Tue 21 July 2026: As Australia’s ban on under-16-year-olds having certain social media accounts kicks in this week, debate on whether it’s a good idea or even legal rages on – both at home and overseas. Yet barely acknowledged in this debate is what happens when a child doesn’t have an account, yet their entire childhood is still documented online. […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based biometric technology are becoming an increasingly common form of identification. The technology is promoted as […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: China’s humanoid robotics sector is advancing rapidly and gaining an edge in key parts of the embodied artificial intelligence (AI) value chain, industry leaders said at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday. Humanoid robots demonstrated their capabilities on the second day of the conference, climbing tall walls and performing […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: The United Kingdom has proposed an overnight social media curfew for older teenagers as part of the government’s latest push to protect minors from digital harm, though users will be permitted to bypass the restrictions. The Labour administration announced the plans on Wednesday, outlining a six-hour default lockout from midnight to […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Kenya’s official presidential website was hacked on Saturday, with attackers replacing its homepage with a message targeting President William Ruto and demanding a ransom of five Bitcoins. The breach affected the official presidency website, president.go.ke, where the hackers posted a cryptocurrency wallet address and warned that unspecified information would be released […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Apple has overtaken chipmaker Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company, as investor concerns grow due to market pressures driven by artificial intelligence. Apple is now worth $4.88 trillion compared with Nvidia’s $4.86 trillion, following a 3.5 percent decline in Nvidia’s market value. The milestone marks the first time the Cupertino, California-based iPhone […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit against a South Carolina man who was arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging that he misused the company’s AI tool to create sexually explicit content involving a child. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas federal court on Tuesday, alleges […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: Whether it’s a heart, a thumbs-up or the now ubiquitous crying-laughing face, emojis have become one of the world’s most widely understood forms of digital expression. Today, people around the globe are expected to mark World Emoji Day by filling social media feeds with their favorite symbols, voting for the year’s […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: When the movie “Her” debuted in 2013, its plot felt like science fiction. The protagonist, Theodore, is a jaded man with no vigor for life. He comes alive after talking daily with his artificial intelligence chatbot, Samantha, with whom he eventually falls in love. But today people actually report being in relationships with […]
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Wed 15 July 2026: Artificial intelligence (AI) companies are increasingly purchasing thousands of used books, digitizing them to train large language models and destroying the original copies, according to media reports, fueling debate over copyright protections. Since early this year, antiquarian booksellers across Europe have reported unusually large orders from the Canadian company Zoom Books, […]
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