Saturday, March 14, 2026
Tech
EU watchdog urged to reject Meta ‘pay for privacy’ scheme
Brussels (AFP) - Civil rights groups on Friday called on an EU watchdog to rule against Facebook owner Meta's scheme...
EU rules policing digital content kick in Saturday
Brussels (AFP) - Digital companies will have nowhere to hide after the EU's landmark content law enters into full force...
Four Xbox exclusives heading to rivals in big shift
San Francisco (AFP) - Microsoft on Thursday shook up the video game world with word it is making some once-exclusive...
ChatGPT’s OpenAI reveals text-to-video tool
San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E, said it was testing a text-to-video model...
Ubisoft launches long-awaited ‘Skull and Bones’ video game
Washington (AFP) - After years of production headwinds, Ubisoft's oft-delayed pirate video game "Skull and Bones" is set to launch...
Musk’s X feeds monetization of wartime misinformation
Washington (AFP) - Influencers on X are monetizing misinformation about conflicts in the Middle East, leveraging the platform's contentious policies...
Apple’s iMessage, Microsoft’s Bing escape EU rules
Brussels (AFP) - Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing search engine got a reprieve from tougher EU rules curbing how tech...
France begins to dismantle Notre-Dame scaffolding
Paris (AFP) - The scaffolding around the spire of Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral has begun to come down, the authority charged...
Apollo to Artemis: Why America is betting big on private space
Washington (AFP) - A private Houston-based company is set this week to lead a mission to the Moon which, if...
Four astronauts splash down after Axiom private mission
Washington (AFP) - An all-European quartet of astronauts, including Turkey's first, splashed down off the Florida coast on Friday morning,...
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