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Apple has started restoring card payments for Apple Account purchases in India, more than four years after removing the option. The phased rollout lets eligible users add Visa and Mastercard…

Microsoft is cutting around 4,800 jobs, or 2.1% of its global workforce, in another round of layoffs that will hit Xbox and commercial sales especially hard. The cuts come as…

Reddit says it is using large language models to detect and block spam, including content that may itself be created with AI tools. The company said its updated automated systems…

Canada’s Communications Security Establishment said it carried out state-authorized cyber operations last year against foreign drug traffickers, violent extremists and ransomware criminals. The disclosures appeared in the agency’s 2025-2026 annual…

Station F is preparing the second batch of its F/ai accelerator, as the Paris startup hub looks to strengthen its role as a launchpad for European AI companies. The programme…

Even Realities has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round led by Meituan and Tencent, valuing the Shenzhen-headquartered smart glasses startup at $1 billion. The funding comes as larger…

Agility Robotics plans to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a special purpose acquisition company backed by Michael Klein. The deal values the Oregon-based humanoid robotics…

Uber has paused most of its planned European food delivery expansion as it continues to pursue a takeover of German rival Delivery Hero. The company had announced plans in February…

Amazon Mechanical Turk will close to new customers on July 30, 2026, leaving existing users able to continue using the crowdsourcing platform. Amazon Web Services said it will keep investing…

Google has released a new Workspace commercial that imagines the U.S. Founding Fathers using modern productivity tools to draft the Declaration of Independence. The ad, titled “Group project, but make…

Midjourney is asking a federal court to make Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. disclose more information about their own use of generative AI. The request is part of an ongoing…

Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in office environments from July 10, according to multiple reports. The Chinese technology company has classified the AI programming tool as…

Sky is expected to buy ITV’s television and streaming business in one of the largest British media deals in recent years. The proposed takeover would give the Comcast-owned company control…

Wimbledon’s strawberries and cream are prepared through a daily supply chain that begins at a family farm in Kent and ends at kiosks across the All England Lawn Tennis Club.…

More than 250 major UK employers have joined Sir Charlie Mayfield’s workplace health taskforce, which aims to stop people leaving jobs because of long-term illness and help others return to…

EasyJet has reached an agreement in principle with U.S. investment firm Castlelake on a possible cash takeover worth about £5.5 billion. The proposal values the airline at 690 pence per…

Chinese tea chain Molly Tea has been ordered to pay Louis Vuitton 10.3 million yuan, or about $1.5 million, after a court found that its logo infringed the luxury brand’s…

Vietnam has intensified enforcement against counterfeit goods and intellectual property violations after the United States identified the country as a Priority Foreign Country for weak IP protection. Authorities launched a…

The Indian government has summoned representatives of Meta after a BBC Eye investigation found paid Instagram advertisements directing users to child sexual abuse material sold through Telegram. Around 30 distinct…

Citizen Lab has confirmed that former European Parliament member Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee investigating surveillance abuses. Researchers said the…