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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia plans to ban social media accounts for people under 16 starting in 2026, joining Australia and a growing number of countries pushing tighter digital age limits for children. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said Sunday the Cabinet approved the move as part of a broaderContinue Reading

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Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cuttingContinue Reading

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on its 150th Falcon 9 mission of the year (video)

SpaceX reached another milestone with the launch of 29 more Starlink satellites for its broadband internet low Earth orbit constellation. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) The Falcon 9’s firstContinue Reading

Our Solar System is racing through space 3x faster than we thought

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University has now found new answers, ones that challenge the established standard model of cosmology. The study’sContinue Reading

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Researchers analyzed 71 different studies and found that those who engage heavily with short-form content had poorer cognitive performance., Researchers analyzed 71 different studies and found that those who engage heavily with short-form content had poorer cognitive performance., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

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Ubuntu support for RISC-V continues to be a focus for Canonical, which aims to establish the distro as the de-facto Linux OS on the emerging processor architecture. With Ubuntu 25.10 requiring RVA23-capable RISC-V hardware (which adds Vector and Hypervisor extensions to better rival ARM and Intel chips) it’s also focusingContinue Reading