Month: July 2023
Elon Musk’s tweet limits
Mr Musk who took over Twitter in October 2022 had said previously that he was not happy about artificial intelligence (AI) firms using Twitter’s data to train their large language models. Confusion at Twitter appears to be continuing after owner Elon Musk introduced limits to the amount of posts users can read in a day.
China restricts export of computer chip materials
Semiconductors, which power everything from mobile phones to military hardware, are at the centre of a bitter dispute between the world’s two largest economies. In October, Washington announced that it would require licences for companies exporting chips to China using US tools or software, no matter where they are made in the world. From next
Meta to launch Twitter rival
Mark Zuckerberg has a history of borrowing other company’s ideas – and making them work. Meta’s Reels is widely seen as a TikTok copy, while Stories looks similar to Snapchat. Meta has the resources to compete with Twitter. Threads will be part of the Instagram platform, so it will also be connected to hundreds of
Russian troops advancing in ‘fierce fighting’ in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces have made gradual progress in their counteroffensive launched last month but have so far failed to produce a major breakthrough and have urged Western allies to escalate pledges of military support. The latest developments on the battlefield came after Ukrainian officials said Russia launched its first overnight drone attack on the capital Kyiv
Wagner and Putin game
The history of Russia, including modern episodes since the fall of the USSR, clearly indicates that the Russian military has no qualms about shooting at civilians if necessary. It was, therefore, odd that the Wagner militants took over Southern Military Command Headquarters without a struggle. Meanwhile, Russia was still able to launch missile attacks on
Poland to strengthens its border with Belarus
The Polish Border Guard on Sunday also said that 187 people tried to cross into Poland from Belarus illegally on Saturday. Poland accuses Belarus of artificially creating a migrant crisis on the border by flying in people from the Middle East and Africa and attempting to push them across the frontier. Minsk has denied the
Part of Russian Embassy’s personnel leave Romania
Russian aircraft are not allowed in EU airspace as a sanction for the war in Ukraine. However, the Bucharest authorities made a derogation for the aircraft that could take over Embassy employees and their families, declared undesirable. The Russian Embassy in Bucharest sent home 40 of its employees and their family members after Romania urged
The Hague probe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The ICC had previously opened an investigation into the issue of alleged child deportations by Moscow but has no mandate to probe the broader crime of aggression. The court has issued an international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over the allegations. An international center to investigate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is set to open
Twitter temporarily restricts tweets to users
Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day which has been limited to 1,000 tweets a day. Mr Musk said the temporary limits were to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”. data scraping is the pulling of information from the internet. Large language
Funding of empty detention centre in Australia
Australia’s controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. Despite the facility sitting vacant, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government will spend vast sums of money including A$486m (£255m; $320m) this year to keep Nauru open as a deterrent. It pauses over a decade of