The Swiss city that lets you pay for most things with bitcoin
Shops, restaurants and even the local council in Lugano now accept the cryptocurrency.
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Oracle shares slide as earnings fail to ease AI bubble fears
The cloud computing giant's revenue miss renews questions about its financial health.
Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children , in practice they create harmful
A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger at All
The state of streaming is... bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and then scroll past the sponsored links. After that, you find out that the thing
EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws
EFF Also Will Host a Reddit AMA and a Livestreamed Panel Discussion SAN FRANCISCO—With ill-advised and dangerous age verification laws proliferating across the United States and around the world, creating surveillance and censorship regimes that will be used to harm both youth
Porn company starts new age checks after £1m Ofcom fine
The media regulator Ofcom said AVS Group Ltd had started age checks on some of its porn websites.
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
McDonald's Netherlands pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
As a first-time vibe coder, I wish AI knew when to say no
I tried to build a simple tool for my reporting. Instead, I stumbled onto the psychology of creation in the age of AI.
Amazon, Microsoft pledge mega AI investments in India
India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has witnessed a surge of global tech investment recently.
Kids locked out of social media apps after Australia's world-first ban
The new law requires tech platforms to ensure that Australians aged under 16 don't hold accounts.
Watch Australian teens test out social media on first day of ban
Teenagers affected by Australia's under-16 social media ban showed the BBC what happened when they tried to access their accounts.
