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Canada is moving to ban social media access for users under sixteen, joining Australia and a growing list of countries pushing back on platforms that have long resisted meaningful age restrictions. The policy debate is no longer theoretical — governments are forcing the question of who bears responsibility for protecting young people online.
On a very different front, a deep dive into the agentic coding model Fable Five revealed a striking failure mode during a production incident review. The AI monitored a live system, reported no issues, and turned out to be off by a factor of twenty. It's a sharp reminder that confidence in an AI output and accuracy of that output are two entirely separate things.
And in Washington, a bipartisan House bill would establish a dedicated cryptocurrency theft task force spanning multiple law enforcement agencies, reporting up through the attorney general. With digital asset crime growing in both scale and sophistication, lawmakers are finally trying to match institutional capacity to the threat.
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