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India froze Starlink approvals over Iran fears, days before SpaceX’s record IPO

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India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not having a licence to operate there, Bloomberg reported. The timing is awkward: SpaceX’s IPO, expected to raise $75 billion at […]

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Anthropic’s CEO says he doesn’t know if Claude was used in the Iran school strike that killed 120 children

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role his company’s AI model Claude played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang, he described the strike as “a really terrible […]

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Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country

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Russia restored access to Roblox on Wednesday after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, the Interfax news agency reported. The gaming platform had been blocked since December 3, cutting off an estimated 18 million monthly users, most of them children and teenagers. The Digital Ministry said Roblox had implemented “a comprehensive set […]

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A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false

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A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overviews make, treating the AI-written summaries as Google’s own speech rather than ordinary search results. It is one of the first rulings to test who is responsible when a generative-AI system gets it wrong, and the answer it gives is […]

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Snapchat walls under-16s off from public Spotlight, making their videos friends-only

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Snapchat is restricting how its youngest users share video. From this week, Snapchatters aged 13 to 15 will get a dedicated profile where their Stories and short-form Spotlight clips are visible only to mutually accepted friends, and will no longer be pushed to the wider public on Spotlight. Until now, under-16s could post to Spotlight, […]

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The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn

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The European Central Bank quietly moved to rein in Revolut last year, restricting Europe’s most valuable fintech from launching new products across the European Economic Area over concerns about how fast it approved them, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The intervention had not been disclosed before. The ECB paused Revolut’s European arm from releasing […]

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Munich startup ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift cargo eVTOL, at ILA Berlin

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Munich-area startup ERC System has unveiled Victor, an uncrewed hybrid-electric cargo eVTOL designed for defence, logistics, and disaster response, at ILA Berlin 2026. The company says the aircraft can carry a 250kg payload over a range of 300km at a cruise speed of 250km/h. ERC System is targeting first deliveries in 2028. Victor uses a […]

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TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, told the BBC that inflation is pushing up its costs and did not rule out raising prices. CFO Wendell Huang said the company would not impose sudden “fourfold, fivefold” increases but acknowledged that costs have risen. “We reflect our value,” he said, pointing to TSMC’s technology leadership […]

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Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

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Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The feature, which Meta internally called NameTag, was designed to convert faces captured by […]

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The UK just committed £1.3 billion to AI hardware, worker training, and putting AI in courtrooms

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The UK government used London Tech Week to announce a £1.1 billion AI Hardware Plan and a £200 million AI Adoption package, alongside reforms that will put AI into the justice system and a new data lab aimed at preventing homelessness. The announcements represent the most concentrated burst of technology investment the current government has […]

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