Instagram And Facebook Go Down
Facebook and Instagram users across several countries reported problems accessing the platforms on Sunday, with complaints ranging from login failures and unavailable accounts to feeds not loading and posts, Stories and Reels failing to upload. The disruption appeared to affect both Meta platforms across web and app experiences. Users also took to X to report
Chinese online marketplace AliExpress fined 550 million euros over counterfeit
The European Commission on Monday fined Chinese online marketplace AliExpress 550 million euros ($629 million) for failing to adequately crack down on the sale of unsafe and counterfeit products on its site. The fine, the biggest ever imposed for breaches of the 27-nation European Union’s Digital Services Act, comes just months after another online retailer,
Meta faces Tennessee courtroom battle
Meta is set to face trial in Tennessee on Monday over claims that Instagram’s design contributed to the youth mental health crisis. The case is one of several trials scheduled in the coming weeks that will test allegations that the company’s social media platforms were intentionally designed to be addictive. Tennessee accuses Meta of violating
Roblox wants kids to vibe-code their own video games
Roblox wants you to make your next video game from your phone.The gaming platform company introduced Build, its AI-powered tool that can turn a written prompt into a basic playable game. The tool is housed inside the Roblox mobile app. The update pushes vibe coding — the practice of describing software in plain language and
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is making a major change
Developers raised the alarm after discovering that Grok Build servers were getting way more data than anyone expected. Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI announced yesterday it is making an important change to Grok following a privacy backlash.The issue relates to what kind of data, and how much of it, was going to Grok servers. Conversations with chatbots
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly planning to raise up to 50 billion yuan in a fresh funding round
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is planning to launch a fresh fundraising round at a valuation of about 500 billion yuan ($74 billion) ahead of a potential mainland initial public offering.The plan comes just weeks after the Hangzhou-based company, which drew global attention with its low-cost AI models in 2025, raised about $7.4 billion in June
The new macOS malware
Mac users are at a major risk because of a new macOS Infostealer dubbed ClickLock Stealer. It answers victims’ refusal by killing all their applications in a loop until they give in their login password. It comes as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a fake system dialogue, and when the
X (Twitter) outage
Twitter has been facing a major downtime on a global scale with a lot of users not able to access their accounts for different purposes.And the complaints are continuously going up in terms of scale as the latest update is that the complaints have already crossed the mark of 1500. At the time of testing
Netflix used generative AI on 300 titles this year
About 300 movies and TV shows released on the platform this year were made using generative AI technology – mostly in the post-production process. The co-CEO of Netflix, Ted Sarandos, puts this into the category of a cost and time-saving achievement – shots that would have been left out, now produced twice as quickly and
Indonesia’s copyright rewrite puts Google, AI platforms on notice
Indonesia is preparing sweeping changes to its copyright law, including granting copyright privileges to people who use artificial intelligence to help them generate content, a draft bill reviewed by Reuters showed, setting up a potential showdown between the government and major tech platforms. If passed, Indonesia could become the first country in Southeast Asia to