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India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon.

Roblox accused of concocting illegal gambling ring for minors::Popular online gaming platform Roblox acts as an illegal gambling ring that preys on children, according to a purported class action brought by parents.

Apple may reduce the performance of the 3nm A17 Pro processor due to massive overheating of the iPhone 15 Pro::The problem of overheating of iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max smartphones is becoming widespread. It is possible that Apple will be forced to take the unpopular step of reducing the performance of the latest 3nm A17 Pro chip.

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work::Zoom is asking all of its employees to return to the office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, when the tech company blew up as one of the main means of communication when people were forced to work from home.

Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination::FCC will investigate ISP practices that discriminate by income level or race.

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement::John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the...

Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe::Parents told the high school “believed” the deepfake nudes were deleted.

Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.

Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide::Report reveals details about Amazon’s secret algorithm redacted in FTC complaint.

Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot are being indexed in search results....

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....

Netflix just axed its basic ad-free plan in the US and UK::Netflix no longer offers its basic ad-free plan in the US and UK to new subscribers, which costs $9.99 / month or £6.99 / month in either country.

The European Union (EU) sent a letter to Elon Musk Tuesday warning that his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was spreading illegal content and disinformation after the Hamas attacks on Israel....

Epic Games is reportedly laying off around 900 employees | Said to be roughly 16% of its workforce.::UPDATE 4.54pm: Epic has confirmed reports of widespread layoffs at the company, saying the move will affect "around 830…

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.

X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models::X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users’ job and education history, Bloomberg spotted

Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July::Germany connected solar systems with a combined capacity of almost 1.2 GW to the power grid in July, hitting a new monthly record and bringing the total solar capacity in operation to 75.1 GW