Tech

Greece bans children under 15 from social media from Jan 1, 2027

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Platforms must verify ages or face fines of up to 6 per cent of their global annual turnover.

Study finds Grok backs Republicans and OpenAI's model backs Democrats

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Asked through their APIs to name one candidate, Grok 4.7 picked the Republican in 92 per cent of answers and GPT-6.1 Sol picked the Democrat in 97 per cent.

Two PHP bugs pushed banks, hospitals and shops to take sites offline

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Around 70 per cent of the web-facing internet relies on PHP, including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and MediaWiki.

US banks detect third-party AI agents accessing customer accounts

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According to reports, customers are handing banking usernames and passwords to AI assistants, which can break rules that customers log in themselves.

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Interpol-coordinated operation in Africa arrests 1,462 cybercrime suspects

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Police seized US$105 million tied to the schemes, which Interpol says affected 65,929 victims.

The others are Anduril, InTrack, Slingshot Aerospace, LeoLabs and Australia's EOS. The deals let the force call on extra commercial capacity to track objects in orbit when military demand rises.

Magma may carry hidden oxygen from deep inside Earth

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In lab tests, molten basalt under high pressure took up extra oxygen, more than 5 per cent of its weight at 7 gigapascals.

The robot is a gel frame about the size of a stick of gum with two fins. Each is coated in muscle cells thinner than a hair, engineered to contract when hit by light.