But the law is very limited. You have to be certified by two doctors as only having 6 months left to live. You then have to start to start a bureaucratic battle with the government to get their permission and that of a 'panel of experts' which knowing our government will takes months. You have then have to wait another month to make sure you don't change your mind. And then and only then will you be prescribed the medication which you have to be physcially capable of administering yourself. There will be many many cases of people wanting this who will not be able to get it, e.g. MND, or too weak to fight the system to obtain it. I see this as a start but access will need to broaden.

I'm sure it does something but the only difference I've noticed so far is the response "do you want me to use chat gpt to answer that?" which does sometimes answer that, sometimes satisfactorily.

Not globally just within the EU. In general, a business operating in one EU country is not allowed to refuse to serve customers from other EU countries or to sell to them on different terms. That is one of the chief principles of the single market.

Indeed, when I first took out YouTube Premium I cancelled Spotify at the same time, because obviously I no longer needed it, so in my mind I was really just paying £3 a month for no ads which IMO is great value. Nowadays the price difference between Spotify and YouTube is only £1 a month. If you don't want a music service the value proposition would be different. I do wish they would unbundle the music service form the ad-free service. If they sold ad-free for like £3 a month I'm sure they would attract many more subscribers and become less dependent on ad money which would be good for everybody.

They are talking about Apple Pay and other similar services. The business never gets your actual card number.. What Mastercard are talking about is rolling out the ability to pay via these methods to every website instead of largely just apps and contactless terminals as now. Visa made a similar announcement last month.

Yeah but for how long. Mozilla is 80% funded by Google. They could turn the screws if they wanted.

I can't find this interview anywhere but I'm nearly certain he refers to tokenised payments which significantly reduce the risk of fraud and therefore your payments are less likely to be declined and hence 'work better' - mainly a US problem, I think. There is no question data will be shared without your consent. For one it's totally illegal here (in the UK) and the rest of Europe and second the article states all consents can be managed and revoked from within your banking app.

The difficulty for services like Facebook for which you do not pay money is that paying by consenting to personalised ads is not allowed. Internet services are simply not allowed to offer you anything for consenting over and above that offered to those who do not consent, despite the consent having value to the company. Their current business model is not really viable. They will ultimately have to offer a very basic free service with low value unpersonalised ads and build a compelling premium service, probably with multiple tiers, for which you pay money. Obviously this model does already work very well for many smaller services but time will tell if this can actually be made to work at Facebook's scale and without regulatory intervention on social inclusion.

The most controversial risk will be that of minors accessing their websites at all. They will be required to prevent it. There is no particular mandate on how, and I expect it will be fought in court, but ultimately their sites will be blocked in the EU except to those willing to give up their anonymity (or use a VPN).

Well you say that but MacOS is not really free, you can only get it (legitimately) bundled with Apple hardware. Hard to quantify the price you are paying for MacOS because of that but it is not free any more than the pre-installed version of Windows on new hardware is free. Ubuntu LTS extended support costs $25 per year for a single workstation after 5 years and so would cost $125 for the same 10 years included support you get with Windows, after which you would be forced to upgrade. All 3 offer free upgrades to the newest version.

I use a Linux OS but not because of this. Microsoft will have supported Windows 10 for 10 years, and offer either a free upgrade to Windows 11 or paid support beyond that. The oldest supported version of MacOS is less than 3 years old. Ubuntu LTS versions are supported for 5 years for free or 10 years paid. There are many things Microsoft can be criticised for but the length of support they offer on Windows is not one of them.

Booths is a small regional chain that most people here (in the UK) have never heard of. All of the big chains are expanding their use of self-checkouts. Where I shop you can even get a hand scanner which lets you scan the items as you go around, when you get to the self-checkouts (for which there is never any queue) you just scan the barcode on the till, it finds the transaction and you pay. That's it. If you're buying age restricted products you do still need a staff member to approve it but there is an ongoing trial with age estimation technology which should eliminate that for people over 25. Quite honestly if they made us go back to the old days of queuing 5 or 10 minutes for a human to scan everything I would shop elsewhere.

Magnus has been beaten by other youngsters like Alireza, Pragg and so on. Heâ(TM)s never felt the need to accuse them of anything, in fact heâ(TM)s usually full of praise for their performances. Niemannâ(TM)s history of prolific online cheating along with finding an unlikely line in his game against Magnus is what drove the suspicion. Consequently FIDE have introduced stricter fair play measures at top tournaments and so perhaps there will be less cause for suspicion in future, especially toward those, like Niemann, who have damaged their reputations.

This Regulation lays down the conditions and procedures for the automated searching of DNA profiles, dactyloscopic data, facial images, police records, and certain vehicle registration data and driving licence data, and the rules regarding the exchange of core data following a confirmed match.

For the prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offences, and for the search of missing persons and to facilitate the identification of unidentified human remains, Member States shall allow national contact points of other Member States and Europol access to the facial images reference data stored in their national databases, to conduct automated searches by comparing facial images reference data.

https://www.statewatch.org/med...

Not sure if your comment was meant sarcastically but the EU absolutely are planning to do the same thing on an international basis, look-up Pruem II.There is talk the UK could participate in this treaty as well. The EU are banning real time facial recognition searches but this legislation relates to searches using photographs/video from an established crime scene.