Irish regulator reconsidering TikTok data-transfer ban after court rulingIreland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), TikTok's lead EU privacy regulator, fined the Chinese tech giant €530 million a year ago and or...
30 Jun, 2026, 10.14 PM IST
Trump's fixation on voting has had mixed results. He still has ways to affect November's electionsTrump's attempts to reshape U.S. election rules have largely failed, with recent Supreme Court and lower court rulings blocking his executi...
30 Jun, 2026, 10.07 AM IST
Australia to give regulator more power to pursue Big Tech over under-16 banPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said there were still too many children on social media and tech firms were not doing enough to comply with...
29 Jun, 2026, 11.16 AM IST
Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin targets $50 billion Hong Kong IPO: ReportInvestors have been asked to buy chips with a value three to seven times the worth of their planned subscription in Kunlunxin's initial p...
29 Jun, 2026, 12.14 AM IST
The US lags other countries in social media restrictions for kids, but a reform push is growingTwo mothers, Amy Neville and Kristin Bride, are spearheading a movement for stronger online child safety after losing their sons to social ...
28 Jun, 2026, 10.57 AM IST
Trump administration asks OpenAI to limit release of GPT-5.6: ReportPer the report, the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy requested that the ...
26 Jun, 2026, 03.50 PM IST
TikTok, YouTube deactivate 4.7 million child accounts in Indonesia following government curbs, minister saysIndonesia has taken significant action regarding child social media engagement, leading to the deactivation of around 4.7 million accounts ...
26 Jun, 2026, 12.36 PM IST
Federal judge halts Trump's election executive order seeking to create a federal voter listUS District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen ...
25 Jun, 2026, 09.11 PM IST
US judge blocks Trump's mail-in voting executive orderA federal judge in Boston has halted President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, citing unlawful interference with state election ...
25 Jun, 2026, 07.23 PM IST
Australia teen social media ban has little impact: researchAustralia's social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers' scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the fi...
25 Jun, 2026, 09.46 AM IST
Google's YouTube settles case over social media harm to childrenThe terms of the settlement of the state court lawsuit were confidential, the lawyers said on Tuesday. The suit named four defendants - You...
24 Jun, 2026, 08.58 AM IST
Mamdani's power play, a Kennedy's TikToks. Four things to watch in Tuesday's primariesNew York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing far-left candidates against mainstream Democrats, potentially clashing with House Minority Leader ...
23 Jun, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
A billion prompts later, ChatGPT rewrites the record booksThree years after its launch, it achieved another milestone, reaching 1 billion users in May 2026, according to the latest data from Sensor...
23 Jun, 2026, 11.20 AM IST
UK considers forcing social media firms to prioritise trusted newsThe culture department said on Monday it was considering requiring platforms such as Meta's Facebook, Alphabet-owned YouTube and TikTok to ...
23 Jun, 2026, 09.46 AM IST
India shows that forcing teens off their phones isn’t always goodThe UK's initiative to restrict social media access for individuals under 16 mimics India's stance, rooted in fears surrounding child well-...
20 Jun, 2026, 01.00 PM IST
W marks the X-spot: European social network takes on MuskAs Europe pushes for more tech sovereignty, social network W believes it has the X- it's European. The most popular social networks in Euro...
17 Jun, 2026, 10.37 PM IST
Florida sues TikTok, claiming it violates state child safety lawThe lawsuit seeks a court order directing the platform, which is owned by ByteDance, to make changes to bring it into compliance with the l...
16 Jun, 2026, 07.19 AM IST