Sun 09 November 2025: Google will enforce a new Android developer verification policy next year to tighten app publishing rules on its Play Store, following findings that apps installed from outside the official store contained 50 times more malware, according to an August report. The company said in August that it would transition to the new policy to […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: The hope of the world wide web, according to its creator Tim Berners-Lee, was that it would make communication easier, bring knowledge to all, and strengthen democracy and connection. Instead, it seems to be driving us apart into increasingly small and angry splinter groups. Why? We have commonly blamed online echo chambers, digital […]
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Thu 06 November 2025: YouTube has quietly erased more than 700 videos and shut down the accounts of three major Palestinian human rights organizations, a report by The Intercept on Tuesday shows, Anadolu reports. The deleted accounts belonged to Al‑Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, all of which posted […]
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Thu 06 November 2025: Kyrgyzstan has officially issued its first stablecoin, USDKG, becoming the country’s first state-owned digital asset. The Finance Ministry said on Thursday the new stablecoin is pegged to the US dollar at a 1:1 exchange rate and backed by gold. The launch cost the state budget 438,480.75 soms (about $37), according to figures […]
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Thu 06 November 2025: Google has revealed ambitions to construct AI data centers beyond Earth’s atmosphere, with initial test hardware slated for launch into orbit as early as 2027. “Instead of transmitting power to Earth from space, we propose a future that includes spacebased ML “data centers” consisting of many solarpowered satellites networked via free-space […]
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Tue 04 November 2025: An investigation by several European media outlets revealed Tuesday that hundreds of millions of location data points from mobile phones in Belgium, including those belonging to employees of EU institutions, NATO headquarters, and military bases, are being sold by data brokers. The joint investigation by L’Echo, Le Monde, German public broadcasters […]
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Sun 02 November 2025: Amazon deliberately planned to keep the public unaware of the full extent of its data centers’ water use, according to a leaked internal document. Amazon, the world’s largest data center operator, is rapidly expanding its AI operations despite concerns about the water needed to cool its facilities. Although it has taken […]
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Fri 31 October 2025: Top U.S. tech firms are ramping up AI investments to seize the booming market that’s propelled stocks to record highs, according to Thursday media reports. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said its capital expenditures for 2025 are projected to be between $70 billion and $72 billion, up from […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Earlier this year, the consumer watchdog fined three retailers, Michael Hill, MyHouse and Hairhouse Online, almost A$20,000 each for advertising “site-wide discounts” that allegedly never applied to all items on the website. At first glance, this might look like a straightforward case of using allegedly misleading advertising for an economic benefit. Yet […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: When Google and Amazon negotiated a massive $1.2bn cloud computing deal in 2021 with the Israeli government, a secret arrangement known as the “winking mechanism” was included, according to a new joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call. The secret warning system obligates the companies to […]
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