Boys Forming Romantic Bonds With AI

A major UK study has found that some teenage boys are developing romantic and emotionally intimate relationships with AI chatbots, prompting growing concern among researchers, parents and regulators about how these increasingly human-like systems may be shaping young people’s understanding of relationships.

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Google Now Labels Ads Made by AI

Google is introducing new labels that tell users when advertisements have been created or edited using generative artificial intelligence, marking an important step towards greater transparency as AI-generated marketing becomes increasingly realistic and more difficult to distinguish from traditional advertising.

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Amazon Takes on Starlink

Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial broadband services later this year, marking the point at which its long-awaited satellite internet network moves from development into operation and giving businesses, governments and consumers the prospect of meaningful competition to SpaceX’s Starlink. Reaching The Starting Line […]

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New EU Cars Must Now Watch The Driver

From 7 July 2026, every newly manufactured passenger car and van sold in the European Union must include a new generation of advanced safety systems, including technology that monitors whether drivers are paying attention to the road, marking another significant step towards vehicles that actively watch over both their occupants and everyone around them.

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Sony Calls Time On PlayStation Discs

Sony is ending the production of physical game discs for new PlayStation releases from January 2028, marking another major step towards an entertainment industry where consumers increasingly access rather than physically own the products they buy.

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Is The AI Bubble About To Burst?

The artificial intelligence boom has attracted extraordinary levels of investment, transformed technology markets and created expectations of a new era of productivity, but a warning from the world’s leading central bank organisation suggests that the consequences could be felt far beyond the technology industry if financial returns fail to match the hype.

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Fraud Fears Over New WhatsApp Usernames

WhatsApp’s plan to let people communicate without revealing their phone numbers has run into immediate regulatory opposition in India, turning what began as a new privacy feature into a much wider debate about online anonymity, fraud and how messaging platforms should balance privacy with security.

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Fusion Breakthrough Turns Plasma Energy

A US fusion company has demonstrated a new way of converting energy from a fusion plasma directly into electricity, while separate work on advanced electrical conductors could dramatically reduce the amount of power lost as heat, highlighting how the clean energy challenge is increasingly about efficiency as well as generation.

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CAPTCHAs To Be Replaced With Privacy-First Web Verification

Cloudflare has joined forces with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Shopify to develop a new internet protocol designed to help websites distinguish genuine visitors from malicious bots without relying on CAPTCHAs, forced logins or invasive tracking, in what could become one of the biggest changes to how people prove their identity online in decades.

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