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Catfishing victim gets payout for Tinder, TikTok and Instagram profiles

Elha Mai Weston posed as the teenager to strike up romantic conversations on social media.

BBC News - Jul 17, 2026 2:55am EDT

Americans Are Angry About Data Centers; Politicians Are Feeling The Pressure

Deccan Chronicle - Jul 17, 2026 2:35am EDT

China’s Xi calls for step up of global effort in AI, as US curbs squeeze China’s tech access

Toronto Star - Jul 17, 2026 2:02am EDT

Galaxy Z Fold 8: Samsung reveals design and camera upgrades in latest Spider-Man promo

Spider-Man's phone takes a beating as he battles crime

Gulf News - Jul 17, 2026 1:13am EDT

SoftBank sinks 8% as Asia chip stocks track Wall Street AI sell-off

Japanese AI-linked stocks tumbled as a fresh rout in U.S. semiconductor shares spread across Asia after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's outlook failed to reassure investors.

CNBC - Jul 16, 2026 10:50pm EDT

SpaceX aborts Starship test flight, sending stock lower

Elon Musk said it would make another attempt "hopefully in a few days." SpaceX completed the maiden test flight of its Starship V3 rocket in May.

CNBC - Jul 16, 2026 7:39pm EDT

SpaceX calls off Starship test flight due to startup issue with engines - The Starship's engines shut down during ignition.

ABC News - Jul 16, 2026 7:18pm EDT

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models

Register UK - Jul 16, 2026 6:54pm EDT

Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO

Guardian UK - Jul 16, 2026 6:50pm EDT

Alphabet shares fall on report its most powerful AI model Gemini 3.5 Pro is delayed

Alphabet announced the Gemini 3.5 Pro AI in May, saying it was being used internally but wouldn't be ready for a broader rollout until the following month.

CNBC - Jul 16, 2026 6:19pm EDT

Elon Musk Quietly Bought a Medium Sized Fossil Fuel Energy Company Back in May

Gizmodo - Jul 16, 2026 6:15pm EDT

China Just Performed the World’s First Implant of a Commercial Brain-Computer Interface

Gizmodo - Jul 16, 2026 5:05pm EDT

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Ars Technica - Jul 16, 2026 4:46pm EDT

Nobody Is Getting the Data-Center Water Question Right

The Atlantic - Jul 16, 2026 4:22pm EDT

TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

Register UK - Jul 16, 2026 4:10pm EDT

Canva billionaire has found her next big challenge: democracy

Canva receives 4 million pieces of user feedback a year and develops features from many. Melanie Perkins wants to know why government can’t do the same.

Sydney Morning Herald - Jul 16, 2026 4:07pm EDT

Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man that helped him do it?

Guardian UK - Jul 16, 2026 3:02pm EDT

India's First Private Orbital Rocket Vikram-1 to Launch on July 18

Deccan Chronicle - Jul 16, 2026 1:35pm EDT

Officials probe whether White House teleprompter operator profited off Trump's words

NPR - Jul 16, 2026 1:31pm EDT

Google DeepMind Is Preparing For AI's Biggest Risk. Biosecurity Is Becoming A New Battleground.

Google is expanding access to select AI tools for governments and researchers as scrutiny of biological risks associated with advanced models continues to grow.

International Business Times - Jul 16, 2026 1:17pm EDT

11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto

Gizmodo - Jul 16, 2026 12:37pm EDT

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days

Register UK - Jul 16, 2026 11:41am EDT

Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material

Guardian UK - Jul 16, 2026 11:36am EDT

Utah residents react as Trump slashes national monuments - President Donald Trump signed proclamations this week dramatically slashing the size of Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. By - Story Hinckley - / 3 min

Christian Science Monitor - Jul 16, 2026 11:10am EDT