Summary U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced at a White House cabinet meeting that the Department of Commerce will begin publishing GDP statistics “on the blockchain” as part of President…
Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones Summary Toyoake, a municipal town in Aichi prefecture with about 69,000 residents, has proposed a guideline recommending that people limit smartphone use…
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur users have filled the site’s front page with images mocking parent company MediaLab AI — notably photos of John…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) are continuing with a planned rollout of Microsoft Office 365 despite serious…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is coming to Samsung’s 2025 range of TVs and smart monitors. The integration lets viewers call…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed ‘Huffman’, has been released. The update brings Vulkan-based GPU-accelerated video encoding and — crucially — integration…
Apple Pulls iPhone Torrent App From AltStore PAL in Europe – Slashdot Summary Apple has removed the iPhone torrent client iTorrent from AltStore PAL, an alternative iOS marketplace in the…
Apple Warns UK Against Introducing Tougher Tech Regulation Summary Apple has warned the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that EU-style interoperability rules could be “bad for users and bad…
UK Unions Want ‘Worker First’ Plan For AI as People Fear For Their Jobs Summary The Trades Union Congress (TUC) reports that over half of the British public are worried…
Typepad is Shutting Down Summary Typepad, the blogging platform launched in 2003 to make blogging accessible to the masses, is being discontinued. The company announced that Typepad will be shut…
