Greek photographer Athanasios Maloukos scooped top prize in the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025 contest with two stunning series of low-light images; here are the winning shots

TikTok is pointing to the fallout of power outages at one of its data centers to explain recent reports of censorship and glitches impacting users.

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public Monday. Read full story

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Britain's Revolut said on Tuesday that it has officially launched full banking operations in Mexico, marking its first bank established outside of Europe as the fintech accelerates its expansion into high-growth markets. Read full story

OpenAI has launched Prism, a free scientific research app that aims to do for scientific writing what coding agents did for programming. Engadget reports: Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For the uninitiated, LaTeX is a typesetting system for formatting scientific documents and journals. Nearly the entire scientific community relies on LaTeX, but it can make some tasks, such as drawing diagrams through TikZ commands, ..

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General's Office revealed that although Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was opposed to the chatbots having "explicit" conversations with minors, he also rejected the idea of placing parental controls on the feature. Reuters reported that in an exchange between two unnamed Meta employees, one wrote that we "pushed ..

Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. dollar-backed crypto tokens known as stablecoins could pull around $500 billion in deposits out of U.S. banks by the end of 2028, Standard Chartered estimated on Tuesday - new analysis that could intensify a fight between banks and crypto companies over legislation to set rules for the digital asset sector. Read full story

Clawdbot, the viral personal AI assistant, will henceforth be known as Moltbot. If you follow AI news, you can probably guess why.

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List, a website that compiles information about incidents involving Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, and lists thousands of their employees' names. It seems that the latter detail is what caused Meta to take action in a move that was first reported by Wired . ICE List is a crowdsourced Wiki that describes itself as "an independently maintained public documentation project focused on immigration-enforcement activity" in ..

Today Samsung is announcing "a new layer of privacy" coming soon "to keep everyday moments truly yours". See if the following quote from the official press release sounds familiar: "Samsung will soon unveil a new layer of privacy to shield your phone from shoulder surfing wherever you go. Youll have the space to check your messages or enter a password on public transit without thinking twice about who might be watching". That's right, Samsung has basically just confirmed the Galaxy S26 Ultra's ..

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The 530A program, often called "Trump Accounts," passed last year as part of the administration's "big beautiful bill."

Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.

SMS sign-in links frequently expose sensitive data through weak authentication and long-lived, easily guessed URLs.

Amazon has agreed to pay $309 million and provide additional remedies in a class-action settlement over claims that customers were wrongly denied refunds after returning items. Plaintiffs say (PDF) the deal delivers over $1 billion in total value, including more than $600 million in refunds and operational changes. Reuters reports: Amazon denied any wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement. "Following an internal review in 2025, we identified a small subset of returns where we issued a refund ..

Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot.

Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust Users of Meta's WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature that combines multiple security settings under a single, toggleable option.

Nova Launcher is finally getting updates again, but they're coming with major bugs and an uncertain future.

Thanks to a retailer listing in Italy, we now have purported pricing for the upcoming Moto G17, Moto G77, and Motorola Edge 70 Fusion. The G17 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is listed for 294.90. The G77 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is listed at 376.89, and the Edge 70 Fusion with the same RAM/storage amount as the other two will apparently go for 478.90. Moto G17, G77, and Edge 70 Fusion listings These aren't nicely rounded prices, the sort that device makers like for their ..

TikTok responds to users who found they can't use the word 'Epstein' in their direct messages: it's happening, but inconsistently.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the first high-profile lawsuit -- considered a "bellwether" case that could set meaningful precedent in the hundreds of other complaints -- goes to trial. That lawsuit documents the case of a 19-year-old, K.G.M, who hopes the jury will agree that Meta and YouTube caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay to push her down a path that she alleged triggered depression, anxiety, self-harm, and ..

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The emotions of our children and teenagers are not for sale France wants its own social media ban for minors, and it wont be the last we see in 2026.

Following Snapchat, TikTok settles out of a jury trial that will put Meta and Google on the witness stand over mental health concerns.

Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents It's not enough to have its agents in streets and schools; ICE now wants to see what data online ads already collect about you. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a Request for Information (RFI) asking data and ad tech brokers how they could help in its mission.

AppLovin's cease and desist letter to CapitalWatch called the short-seller's accusations of money laundering defamatory and baseless.

Adobe Photoshop introduced some new features that are rolling out for creators today. As you'd expect from any service operator in this day and age, there's some AI involved. Adobe has improved the tools for Generative Fill, Generative Expand and Remove that are powered by its Firefly generative AI platform. Using these tools for image editing should now produce results in 2K resolution with fewer artifacts and increased detail all while delivering better matches for the provided prompts. The ..

McAfee upgrades Scam Detector to catch QR code and messaging scams in real time.

Citigroup has rolled out mandatory AI training for all 175,000 of its employees across 80 locations worldwide, a sweeping initiative that CEO Jane Fraser describes as helping workers "reinvent themselves" before the technology permanently alters what they do for a living. The $205 billion bank sent out an internal memo last year requiring staffers to learn prompting skills specifically. Fraser told the Washington Post at Davos that AI "will change the nature of what people do every day" and ..

Redwire joins thousands of other vendors supporting the project, including Anduril, Palantir, Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin

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Microsoft releases open source Quantum Development Kit, integrating simulators, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and workflows for chemistry and error correction.

Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people The mobile app emperors have no clothes. Apple and Google have made millions of dollars from AI apps that let users undress people even as both companies claim to ban such software from their stores, according to a new study.

Corning, a 175-year-old glassmaker known for supplying iPhone glass, is now at the center of the AI infrastructure boom with a new type of fiber-optic cable

Salazar v. Paramount hinges on video privacy law's definition of "consumer."

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You can now configure your Razer keyboard without installing bulky apps.

The company said it's "reallocating resources" to roles and teams focused on artificial intelligence.

"A thorough investigation will be conducted by NASA into the cause."