Cryptocurrency ether has surpassed $4,000 for the first time since December and appears poised to continue its upward trend. The world’s second-largest digital currency’s price is being fueled by growing demand from companies accumulating the token on their balance sheets. On Sunday, ether was trading around $4,200. This makes ether almost three times its value […]
Google will have to adjust its Play Store in the US to allow competing stores. The judge also ordered several measures to further prevent the formation of a monopoly. Epic Games, the creator of games like Fortnite, also won its appeals court case against Google. The judge thus confirms that Google, through its Android Play […]
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 […]
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 […]
A group of British publishers have filed an antitrust complaint with the EU against Google, alleging that its AI summaries in search results are disadvantaging their content. The complaint originates from the Independent Publishers Alliance and concerns the summaries that appear when searching for information via Google. That summary often already provides an answer to […]
Apple is appealing a fine of 500 million euros imposed by the European Commission in April. The American tech company was fined because it is pushing to offer apps only in its app store. According to the Commission, Apple violates the Digital Markets Act. “We have filed an appeal today because we believe the European […]
