Fri 26 December 2025: With Christmas just around the corner, it can be a very busy and stressful time of year. Between festive gatherings, ticking off what’s left on your yearly to-do list and shopping online for that perfect gift, it can be easy to let your guard down against fraudsters. Australians lost more than A$2 […]
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Wed 24 December 2025: ‘UNICEF encourages all countries considering new regulations to pair any age-restriction measures with strong obligations on platforms, robust safeguards for privacy and participation,’ says regional adviser for child protection in Europe and Central Asia As governments move to restrict children’s access to social media, the debate over how best to protect […]
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Tue 23 December 2025: Internet outages throughout 2025 led to connectivity issues on various platforms, affecting millions of users. Disruptions affected particularly video-on-demand platforms, video games, and communications platforms this year, revealing the fragility as well as indispensability of digital services in daily life. Many platforms rely on the same few cloud providers and core […]
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Tue 23 December 2025: According to data published on Tuesday by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Tesla, the leading US electric vehicle manufacturer, saw its EU sales fall by 34.2% year-on-year in November. Billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla sold 12,130 units in the EU last month, ACEA’s report showed. The figure was […]
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Mon 22 December 2025: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is reportedly weighing the introduction of an Australian-style ban on social media access for children under 16, as reported by British media outlets on Sunday. Starmer’s office is “closely monitoring” the policy banning social media for children, although the prime minister previously said he was “personally” […]
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Mon 22 December 2025: Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI ‘from passive tool to active partner in journalism’. Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a new integrative artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with Google Cloud. Al Jazeera said on Sunday that it was expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud […]
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Sun 21 December 2025: Tesla unveiled its humanoid robot, named Optimus, to the public in Berlin on Saturday. The machine handed out popcorn at the Christmas market in the LP12 shopping centre, also known as the Mall of Berlin. The robot picked up small popcorn boxes, filled them and handed them to visitors. A long […]
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Sat 20 December 2025: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order mandating the return of American astronauts to the Moon by 2028, accelerating plans to establish a permanent US presence on the lunar surface and reassert Washington’s dominance in space. According to the White House, the directive signed on Thursday calls for astronauts […]
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Fri 19 December 2025: According to media reports on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew informed employees in an internal memo that the company has signed an agreement to transfer its US operations to a new joint venture led by American entities, in a bid to ensure the app’s continued availability in the United States. The […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: Shares of Chinese chipmaker MetaX Integrated Circuits surged about 700% during their market debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, following the company’s almost $600 million first public offering. MetaX shares began trading at 700 yuan ($99.4) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market index, which is heavily weighted towards technology companies, 569% […]
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