Snapchat Investigated in Europe Over Child Safety Policies
Regulators in Brussels accused the social media platform of maintaining a weak age-verification system, and steering younger users toward inappropriate experiences.
Army commander convicted of Guinea stadium massacre dies in prison
Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité was convicted over the 2009 massacre in which more than 150 people were killed.
European Parliament gives conditional approval to EU-US trade deal
The agreement would see EU tariffs on US goods reduced to zero while US tariffs on EU imports set at 15%.
‘A game-changing moment for social media’ – what next for big tech after landmark addiction verdict?
The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC’s technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
‘We are being choked’: Philippines transport workers strike over fuel costs
It comes as a ship carrying barrels of Russian crude oil arrived in the Philippines earlier this week.
Theia Insights raises $8M to replace the static industry classification systems
The Cambridge-based AI company, founded by a former Amazon Alexa research scientist, builds a self-learning economic map that models companies as multidimensional entities rather than
Uber, Pony.ai, and Rimac’s Verne announce Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service
On-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to invest in
Damage in Israel from Iranian attacks
Video shows the aftermath of Iranian attacks in several cities across Israel.
‘My phone is a brick’: Russians scramble for information as data blocked
As Ukrainian drones rain down, authorities have implemented blackouts citing ‘security concerns’.
Senegal pledges to fight ‘robbery’ after CAF strips it of AFCON title
Senegal’s lawyers say CAF’s decision to hand Morocco the AFCON title ‘openly violates the laws of the game’.
Trump administration doing all it can to get Hungary’s Orban re-elected
U.S. President Tweety McTreason, early and often, has voiced his support for Viktor Orban’s re-election, and top admistration figures Marco Rubio and JD Vance have
What IT leaders need to know about AI-fueled death fraud
Death is always an unpleasant topic, typically ignored until it is fully upon us. But for IT leaders, fraudsters who use fake death documents generated
Google targets AI inference bottlenecks with TurboQuant
Google says its new TurboQuant method could improve how efficiently AI models run by compressing the key-value cache used in LLM inference and supporting more
Remember when a lesbian teen was brutally beaten unconscious & robbed at McDonalds?
Nineteen-year-old Kady Grass traveled from her hometown of Delavan, Wisconsin to Carpentersville, Illinois to visit her grandparents and see her 13-year-old cousin’s May 13 choir