Sat 23 May 2026: SpaceX launched its most powerful Starship rocket to date Friday, marking another major test in the company’s efforts to develop spacecraft for future missions to the moon and Mars. The giant rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in the US state of Texas, carrying a batch of simulated Starlink satellites […]
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Sat 23 May 2026: A recent study finds that artificial intelligence is rapidly emerging as a new force shaping global trade and is contributing to Europe’s growing digital dependency. The study, published on Friday by Austrian international credit insurer Acredia in cooperation with Allianz Trade, shows that AI is not only transforming technologies but also […]
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Fri 22 May 2026: Meta has launched a wave of layoffs that will affect 10 percent of the company’s global workforce, representing about 8,000 people. The cuts, which began on Wednesday, are planned to occur in three waves, beginning at 4am local time for those affected, the Reuters news agency reported. Workers affected so far […]
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Tue 19 May 2026: Tech giant Meta recently announced a set of new features to give parents greater oversight of how their children use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Horizon. This follows the company’s announcement earlier this month that it is expanding age assurance checks to filter 13-to-17-year-old users into teen accounts in the United States and other countries, following Australia’s […]
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Mon 18 May 2026: Nearly 1 in 5 users aged 13 to 15 told Meta that they saw “nudity or sexual images on Instagram” that they didn’t want to view, according to a court filing. The document, made public on Friday as part of a federal lawsuit in California and reviewed by Reuters, includes portions […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Microsoft has dismissed the head of its Israeli subsidiary and several senior managers following an internal investigation into allegations that its cloud infrastructure was used to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, marking one of the most serious accountability crises to hit Big Tech in years. Alon Haimovich, […]
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Sat 16 May 2026: Pope Leo XIV has approved the creation of a new Vatican commission on artificial intelligence, according to a report by Vatican News on Saturday. Cardinal Michael Czerny confirmed the decision in a text after meeting with the pope on May 3. It says the decision was made because of “the development in recent decades […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: When players arrive in the US this year for their World Cup pre-tournament media shoot, they will each step into a scanning chamber to capture their precise body-part dimensions and create 3D, AI avatars. Why? Because even when you’re the biggest sport in the world, you can’t afford to stand still. […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram. Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has raised questions about its impact on user privacy and whether it will improve child safety on the platform. Instagram […]
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Sun 10 May 2026: An educational platform used by thousands of schools and universities has been partially restored following an international cyberattack that caused major chaos as students prepare for end-of-year exams. ShinyHunters, a hacking group, claimed responsibility for crashing the web-based educational platform Canvas, created by tech firm Instructure. The group said it had […]
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