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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.

SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said on Thursday it has developed the world's first 16 gigabytes DDR5 chip using the sixth generation of the 10-nanometer chipmaking technology.

Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, has been charged by a French investigative judge for allegedly enabling illegal transactions and other criminal activities on the platform, according to reports from NBC News and Le Monde.

Reddit users worldwide faced a significant outage today, rendering the platform inaccessible for approximately 45 minutes.

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace venture Blue Origin is set to launch its eighth tourist mission to suborbital space on Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates and Russia have submitted requests for consular access to Telegram messenger CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested in Paris over his alleged refusal to cooperate in the investigation of crimes related to the app.

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission aimed to conduct the first-ever 'all-civilian' spacewalk has been delayed over a helium leak, said the Elon-Musk-led company on Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov's arrest in Paris was made under "an ongoing judicial investigation" and was not a "political decision".

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) on Monday imposed a hefty fine of 290 million euros ($324 million) on ride-hailing platform Uber over data transfer breach of European taxi drivers.

Crew safety is paramount, said Elon Musk on Monday, a day ahead of the launch of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn spacecraft to low-Earth orbit.