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Apple CEO Tim Cook gives nod to founder Steve Jobs in final memo
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
Cook spent nearly three decades at Apple, which he has led as CEO since 2011. He took over just weeks before Jobs died from pancreatic cancer. "We have made it ...
Meta's teen safety deal runs into an unsolved problem: proving age
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The deal, which ended a federal trial in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, gives Meta one year to identify which of its users are 13 to 17 years old. Those acc...
UN urges child-safe design across all social media, after Meta settlement
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
Meta agreed to pay a coalition of US states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose the limits, according to a court filing on Wednesday ending a landmark trial ...
Anthropic vows court fight in Pentagon row
Mar 06, 2026 (AFP)
The CEO, writing in a blog post on Thursday, insisted however that the ruling's practical scope is narrower than initially suggested, signaling that the designa...
Internet blackout leaves anxious Iranians in the dark
Mar 05, 2026 (AFP)
Iranian authorities shut off internet access on Saturday after Israel and the United States began air strikes, plunging the country into an information blackout...
Middle East war is new 'red flag' for roiled tech market
Mar 03, 2026 (AFP)
The conflict marked the opening of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) telecoms trade fair on Monday morning in Barcelona, with would-be attendees blocked from trav...
Tech is thriving in New York. So are the rents
Feb 16, 2026 (AFP)
Ian Amit remembers moving to New York 25 years ago. Back then, "you could probably count the number of tech startups on two hands," says the CEO of cybersecurit...
Discord adopts facial recognition in child safety crackdown
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
The rollout, beginning in early March, will make teen-appropriate settings the default for all users, with adults needing to verify their age to loosen protecti...
AI videos create buzz for ByteDance after US TikTok deal
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
ByteDance is best known globally as the company behind TikTok, but it is also a major AI player in the world's second largest economy. Its new video creation mo...
EU warns Meta it must open up WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
The European Commission said a change in Meta's terms had "effectively" barred third-party artificial intelligence assistants from connecting to customers via t...
EU tells TikTok to change 'addictive' design
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
In preliminary conclusions of a probe opened two years ago, the European Commission said it found TikTok was not taking effective steps to address the app's neg...
Amazon shares plunge as AI costs climb
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
Amazon reported a profit of $21.2 billion on net sales of $213.4 billion in the recently ended quarter as its AWS cloud computing, retail, advertising, and chip...
Global partners advance plans to harden submarine cable networks
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
A declaration adopted at the summit, together with recommendations from the International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience, sets out measures to rein...
Google's annual revenue tops $400 bn for first time, AI investments rise
Feb 05, 2026 (AFP)
The tech giant said revenue jumped 18 percent year-on-year in the quarter, and overall annual revenue topped $400 billion for the first time at the company foun...
Chinese tech giants trade cash for AI buzz
Feb 02, 2026 (AFP)
Chinese AI models are surging globally, favoured by some companies for their functionality and low cost, sparking fierce domestic competition. Tech giant Alibab...
ClearSky and Hydeco team to revamp carrier P2P messaging economics
Jan 30, 2026 (SPX)
The partnership aims to help carriers right-size their P2P messaging infrastructure, replace long-running auto-renewed contracts, and align costs with current t...
Apple earnings soar as China iPhone sales surge
Jan 30, 2026 (AFP)
The tech giant reported profit of $42.1 billion on revenue of $143.8 billion in the recently-ended quarter. The iPhone "had its best-ever quarter driven by unpr...
Amazon to cut 16,000 jobs worldwide
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
The job cuts, which follow already flagged plans to trim its workforce by 14,000 posts, were aimed at "reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing burea...
UK proposes to let websites refuse Google AI search
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in October paved the way for tougher regulation on the matter, under new targeted measures focused on technology gia...
Will the EU ban social media for children in 2026?
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
Pressure has been rising since Australia's social media ban for under-16s entered into force, and Brussels is keeping a close eye on how successful it proves, w...
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