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28 stories, 246 sources cited
Brussels has child safety cases open against Snapchat, Meta and TikTok, but not YouTube or the app stores
The European Commission opened formal proceedings against Snapchat in March and issued preliminary findings of breach against Meta in April and TikTok
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Most Australian under-16s are still using social media, the regulator's own evaluation finds
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,
Sources cited: 11 sources
MIT's AI supercomputer has fallen 36 places in the world rankings without getting any slower
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 114
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Apple has handed Siri to Google, and Amazon's Alexa+ has reached Australia
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 fro
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Meta's display glasses never left the United States, and its cheapest AI glasses now start at $469 in Australia
Meta paused the Ray-Ban Display's international launch in January and has not set new dates. The screenless own-brand frames it released instead reach
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Google's Gemini camera features reached Australia in April, and nearly all of them sit behind the top subscription tier
The 2K Nest cameras Google announced in October 2025 are now sold in Australia, but Google's own documentation shows that the AI descriptions, daily s
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Apple tells a US court it trained a research model on a books dataset, and calls it fair use
In an answer filed on 30 March 2026, Apple admitted using a books subset of the RedPajama dataset to train its OpenELM models, while denying those mod
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ChatGPT's app platform is sending its partners little traffic
Bloomberg reported in March that the roughly 300 apps built inside ChatGPT are hard to find and deliver little traffic to the companies that built the
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Investigators now blame Russian hackers for the Jaguar Land Rover shutdown, not the crew that claimed it
The New York Times reported in June 2026 that the attack which halted Britain's largest carmaker for five weeks was carried out by Russian hackers who
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Companies are still discovering they were caught in the 2025 Oracle and Red Hat breaches
Estee Lauder told regulators in July 2026 that intruders reached its Oracle E-Business Suite in August 2025, a breach it says it only identified in Ma
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The argument has moved from AI writing the phishing email to AI running the intrusion
Anthropic said in November 2025 that it had disrupted an espionage campaign in which its own models performed most of the attack work. Security resear
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Samsung's Micro RGB Went From One $30,000 Television to a Range Starting at $1,599
A seven model Micro RGB line-up went on sale in the United States in April 2026, opening at $1,599.99, with the 115 inch flagship carried over above i
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Google Announces the Pixel 11 Pro Fold as Its Predecessor's IP68 Claim Remains in Question
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 Pro Fold on 12 August 2026 at a reported US$1,899. The phone it replaces was sold on being the first dust-proof and water
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Brussels fined Google twice on 23 July, 460 million euros over Search and 430 million over Play
The European Commission issued two separate non-compliance decisions under two different Digital Markets Act obligations, not the single billion dolla
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Google's search remedies have bound it since 3 February, and the government is not appealing on Chrome
Judge Amit Mehta entered final judgment on 5 December 2025 and its contractual injunctions took effect on 3 February 2026. The cross-appeal brief file
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Munich court found six songs sit inside Suno's model, then applied US law and rejected fair use
The Landgericht Muenchen I ruled for GEMA on 31 July 2026 in case 42 O 763/25. Its jurisdiction over training done in the United States came from a ve
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Anthropic's 1.5 billion dollar settlement covers 482,460 pirated books, not the training that used them
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval on 20 July 2026 in the Northern District of California. Claims were filed for 440,490 of the 482,
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Australia's own regulator found more than 81 per cent of under-16s still on social media after the ban
eSafety's first before and after evaluation, published on 31 July 2026, found use of age restricted platforms fell from nearly 86 per cent to above 81
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The H200 opening to China carries a 50 per cent compute cap and lab testing of every shipment
The Bureau of Industry and Security announced three conditions on 13 January 2026. The final rule published two days later lists nine, including a cap
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EU deferred the AI Act's high-risk rules to 2027 and 2028 but left the 2 August labelling duties standing
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and in force from 27 July, moves standalone high-risk duties to 2 Decembe
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The CMA found Apple's WebKit rule holds back rival browsers, then put the remedy in its slower queue
The regulator's final decision of 22 October 2025 records that the WebKit requirement restricts rivals' ability to innovate and raises their costs, an
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The order against state AI laws produced a first intervention arguing equal protection, not preemption
Executive Order 14365 was signed on 11 December 2025 and gave the Attorney General 30 days to build a task force to attack state AI laws as preempted
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The AI memory squeeze reached official price statistics in July 2026, but not the headline inflation rate
US prices for computer software and accessories rose 21.2 per cent in the year to July 2026, and computers and peripherals rose 3.5 per cent in that m
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The 275 million figure in the Canvas breach comes from the attackers, and it may not count people at all
Instructure has confirmed that names, email addresses, student ID numbers and user messages were taken from Canvas. It has not confirmed the attackers
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Conduent's breach count went from 4.3 million to 62.2 million in eight months of filings
Conduent Business Services filed a figure of 62,224,658 affected individuals with US health regulators on 4 June 2026, for an intrusion that ended on
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ShinyHunters is named in Canvas, Carnival, Medtronic and RingCentral, and Google says it was not a vendor flaw
Four breaches reported as separate corporate failures between April and August 2026 share an attributed crew. Google Threat Intelligence has said the
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Brazil switched off Discord's livestreams on 12 August, before its child law's fines were due to start
The ANPD ordered Discord to suspend Go Live in Brazil within three business days, citing Law 15,211/2025. The regulator found reports involving Discor
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eSafety's own report shows five million accounts gone and most under 16s still on social media
eSafety's March 2026 compliance update records 4.7 million age-restricted accounts removed or restricted by mid-December 2025 and 300,000 more by earl
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