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Brazil's data protection agency on Wednesday ordered Discord to suspend livestreams, accusing the messaging platform of failing to protect children and adolescents after a teen girl was allegedly incited to commit suicide during a broadcast. In a case des

Many, many years ago, I attended an IBM AS/400 press briefing in Rochester, Minnesota. The main event was the appearance of a duo called Timbuk 3 performing their big hit from 1986, The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades. You will not be surprised to

Google has unveiled four new phones during the annual Made by Google event in New York: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. The Pixel Watch 5 will be released at the same time. The devices feature stronger, brighter disp

Irish consumers are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and self-service for simple customer service tasks but want access to a real person when issues become complex, sensitive or require empathy, research commissioned by the Customer Contact Manageme

In its latest effort to protect human creators from the flood of synthetic music, Spotify will soon require AI-generated identities to carry an 'AI Persona' label while barring their tracks from users' algorithmic mixes. The change will take effect in mid

A federation of nearly 300 French newspapers has filed a complaint with the country's competition authority over Google's AI-generated summaries of search results, fearing the feature will erode traffic to their own websites. It is the latest salvo by med

Recent research by TrendAI shows a huge increase in AI-driven cyber threats targeting the financial sector. According to the report Modern Bank Heists in 2026, 89% of financial institutions observed a rise in these sophisticated attacks over the past year

Anthropic, the maker of AI system Claude, is going to add an invisible watermark to everything produced with its new models. This will be done not just for Europe but worldwide, and is intended to make it clear whether something has been created with AI,

Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, has warned that it may be forced to exit the browser market if it is no longer allowed to receive payments from Google for offering its search engine. According to Mozilla, a ban on these payments could lead the company

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision for how the United States and the social media giant could win a global race to dominate AI amid fierce competition from China. In a long essay published Monday about the future of artificial intelligence, Zucke