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WhatsApp accounts under review: Why users lost access for 24 hours
WhatsApp users worldwide report 24-hour account reviews and sudden feature blocks as the platform works to restore mistakenly flagged accounts.
Gulf News - Aug 04, 2026 2:17am EDT
AI is helping Grab ship products more than 30% faster, CFO says, as company raises forecasts
Grab reported second-quarter results on Tuesday and raised its full-year outlook.
CNBC - Aug 04, 2026 12:39am EDT
Nauru, the world’s 3rd-smallest country, changes its name to Naoero
The move returns the remote South Pacific island nation to its traditional name, officials said, rather than a name that was easier for foreigners to pronounce.
NBC News - Aug 04, 2026 12:07am EDT
Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban
The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 11:03pm EDT
The legal loophole that could revive the Trump administration’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued an order saying the $1.8 billion fund had been “rescinded,” but critics note he’s not the only one who has a say in the matter.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 8:03pm EDT
Court fight begins over South Africa’s land law that irks the Trump administration
Trump has said the law will be used to target white farmers for land seizures and has cited it as a reason the U.S. has withdrawn all financial aid to South Africa.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 7:53pm EDT
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.
BBC News - Aug 03, 2026 7:51pm EDT
Los Angeles FC co-owner Larry Berg will be the next commissioner of MLS
At the start of the new year, Berg will take over for Don Garber, who has been the league’s commissioner since 1999.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 7:39pm EDT
Christian Science Monitor - Aug 03, 2026 7:23pm EDT
Jim Cramer says Wall Street's latest trading trend is creating buying opportunities
CNBC's Jim Cramer said stocks are increasingly moving as part of thematic trading baskets rather than on company-specific fundamentals.
CNBC - Aug 03, 2026 7:18pm EDT
Big Tech's Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are distorting the corporate earnings picture
If you were to strip out Big Tech's investment gains from private AI companies, the earnings story is a lot less bullish.
CNBC - Aug 03, 2026 6:52pm EDT
Meta Chief Must Apologise To Modi Personally: Panel
Deccan Chronicle - Aug 03, 2026 6:10pm EDT
Trump says Jeanine Pirro ‘choked’ by dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case
The president also made claims about the Reflecting Pool that don’t hold water.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 5:09pm EDT
Anthropic Says the House Is on Fire. China Says AI Will Set You Free
Gizmodo - Aug 03, 2026 4:47pm EDT
I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep
Guardian UK - Aug 03, 2026 4:19pm EDT
18-year-old educator sets Guinness World Record for youngest male college professor
Nathan Thomas entered a classroom at Miami Dade College in August 2023 not as a freshman, but as a professor, having already earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 2:39pm EDT
US companies are stepping up to cut reliance on China for critical minerals used in key weapons
ABC News - Aug 03, 2026 1:49pm EDT
Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected
Gizmodo - Aug 03, 2026 1:40pm EDT
Creator of test at the heart of rogue AI hacks warns ‘there have likely been more’
Dawn Song, who helped create the cybersecurity evaluation entangled in the recent OpenAI and Anthropic rogue-agent incidents, says the disclosed cases probably aren’t the only ones.
NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 12:40pm EDT
DoorDash Sends Drivers to Restaurants Just to Load Food Into Delivery Robots
Gizmodo - Aug 03, 2026 12:35pm EDT
Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 11:50am EDT