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US forces intercepts an oil Tamker on Venzuela coast
The oil tanker seized by US forces on Wednesday had a track record of faking or concealing its location information, apparently to hide its activities, ship tracking data shows. On Wednesday evening, the US confirmed that its forces seized a vessel during a helicopter-launched raid near the coast of Venezuela.Data held by publicly accessible tracking
Google offers gift cards to allow user data tracking
Google apparently is promising gift cards if consumers who receive such mailers agree to enroll their smartphones to start sharing all their web and app activity for a “Device Usage Study.” You’d get $20 — or 2,000 in points — for signing up. Over time, you might be able to earn up to $540 —
Google launches MCP servers to easy AI agents intergration
Google claims it’s trying to solve that by launching its own fully managed, remote MCP servers that would make its Google and Cloud services like Maps and BigQuery easier for agents to plug into.At launch, Google is starting with MCP servers for Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine. In practice, this might look like
ChatGPT is Apple’s most downloaded app
Apple on Wednesday released its annual list of the most downloaded apps and games for the year. For the U.S. market, OpenAI’s ChatGPT topped the ranks of free iPhone apps (not including games) with the most installs in 2025. The AI app was followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail and
Europe Vs Trump on Ukraine peace plan
For Europeans, the latest peace proposal is an unconscionable capitulation to Vladimir Putin, rewarding him for invading a neighboring country. Trump’s plan would see more Ukrainian land than Russia currently occupies handed to Putin. It would require Ukraine to effectively rewrite the country’s constitution, prohibiting it from joining NATO in exchange for vague security guarantees,
Ukraine to give revised peace plans to U.S.
Ukraine is expected to hand its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv’s effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms. As tension builds around President Trump’s push for a settlement
The IBM Future Of AI And Blockchain
IBM just acquired Confluent for $11 billion. This acquisition may look like a classic enterprise AI move, but its implications stretch well beyond artificial intelligence. This deal signals a deeper shift in how companies will build intelligent systems, manage real time data, secure digital transactions, and create trust in a world where AI and blockchain
AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers
An ideologically wide range of news outlets now stand to make some money off Meta’s obsession with AI.Partnering means paying; Meta’s plans to compensate those publishers an undisclosed amount, Axios media reporter Sara Fischer confirms. It’s the latest in a series of moves by the operators of AI services to pay sites for access to
AWS still chaning the AI story
Even with substantial upgrades across its AI stack, analysts say AWS’s ecosystem remains only half-built: powerful in parts but still lacking the cohesion enterprises are looking for. AWS kicked off re:Invent 2025 with a defensive urgency that is unusual for the cloud leader, arriving in Las Vegas under pressure to prove it can still set
Australia banned social media for under-16s.
From Wednesday,Australia is set to enforce a world-leading social media ban for anyone under 16, as concern grows that kids are getting too swept up in a digitised world of harmful content and commercial interests. And now, Denmark looks ready to follow its lead. Last month, the Nordic country announced it had secured an agreement