Tue 25 November 2025: Beijing carries out emergency launch to relieve space station crew left without working return capsule. China has rushed to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to relieve three astronauts left on board the Tiangong space station without a passage to Earth. State broadcaster CCTV showed a Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft lifting […]
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Tue 25 November 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming Europe’s health sector, promising better patient care and reduced workforce pressure – but it’s being deployed without adequate safeguards for patients or health workers, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The analysis found that AI adoption, regulation, and funding in health […]
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Mon 24 November 2025: The UAE Cybersecurity Council has warned that nearly four in five travellers risk exposing their personal data when charging their mobile devices at unsafe public charging points. In a statement, the council said that using unsecured ports can lead to the theft of data and passwords or the installation of malware […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: Recent developments in United States tech and media have prompted concerns about media consolidation and its impact on free speech. The US government is pushing ByteDance to reduce its control over TikTok, with Oracle proposed to oversee the platform’s algorithm for national security reasons. Meanwhile, Skydance Media’s $8bn merger with Paramount […]
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Sat 22 November 2025: ‘Soon, you’ll no longer be able to use Facebook’, Meta said in messages it sent to young people ahead of the social media ban5 Meta will prevent Australians younger than 16 from accessing Facebook and Instagram from December 4, as Canberra prepares to enforce a sweeping new social media law that […]
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Fri 21 November 2025: Artificial intelligence is fast becoming part of the furniture. A decade after IBM’s Watson triumphed on “Jeopardy!,” generative AI models are in kitchens and home offices. People often talk about AI in science fiction terms, yet the most consequential change in 2025 may be its banal ubiquity. To appreciate how ordinary AI use […]
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Fri 21 November 2025: In China, 87 percent of people trust AI, compared with just 32 percent in the US, according to an Edelman poll. China’s public is far more trusting of artificial intelligence than their peers in the United States and other Western countries, a survey has found. In China, 87 percent of people […]
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Thu 20 November 2025: US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitoring body warned in an AFP interview. Peter Thorne is the deputy chair of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), a little-known but crucial UN-backed […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: A US federal judge has ruled that tech giant Meta is not a monopoly in the social networking market, dismissing an antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the company’s acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. Washington District Court Judge James Boasberg said the FTC failed to prove its […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: A widespread Cloudflare outage on November 18, disrupted access to several major online platforms including OpenAI, Twitter (X), Spotify, Canva, Calude and other big platforms leaving millions of users unable to connect. The incident highlights the critical role Cloudflare plays in powering the backbone of internet via its content delivery and […]
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