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China's first window-cleaning robot standard, effective Dec. 1, 2026, sets minimum safety and cleaning thresholds.
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China's first window-cleaning robot standard, effective Dec. 1, 2026, sets minimum safety and cleaning thresholds.
Australian court orders Apple to allow iPhone sideloading and third-party payments by 2027; Apple will appeal.
FCC blocks two gadgets over 'foreign surveillance chips' in first use of new power, naming a HiVision chip.
Older Americans reported about $3 billion in fraud losses in 2025, up 25% from 2024 and 400% from 2020, the FTC said, as large losses and investment scams drove the increase and Congress weighs new protections.
Report: AI cuts coding time 52%, but 25% of pull requests are low-quality 'AI slop,' adding review burden.
Gates tells The Verge to prepare for 20 years of disruptive AI change; he says policy and industry responses are inadequate.
Critical PHP2Shell flaws force government and commercial sites offline as the NSA urges immediate patching.
OpenAI urged UK regulation as AI agents raise data-leak and prompt-injection risks, TechRadar reports.
TechRadar: facial recognition scrutiny must extend beyond police to private users, with clearer data rules.
South Korea raised its cyber warning to 'caution' over critical PHP flaws and urged systems to be patched.
South Korea raised its cyber crisis warning to “caution” on Oct. 22 after two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, forced emergency website shutdowns worldwide and left older PHP versions without official patches.
Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco warn UK has 12 months to prevent US-style datacenter protests from blocking construction.
BOK holds rate at 3 pct; Yonsei reports data leak; Kim Yo-jong warns of border measures.
India is preparing a national data center policy after local opposition to Amazon and Google projects over water and power use, CNBC reported.
Texas report says data centers could erase decades of air-quality gains, with soot more than tripling.
Three U.S. nuclear plants to restart by 2029, backed by federal loans and tech power deals, for AI data centers.
Proton CEO Andy Yen wins the 2026 Liberal Award as Zurich’s Young Liberals press Switzerland’s surveillance debate.
Le Monde reports that the EU is investigating Booking.com over online fraud and phishing risks.
Chicago residents sue Coco and Serve, alleging delivery robots took biometric scans without consent under Illinois law.
UK transport authorities can fine up to £100 from next Monday for playing audio aloud, TechRadar reports.
Researchers are pursuing pills that mimic some exercise benefits, though scientific and regulatory hurdles remain.
MIT Technology Review reports progress in trapping and destroying PFAS, while warning ongoing use complicates cleanup.
Shanghai platform issues digital ID codes to AI agents, pushing organizations to define task assignment, approval and accountability.
Trump urges data centers to pay communities a ‘dividend’ to win support ahead of midterms.