A new phase of the UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday. Porn sites (but not exclusively) are now required to implement “robust age verification” for users. Around six thousand porn sites in the United Kingdom have been required to verify users’ age since Friday. The new rule, according to industry watchdog Ofcom, […]
ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts to the chatbot daily, with 330 million of these entered by Americans. OpenAI shared the figures with the American news outlet Axios. The company further states that ChatGPT has over 500 million weekly active users, who primarily use the free version. The numbers illustrate the enormous growth of […]
In Russia, free access to the internet is becoming increasingly restricted. Telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor recently blocked some 56,000 websites for refusing to remove content Moscow considers extremist, Digital Development Minister Maksut Shadayev reported this week. At the same time, the minister defended a new controversial law that criminalises searching for such content. The law provides […]
The forum site Reddit has announced that it will now verify the age of British users before allowing them to view “mature content.” This is in response to the country’s laws. The United Kingdom already passed the Online Safety Act in 2023, which aims to ensure, among other things, that children don’t see inappropriate content […]
Resident doctors in England — previously referred to as junior doctors — have voted to launch new strike action in a renewed row over pay, potentially extending industrial disruption into early 2026, the British Medical Association (BMA) has confirmed. The dispute centres around a 29.2% pay demand, with the latest ballot showing overwhelming support for […]
The UK’s financial future is under severe strain, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which has raised concerns over ballooning pension costs, rising climate-related expenditures, and increasing public debt. Without significant policy changes, the OBR projects that government debt could skyrocket to 270% of GDP by 2070 — a steep rise from its […]
French President Emmanuel Macron will make a state visit to the United Kingdom over the next three days. The visit confirms an increasingly close relationship, following the turbulent Brexit period. At a closing political summit, defence and migration are high on the agenda. The French President and his wife, Brigitte, arrived in London at noon […]
In Russia, former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit was found dead in his car. According to the pro-government Russian press, he committed suicide. A few hours earlier, Starovoit was fired by President Vladimir Putin. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the main federal investigative authority in the country, confirmed reports in the Russian press that […]
Hackers stole more than $2.2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in the first half of 2025, market analysis firm Finbold reported, citing data from crypto security firm SlowMist. The bulk of the loot comes from the massive hack of Dubai-based crypto exchange Bybit in the first quarter of this year, in which $1.5 billion was stolen. […]
The United States is considering imposing restrictions on the export of advanced AI chips to Malaysia and Thailand, arguing that the countries are funnelling chips to China, which has long been subject to export restrictions. Bloomberg reports this based on anonymous sources. The sources report that the US government is working on a plan to […]
