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Telegram now lets developers turn chats into interactive mini apps

Chicago schools tell Google they'd rather lose Search than be forced to accept AI

New York forces T-Mobile to remove 50GB cap that throttled low-income home internet users to 600Kbps

EU's proposed Digital Fairness Act takes aim at Duolingo streaks, autoplay, and manipulative apps

Reddit "Reviews" will use AI to turn subreddit posts into product recommendations

Uber, DoorDash, and Airbnb say almost nobody is using AI agents

Kalshi user who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues to get back $580,000

Microsoft patent describes paying you to train AI on your idle GPU

Australia's internet restrictions could go even further, Gmail warns of ban for under-18s

Starlink expands surge-style pricing model with increases of up to 20%

Google, Meta, and TikTok sue California over law banning addictive social media features for children

Paraguay president steps down after digital bank Ueno collapses with 3 million customers inside

Discord is rebuilding its desktop app in Rust to fix its memory problem

Valve support wins praise after restoring games a Steam user deleted during depressive episodes

Google says schools that ban AI will also lose search

Cutting corners: Google executives appear hell-bent on their effort to turn AI into a real business opportunity, even if the effort ends up undermining the company's revenue streams. This latest move looks like an attempt to push Gemini use among students and educational staff, potentially at the expense of rivals such as ChatGPT, which arguably have more mindshare and mainstream adoption at the moment.

Squarespace cuts 19% of jobs, CEO admits the technology behind its business has changed enormously

Reddit tells Australian court it isn't a social media site, calls the country's under-16 ban "ill thought out" and "inept"

Spotify plans to let users remix artists' songs using AI next year, but it'll cost up to $5 extra per month

An internet tax that would charge by the gigabyte just squeaked through France's lower house

WTF?! These days, moving a gigabyte of data across the internet usually costs companies well under a cent. France, however, wants them to pay several times that just in tax. Lawmakers there narrowly voted on Friday to charge content providers 5.5 cents for every gigabyte they send to French users – though the measure still has a long way to go before it becomes law.

Europe and Canada team up in AI computing alliance that doesn't depend on Washington

Binance loses $6.3 billion in largest crypto heist ever

Flock can't seem to take no for an answer, as its cameras reappear in another city that rejected them

Underwater data centers are heading for waters that endangered whales call home

Discord will make some channels and messages searchable on Google

A new report accuses Microsoft of using 10 "dark patterns" to keep you on Edge