Published on: 2025-05-07 18:00:20
First Ofcom probe launched into suicide site exposed by BBC 3 hours ago Share Save Tony Smith and Angus Crawford BBC News Investigations Share Save BBC Joe Nihill took his own life after learning on the forum how to buy and use a toxic chemical A pro-suicide forum is under investigation by the UK's online regulator - its first using new powers under the Online Safety Act. The forum, which Ofcom has not named, is understood to be a site BBC News has been investigating for the last three years,
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If you live in a rural area of the UK, you may soon be able to use your phone for satellite calls, messages and other standard data use. On Tuesday, the nation's telecom regulator, Ofcom, proposed using direct-to-device satellite tech to connect people in the UK's "most rural and hard-to-reach places," like mountains and remote villages. Ofcom sees the tech complementing traditional networks, aiming to provide 100 percent mobile coverage in the UK. The regulator said the tech could also provide
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In Brief As duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the internet watchdog, Ofcom, said it has launched a new enforcement program focused on online storage and file-sharing services. The regulator said its evidence shows that file-sharing and file-storage services are “particularly susceptible” to being used for the sharing of image-based child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The enforcement programme will assess safety measures
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Prompting Large Language Models In Bash Scripts I’ve been experimenting with using LLMs locally for generating datasets to test Harper against. I might write a blog post about the technique (which I am grandiosely calling “LLM-assisted fuzzing”), but I’m going to make you wait. I’ve written a little tool called ofc that lets you insert Ollama into your bash scripts. I think it’s pretty neat, since it (very easily) lets you do some pretty cool things. For example, you can swa
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Ofcom, the U.K.’s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement the Online Safety Act (OSA) — the latest set of recommendations aim to support in-scope firms to meet legal obligations to protect women and girls from online threats like harassment and bullying, misogyny, and intimate image abuse. The government has said that protecting women and girls is a priority for its implementation of the OSA. Certain forms of (predominantly) misogynist ab
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