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The UK government is pushing ahead with plans to restrict social media access for children under sixteen, with Tech Minister Liz Kendall confirming a response to the public consultation will land this summer. The ambition is to have protections in place before the year is out, though the harder question of enforcement remains very much open.
Shifting from policy to pixels, altered photographs showing Joe Biden and Donald Trump alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping are circulating online, raising fresh concerns about the speed at which manipulated imagery spreads before anyone can catch it. Fact-checkers at AFP flagged the images, but by then the reach was already significant — a reminder that the correction rarely travels as far as the original.
And in the world of artificial intelligence and software development, a piece making the rounds explores how AI-assisted engineering is evolving beyond simple code suggestions into what researchers are calling agentic loops — systems that plan, execute, and revise with far less human hand-holding. Whether that represents progress or a new kind of risk depends entirely on who you ask.
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