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Delete Old Emails to Save Water? UK Govt's Unusual Plea Highlights Global Crisis
The UK government's Department of Environment is asking its citizens to delete their old emails and pictures to save water, as the country faces a drought. The UK says that this will minimise the usage of data centres, which require vast amounts of water to keep them cool. However, this is not a problem specific to the UK. As more people start to a...
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China Advances Guowang Internet Constellation with Latest Satellite Launch
China has launched the eighth batch of satellites for its Guowang internet constellation, lifting off on Aug. 13 aboard a Long March 5B rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center. Operated by state-owned China SatNet, Guowang aims to deploy about 13,000 satellites in low Earth orbit to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink. Each launch so far has carried ...
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Perplexity Is Using Stealth Bots and Breaking Website Directives to Fetch Data, Says Cloudflare
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from t...
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The Internet Thinks They Found Ahaan Panday's Private Instagram Account. It Is Followed By Saiyaara Co-Star Aneet Padda
Saiyaara is dominating the box office. The Mohit Suri-directed romantic drama has crossed the Rs 300 crore mark globally
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Microsoft SharePoint Hack: Probe on Whether Chinese Hackers Found Flaw via Alert
Microsoft is probing if a leak from its cybersecurity early warning system allowed Chinese hackers to exploit unpatched flaws in its SharePoint service. The company is said to be investigating whether this program, designed to give security experts a head start on fixes, inadvertently led to widespread exploitation of SharePoint vulnerabilities glo...
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Musk Issues Apology After Starlink Satellite Faces Hours-Long Global Outage
SpaceX chief Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service experienced an hours-long global network outage Thursday, which executives attributed to a key software issue.
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Starlink Network Issue Now Resolved; Elon Musk Issues Apology
After facing a global outage for nearly 3 hours, Starlink announced on Friday that the network issue affecting its internet service has been resolved.
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Microsoft Knew of SharePoint Security Flaw but Failed to Effectively Patch It, Timeline Shows
A security patch Microsoft released this month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in the U.S. tech giant's SharePoint server software, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage effort, a timeline reviewed by Reuters shows.
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SpaceX Launches Two O3b mPOWER Satellites, Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Booster at Sea
SpaceX launched two mPOWER internet satellites into medium Earth orbit and landed its Falcon 9 booster on a ship in the Atlantic, marking its 89th Falcon mission of the year. The satellites will expand SES’s global network as the company moves closer to completing its 13-satellite constellation for advanced internet coverage worldwide.
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PayPal Partners With NPCI, Others to Build Cross-Border Payments Platform Focused on Interoperability
PayPal on Wednesday announced a partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) International Payments Limited and other global payment systems to build a new platform that will support cross-border transactions. Dubbed PayPal World, it will be a technology-agnostic platform that connects to all partnering payment systems. The San Jo...
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Apple's App Store Policy Changes Said to Get EU Approval Soon
Apple's updated App Store policies for EU developers are reportedly expected to gain approval from antitrust regulators. This would help Apple avoid hefty daily fines, potentially 5 percent of its average daily global revenue, that could be imposed by EU regulators. The company was already fined EUR 500 million in April for violating the EU's Digit...
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ChatGPT Users Reportedly Send More Than 2.5 Billion Prompts Daily
ChatGPT reportedly handles more than 2.5 billion prompts daily. As per the report, OpenAI revealed the volume of messages its chatbot and servers process for the first time. The artificial intelligence (AI) company also highlighted the number of messages that are sent from the US, as compared to the rest of the world.
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The End of the Search Era: How AI Is Quietly Breaking the Internet’s Traffic Model
According to Similarweb (via The Economist), the global search traffic fell by 15 percent year-on-year (YoY) as of June 2025. Older data also show that the no-click-through rate to news websites grew from 56 percent in May 2024 (this was when AI Overviews was launched), to almost 69 percent in May 2025.
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"HR Approved": IKEA, Tesla, Other Companies Milk Viral Coldplay Clip
When a stadium jumbotron turned into an accidental expose of corporate drama, the internet did what it does best: made it viral. This time, major global brands also pouncedand profited off of it.
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Zoho Unveils In-House Zia AI Model, Launches Multiple Pre-Built AI Agents for Enterprises
Zoho, the global software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant, announced several new artificial intelligence (AI) products on Thursday. The company unveiled its first natively built large language model (LLM) Zia, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, more than 25 pre-built AI agents, Zia Agent Studio marketplace, and a model context protocol (MCP) se...
