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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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Australia's regulator found adults could still send connection requests to children after Roblox shipped age verification. Roblox now has three months to fix it or face court.
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The Momentum True Wireless 5 lets owners swap batteries in both the buds and the case. European rules landing in early 2027 are already visible in the industrial design.
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The free year of AI Pro bundles Gemini, Spark, Workspace, 5TB of storage and Health Premium. The number that matters is what happens on day 366.
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WIRED says it pulled 69 prewritten police prompts and 45 tool definitions off Flock's own website. The procurement lesson: a vendor's "cannot" describes this build, not the next one.
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ByteDance and Tencent have each taken roughly 10,000 accelerators against licence caps of 75,000 and January orders near two million. The constraint is paperwork, not fabrication.
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A PNAS study that instrumented 715 real feeds found X amplified content clashing with users' stated values. The named mechanism is engagement weighting, not content merit.
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Politico reports AI-drafted legislation is landing on an office of 78 attorneys who cannot decline it. The drafting cost did not disappear. It moved downstream.
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Nikkei Asia says the Pixel 11 was developed and built entirely in Vietnam. That build is now the standard Google's watch and earbud lines have to meet by 2027.
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Starlink says the compact dish supports fixed use, but in the US it is sold around Roam pricing, where unlimited data runs $175 a month against $130 for Residential Max.
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The 6-second video reboot is now open to anyone. The archive of 2M-plus restored Vine clips and a decentralised backend matter more than the nostalgia.
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Denser NAND and a fall from more than $8,000 per gigabyte to under a dollar made small drives pointless to build. Kingston's DataTraveler line now starts at 64GB.
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The memorandum covers every ByteDance AI model, including those in CapCut and Dreamina. The terms are undisclosed, so builders get a rulebook they cannot inspect.
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One alleged user is accused of generating more than 7,000 explicit images of a single child with Grok. That figure is a discovery target, not a talking point.
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Google's Theft Protection suite ships with Play Services on Android 10 and newer, which turns theft response from published advice into a device state policy owners can check.
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The exit was confirmed in July. What is left is a current phone with a promised six-year patch window, an update path that runs through Oppo's ColorOS, and stock that now lives in the channel.
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The retailer handles shipping, inspection and credit. Engadget's price checks suggest the fee for that service runs from $120 to $165 per card.
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Apple raised prices across most of its hardware in June 2026, citing the memory shortage. Refresh budgets written before that date are now short, and Engadget's read is that waiting will not recover it.
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A rejected $60.50-a-share bid has become a negotiation over price, and the structural antitrust objection points at the two assets integrators care about most: Braintree and Venmo.
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