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The European Commission opened formal proceedings against Snapchat in March and issued preliminary findings of breach against Meta in April and TikTok in July. None has reached a decision, and no public enforcement step has been taken against YouTube, the Apple App Store or Google Play. Reported from 10 independent sources.
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eSafety's three month follow-up, published on 31 July 2026, found 81.5 per cent of children aged 10 to 15 were still using an age-restricted platform, down from 85.9 per cent before the ban began. Parliament is now weighing a bill to double the maximum fine to A$99 million.
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Science published the Stanford and Arc Institute bacteriophage work on 6 August 2026. Six days later an Oxford researcher reported that the 16 working viruses were on average about 97 per cent identical to the natural phage they were modelled on.
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TX-GAIN's measured performance is exactly what it was when MIT unveiled the machine in October 2025. Its position on the TOP500 list has gone from 114th to 150th, which is a measure of how fast everyone else has been building.
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A University of Arizona group has produced squeezed light pulses lasting 5.3 femtoseconds, which its paper in Light: Science and Applications calls the shortest ultrafast synthesised quantum light pulses generated to date, and tracked quantum noise moving between two properties of the pulse as it passed. The same team has since posted a follow-up that pushes the technique down to individual half-cycles of the electric field.
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Apple announced its rebuilt assistant, Siri AI, on 8 June 2026, and Bloomberg and CNBC report that the model behind it is a Gemini system licensed from Google. Amazon's Alexa+ opened to Australian users on 6 August 2026.
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