister Raafat Hendy met Yemeni ICT Minister Shadi Saleh Basurra to deepen digital cooperation. The dialogue focused on sharing Egypt’s experience in 5G rollout, e‑government platforms and digital postal services to aid Yemen’s telecom reconstruction. Senior officials from...
Ordnance Survey Works with Snowflake to Tackle Flood Risk
Ordnance Survey has teamed with Snowflake to launch Intelligent Flood Readiness, an AI‑driven model that blends building, deprivation and flood‑risk data to pinpoint vulnerable properties across England. The analysis reveals that 1.2 million people live outside existing flood‑protection schemes, with 68%...
KZN Schools Receive Connectivity, Digital Learning Tools
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a Cassava Technologies unit, has wired 45 public schools in Umlazi and Pinetown, KwaZulu‑Natal with at least 10 Mbps internet and a 500 GB fair‑use cap. The rollout is part of a national effort to connect 298 public‑service institutions,...
More Trolleybuses in Lyon with the New TB12 Line
Lyon has launched the first 5‑km segment of the TB12 "TramBus" line, featuring 12 stations between Part‑Dieu V. Merle and Kimmerling Genets. The project was backed by €2.84 million (about $3.1 million) of state funding and uses new Hess Lightram 19 articulated trolleybuses capable of...