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UK watchdog moves to break Apple and Google's grip on app payments

Buy an app subscription today and there is a good chance Apple or Google is taking a cut. The CMA wants developers to be free to point customers elsewhere to pay and is asking the tech giants to justify any fees they charge for the privilege.

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The Strawberry Moon rises tonight — and no, it isn't strawberry-coloured

The Strawberry Moon rises over Europe this evening, bringing with it centuries of tradition and absolutely no strawberry colouring whatsoever.

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Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban

Australia moves to double fines for social media platforms after seven in 10 children remained active on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok three months after the world-first ban on under-16s took effect — with Big Tech accused of "taking the Mickey."

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Scientists find two Jupiter-sized planets 'lighter than cotton candy'

The two planets orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away are the biggest exoplanets ever found with a density lower than cotton candy, and may be mostly made of hydrogen and helium.

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Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market, report says

Prediction platforms Polymarket and Kalshi have made record profits this year, and now Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly directed tech giant Meta to build their own.

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Anthropic AI cracked classified US systems within hours, officials say

Mere hours, not weeks — that is how long it took an Anthropic AI model to find vulnerabilities across classified US government systems.

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40 mayors worldwide sign pact to fight the AI data centre surge

From Phoenix to Melbourne, a global coalition of city leaders says the AI data centre boom is draining their power, water and land — and they are done waiting.

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Jeff Bezos at VivaTech: We need to colonise the Moon to save Earth

The Amazon founder told VivaTech in Paris that moving heavy industry off Earth is the only way to reconcile economic growth with a liveable planet — and the moon is where it starts.

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ChatGPT can now buy things for you after deal with payments giant Visa

Visa has embedded its payment network inside ChatGPT, letting the chatbot independently shop and complete purchases on your behalf.

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US puts Alibaba, BYD and Baidu on Chinese military blacklist

The Pentagon has added 188 Chinese companies to its military blacklist — its biggest ever expansion — in a move that targets household names far beyond the defence sector.

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Wizz Air announces Starlink wifi deal as other budget rivals hold back

The Hungarian budget carrier will roll out satellite internet across its fleet from 2027, as Ryanair and EasyJet continue to resist the technology over cost concerns.

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Public ownership of AI? US officials eye stake in tech revolution

From Washington to Brussels, the fight over who controls artificial intelligence is reaching a turning point, and history suggests the public has always had to wrestle essential technology from completely private control.

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EU court partially sides with Meta in blow to European Commission

The EU's General Court has annulled Facebook Marketplace's gatekeeper designation under the Digital Markets Act — but the ruling is largely procedural, as the Commission had already stripped the platform of that status a year earlier.

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Microsoft launches its own AI models to take on OpenAI and Anthropic

Seven in-house models unveiled at Build 2026 signal Microsoft's push to cut costs and compete directly on the AI frontier as its biggest investees plan to launch record-breaking IPOs.

wellbeing

At this French hospital, donkeys earn their keep as therapy animals

From depression to schizophrenia, France's only hospital-based animal therapy unit is making the case that four legs can go where medicine alone cannot.

Economy

Why are grocery prices still eye-watering, despite moderate inflation?

Food inflation has fallen sharply from its 2023 peak — but European grocery prices are nearly a third higher than before the pandemic, and the reasons they stay high are structural.

Business

Five industries benefiting from Europe's defence spending boom

After decades of treating military spending as someone else's problem, Europe is now writing very large defence cheques. Here are the industries set to benefit.

Business

Airbus and BMW partner with Mistral AI in Europe tech push

As European companies look for alternatives to US tech giants in the race for artificial intelligence, Airbus and BMW have both partnered with French startup Mistral AI to develop systems ranging from flight safety and defence technology to car crash simulations.

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Google insider's Polymarket scam puts prediction markets on trial

A Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly using his employer's secret search trend data, as landmark case tests whether prediction markets are subject to the same rules as Wall Street.

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AI helps hackers find flaws no scanner can catch, Google warns

For the first time, hackers have used artificial intelligence to find and exploit a security flaw that no automated scanner would have caught – and Google says only its own active monitoring stopped a mass attack.

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