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Meta, TikTok and X face legal challenges over information requests linked to Britain’s Online Safety Act, highlighting growing tensions between major technology platforms and Ofcom over regulatory demands, transparency, child protection and access to detailed platform safety data.
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Poland’s competition regulator has brought allegations against four Google group companies over negotiations with publishers on payments for news content. The case centres on whether Google provided information needed to assess proposed rates, including data on content use, revenue and calculation methods.
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India’s CCTV rules now require security compliance before non-conforming cameras can be sold. MeitY withdrew the previous stock-sale relaxation from April 1, 2026, while STQC and BIS frameworks support testing and compulsory registration for covered CCTV products sold across India.
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Google is challenging a European Commission order requiring it to share anonymised search data with eligible rival search engines, including AI chatbots with search functions. The case is now pending before the EU General Court as Google seeks judicial review.
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Apple continues expanding its smart-home ecosystem through HomePod mini, HomePod and Apple TV, while new Siri features require compatible home hubs. Official Apple sources confirm existing capabilities, but do not currently confirm reports of a new October 2026 smart-home hub launch.
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Apple CEO John Ternus has begun a new leadership era after more than two decades at the company, including senior hardware engineering roles. Apple says his career spans major product lines, materials innovation, reliability, durability and repairability efforts across Apple.
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Key Takeaways STMicroelectronics expects data center revenue to exceed $1 billion in 2026 and rise to well above $2 billion in 2027. The company is benefiting from growing AI infrastructure demand, particularly across optical connectivity, power conversion and control technologies. STMicroelectronics CFO Lorenzo Grandi is scheduled to discuss the company’s strategy at Citi’s Global TMT.
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VodafoneThree has introduced Vodafone SuperMobile and announced Vodafone TV for October availability in the UK. SuperMobile offers access to its 5G+ FastTrack network, a 15 Mbps minimum-speed guarantee under specified conditions and security features, while Vodafone TV combines live TV, streaming, gaming and apps.
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Apple says John Ternus will become chief executive on September 1, 2026, while Tim Cook will move to executive chairman. The planned transition would put Apple’s hardware engineering chief in the CEO role and make Arthur Levinson lead independent director.
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TCL North America says it has filed a federal false-advertising lawsuit against Samsung Electronics America, alleging that Samsung marketed M Model televisions as Mini LED products despite lacking the technology. TCL seeks to bar that marketing and recover compensatory damages.
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Fervo Energy and Google have signed a 396-MW power purchase agreement for Fervo’s Cape Station enhanced geothermal project in Utah, which Fervo expects to come online in 2028. Google also has an option to add about 600 MW of offtake by June 2030.
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Apple may soon update its Maps service to show Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for U.S. users after President Donald Trump contacted the company, according to U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. The executive order itself applies to U.S. federal naming and maps.
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Key Takeaways Xanadu's updated roadmap targets up to 200 logical qubits by 2029, 500 by 2030 and more than 1,000 by 2031. The company is targeting a fault tolerance milestone in 2028 2029 and a quantum data centre in 2029 2030. Xanadu is also expanding PennyLane, its open source quantum computing software platform, as part.
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MIT professors Dennis Whyte and Andrew W. Lo, with collaborators, have proposed a 10-parameter framework for testing whether fusion power plants could earn a net-positive economic return. Published open access in the Journal of Fusion Energy, the study connects plant physics and engineering to construction costs, component durability, conversion efficiency, and returns in energy markets.
