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Rates of violence in TDSB schools have increased in recent years. Credit: TDSB, Author provided The most recent shooting involving a Toronto high school student this October highlighted a rising problem with gun violence in North American schools. In Canada's largest city, it raised alarms about how the crisis is getting worse and skewing younger. …

Elon Musk has assured the European Commission that Twitter will continue to abide by tough European rules on illegal online content policing now the social network has passed under his ownership, EU sources said on Monday.In a previously unreported exchange last week, Musk told Thierry Breton, the EU's industry chief, that he planned to comply with the region's Digital Services Act, which levies hefty fines on companies if they do not control illegal content.The self-described free speech absolutist agreed to hold a…

Hello, it’s Wednesday, Oct. 26, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:TOP STORIES Bass and Caruso on public safety and policingAlthough L.A. mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso have offered different visions on crime, public safety and policing in the lead-up to election day, in some ways they are not as far apart as they appear.Both have advocated for hiring more gang intervention workers, as well as investing in certain alternatives to policing, such as sending unarmed professionals to calls…

Roblox is an online gaming platform with a user base that features a high concentration of children.Image: Migual Lagoa (Shutterstock)Roblox, the online game that is massively popular amongst children, is facing the growing pains of moderation as it rolls out artificially intelligent bots to sweep the platform for unsavory content.If you don’t know about Roblox, I’m sure a kid in your life does. The appeal of the online world is twofold: Users can explore an open world as well as create their own games within Roblox.…

As online gaming platform Roblox confronts a lawsuit alleging it enabled a California girl's exploitation, its chief scientist said finding dangerous content in the company's virtual world is nothing like spotting it in video."It's such a challenge to moderate 3D," said Morgan McGuire in an interview at the Reuters Momentum conference in Austin on Tuesday. He had no comment on the recent lawsuit but said Roblox was built with safety and civility at the forefront.San Mateo, Calif.-based Roblox is deploying bots to patrol…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study finds that while most crime types declined across Canada and internationally as a result of the COVID-19 social restrictions, mental health-related incidents remained relatively stable, counter to claims that mental health related incidents increased across the nation as a result of the pandemic related restrictions.…

GABRIELLE VOINOT For Nano the creep of increased surveillance has personal resonance. She grew up in Albania as it lurched between different political regimes in the 1990s. Her father, a politician, opposed the party that was in power for part of that time. “It was a very difficult period for us, because we were all being watched,” she says. Her family suspected that the authorities had installed bugs in the walls of their home. But even in France, freedoms are fragile. “These past five years France has lived for much…