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Meta’s messaging app WhatsApp could soon be subject to deeper scrutiny (and punishment) under the European Commission’s Digital Services Act, Reuters reports. Because the app’s broadcasting feature WhatsApp Channels grew to around 51.7 million average monthly active users in the European Union in the first six months of 2025, the feature has crossed the 45-million-person barrier that lets DSA rules apply.A platform is designated as a “very large online platform” or VLOP once it has 45 million monthly users or more, according to the European Commission. Once an app or service passes that amount, it’s subject to the DSA and…

The boss behind the studio that developed one of 2025’s best RPGs, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, says that online controversies about the game and its predecessor involving representation likely didn’t hurt the game’s sales and only mattered to “a handful” of people who are online 24/7. Some quick history. In 2017, in the lead-up to the launch of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, developer Warhorse Studios was criticized by some online for not including people of color in the game. The studio defended this by claiming it was historically accurate that in early 15th-century Bohemia, especially in the countryside where the game…

The CCIA added that “the Piracy Shield raises a significant number of concerns which can inadvertently affect legitimate online services, primarily due to the potential for overblocking.” The letter said that in October 2024, “Google Drive was mistakenly blocked by the Piracy Shield system, causing a three-hour blackout for all Italian users, while 13.5 percent of users were still blocked at the IP level, and 3 percent were blocked at the DNS level after 12 hours.” The Italian system “aims to automate the blocking process by allowing rights holders to submit IP addresses directly through the platform, following which ISPs…

China’s nuclear fusion reactor, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has breached a major fusion limit by firing plasma beyond its usual operational range, advancing humanity’s slow progress towards near-limitless clean energy.The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) kept plasma — the high-energy fourth state of matter — stable at extreme densities, which was previously seen as a major obstacle in the development of nuclear fusion, according to a statement released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.”The findings suggest a practical and scalable pathway for extending density limits in tokamaks and next-generation burning plasma fusion devices,” study co-lead author Ping Zhu, a professor…

AMD’s Full Suite Of Machine Learning Enhanced Performance Tweaks Is Almost Here AMD FSR Redstone includes the FSR 4 for upscaling, ML-Frame Gen to hallucinate frames for you instead of rendering them traditionally as well as Ray Regeneration to boost performance when you enable ray tracing.  The final feature, Radiance Caching hasn’t been released yet, but is also intended to reduce the cost of enabling ray tracing. That said, while most games which supported FSR 3.1 are being patched to support what is no longer called FSR 4, the number of games which support ML Powered Frame Gen is significantly…

We’re wrapping up coverage of the biggest tech show in the world. CES 2026 is almost over, and while we have more stories and wrap-ups to come, here are the most interesting products we’ve spotted, written about and critiqued/praised. That includes our picks for the best of CES. We gave out 15 awards as well as our best of show, and you might be surprised by some of our picks — I know I was.Read on for some of the best things to come out of Las Vegas this week, but first up, our Best of the Best winner, which…

A week ago, a Guardian story revealed the news that Elon Musk’s Grok AI was knowingly and willingly producing images of real-world people in various states of undress, and even more disturbingly, images of near-nude minors, in response to user requests. Further reporting from Wired and Bloomberg demonstrated the situation was on a scale larger than most could imagine, with “thousands” of such images produced an hour. Despite silence or denials from within X, this led to “urgent contact” from various international regulators, and today X has responded by creating the impression that access to Grok’s image generation tools is now for…

Collecting fallen (or “shed”) elk antlers is a popular pastime in elk-heavy places like Montana, but it’s usually a pretty low-tech, on-the-ground affair. That’s why last year’s story about a US Black Hawk helicopter descending from the skies to harvest shed elk antlers on a ranch was such an odd one. Was it really possible that US military personnel were using multimillion-dollar government aircraft to land on private property in the Crazy Mountains—yes, that’s their actual name—just to grab some antlers valued at a few hundred bucks? Antler hunt In May 2025, Montana rancher Linda McMullen received a call from…

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision is underway in some of the nation’s most advanced space simulation and testing laboratories. Set for launch in in 2028, the Dragonfly rotorcraft is being designed and built at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, with contributions from organizations around the world. On arrival in 2034, Dragonfly will exploit Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity to fly to dozens of…

Tinfoil Hats Beware A lot of people have mixed feelings about current FCC Chairman Brendan Carr but the recent decision “to create a new category of unlicensed devices… that can operate outdoors and at higher power than previously authorized devices.”  These ‘Geofenced variable power’ devices will operate in the 6 GHz band and provide up to 11 dBm/MHz power spectral density and 24 dBm effective isotropic radiated power.  This is a bump up from the current 5 dBm/MHz limit for VLP devices in the USA. This would enable VLP WiFi to provide enough signal strength to handle AR/VR devices and…