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This announcement follows a July request by Australia’s eSafety regulator, which urged internet companies to create enforceable codes to prevent children from accessing inappropriate material, such as pornography.

Italian app developer Bending Spoons is planning significant layoffs at WeTransfer, with 75% of the staff expected to be affected, according to CEO Luca Ferrari.

Elon Musk on Sunday said that the first uncrewed Starship mission will be launched to the Red Planet in two years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on Saturday landed back safely on Earth without astronauts, after a three-month trip to the International Space Station (ISS).

Meta has finally revealed how it plans to integrate third-party chats into WhatsApp and Messenger.

Microsoft has announced a collaboration with StopNCII to proactively remove harmful intimate images and videos from its Bing search engine using digital hashes generated by users.

Telegram has quietly updated its FAQ page, removing references that previously claimed private chats were protected from moderation.

YouTube is gearing up to launch a suite of new tools designed to give creators greater control over content that mimics their voices or likenesses using generative AI.

YouTube is introducing a new global feature this week that allows parents and guardians to link their accounts with their teenage children's YouTube accounts.

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA.O) plummeted 9.5% on Tuesday, marking the largest single-day market value decline ever recorded for a U.S. company.

Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to leave comments on Instagram Stories, adding a more public way to engage with these ephemeral posts.

Starlink, the satellite internet provider owned by Elon Musk, has announced that it is now complying with a Brazilian court order to block access to the social media platform X.

Snapchat is set to introduce "Sponsored Snaps," a new form of advertising that will appear next to chat threads from friends, as revealed by CEO Evan Spiegel.

X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, has finally answered users' calls for one of the most requested features: the ability to edit direct messages.

Despite these obstacles, many of Brazil's 16 million X users turned to VPNs to continue accessing the platform. This led to a massive surge in VPN usage, with a 469% increase on the first day of the ban, reaching 1600% by August 31st, according to research from VpnMentor.

Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform, has experienced a significant user surge, gaining a million new users in just three days.

Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the social media platform X to be blocked nationwide after the company refused to appoint a legal representative in the country.

Telegram is currently under scrutiny by the European Union for its reported user numbers. According to the Financial Times, the investigation was triggered after Telegram failed to provide an updated user count this month.

South Korean shares dropped more than 1 percent after opening on Thursday, taking a cue from Wall Street losses prompted by an underwhelming earnings result by global artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Nvidia.