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Delete Old Emails to Save Water? UK Govt's Unusual Plea Highlights Global Crisis
The UK government's Department of Environment is asking its citizens to delete their old emails and pictures to save water, as the country faces a drought. The UK says that this will minimise the usage of data centres, which require vast amounts of water to keep them cool. However, this is not a problem specific to the UK. As more people start to a...
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China Advances Guowang Internet Constellation with Latest Satellite Launch
China has launched the eighth batch of satellites for its Guowang internet constellation, lifting off on Aug. 13 aboard a Long March 5B rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center. Operated by state-owned China SatNet, Guowang aims to deploy about 13,000 satellites in low Earth orbit to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink. Each launch so far has carried ...
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Perplexity Is Using Stealth Bots and Breaking Website Directives to Fetch Data, Says Cloudflare
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from t...
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The Internet Thinks They Found Ahaan Panday's Private Instagram Account. It Is Followed By Saiyaara Co-Star Aneet Padda
Saiyaara is dominating the box office. The Mohit Suri-directed romantic drama has crossed the Rs 300 crore mark globally
-
Microsoft SharePoint Hack: Probe on Whether Chinese Hackers Found Flaw via Alert
Microsoft is probing if a leak from its cybersecurity early warning system allowed Chinese hackers to exploit unpatched flaws in its SharePoint service. The company is said to be investigating whether this program, designed to give security experts a head start on fixes, inadvertently led to widespread exploitation of SharePoint vulnerabilities glo...
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Musk Issues Apology After Starlink Satellite Faces Hours-Long Global Outage
SpaceX chief Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service experienced an hours-long global network outage Thursday, which executives attributed to a key software issue.
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Starlink Network Issue Now Resolved; Elon Musk Issues Apology
After facing a global outage for nearly 3 hours, Starlink announced on Friday that the network issue affecting its internet service has been resolved.
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Microsoft Knew of SharePoint Security Flaw but Failed to Effectively Patch It, Timeline Shows
A security patch Microsoft released this month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in the U.S. tech giant's SharePoint server software, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage effort, a timeline reviewed by Reuters shows.
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SpaceX Launches Two O3b mPOWER Satellites, Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Booster at Sea
SpaceX launched two mPOWER internet satellites into medium Earth orbit and landed its Falcon 9 booster on a ship in the Atlantic, marking its 89th Falcon mission of the year. The satellites will expand SES’s global network as the company moves closer to completing its 13-satellite constellation for advanced internet coverage worldwide.
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PayPal Partners With NPCI, Others to Build Cross-Border Payments Platform Focused on Interoperability
PayPal on Wednesday announced a partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) International Payments Limited and other global payment systems to build a new platform that will support cross-border transactions. Dubbed PayPal World, it will be a technology-agnostic platform that connects to all partnering payment systems. The San Jo...
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Apple's App Store Policy Changes Said to Get EU Approval Soon
Apple's updated App Store policies for EU developers are reportedly expected to gain approval from antitrust regulators. This would help Apple avoid hefty daily fines, potentially 5 percent of its average daily global revenue, that could be imposed by EU regulators. The company was already fined EUR 500 million in April for violating the EU's Digit...
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ChatGPT Users Reportedly Send More Than 2.5 Billion Prompts Daily
ChatGPT reportedly handles more than 2.5 billion prompts daily. As per the report, OpenAI revealed the volume of messages its chatbot and servers process for the first time. The artificial intelligence (AI) company also highlighted the number of messages that are sent from the US, as compared to the rest of the world.
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The End of the Search Era: How AI Is Quietly Breaking the Internet’s Traffic Model
According to Similarweb (via The Economist), the global search traffic fell by 15 percent year-on-year (YoY) as of June 2025. Older data also show that the no-click-through rate to news websites grew from 56 percent in May 2024 (this was when AI Overviews was launched), to almost 69 percent in May 2025.
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"HR Approved": IKEA, Tesla, Other Companies Milk Viral Coldplay Clip
When a stadium jumbotron turned into an accidental expose of corporate drama, the internet did what it does best: made it viral. This time, major global brands also pouncedand profited off of it.
-
Zoho Unveils In-House Zia AI Model, Launches Multiple Pre-Built AI Agents for Enterprises
Zoho, the global software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant, announced several new artificial intelligence (AI) products on Thursday. The company unveiled its first natively built large language model (LLM) Zia, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, more than 25 pre-built AI agents, Zia Agent Studio marketplace, and a model context protocol (MCP) se...
