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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers’ requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable...
Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory chip factories or adding capacity would “take too long” to keep up with AI-driven storage demand. “If we took the teams off and started building new factories or bringing up new machines, that would just take too long. You would end up with more capacity, but then you’d slow the rate of growth on that technology,” Mosely said. CNBC...
Built on Solana, Margin Trade combines unified margin, real-time execution, and multi-asset exposure within a single trading environment SAN FRANCISCO, Ca, May 19, 2026 — Solayer today announced the rollout of the public testnet for Margin Trade, a new Solana-native perpetual trading platform designed to support unified margin across multiple asset classes, including crypto, commodities, […]
LAS VEGAS, NV, UNITED STATES— Diagnostic Orders Direct has launched a patient-focused telehealth service designed to make diagnostic order consultations more affordable, accessible, and convenient for patients across 30 states and jurisdictions. The service offers $40 virtual consultations for patients seeking provider review for diagnostic imaging, EKGs, laboratory testing, and specialist...
OpenAI would be one of the most highly anticipated potential initial public offerings, in what is set to be a major year of I.P.O.s for Silicon Valley.
A long-running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could reverberate across the industry. Because many of today’s popular smart TV...
The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is facing backlash after several winning entries were accused of being AI-generated, with one Caribbean winner’s story flagged as fully AI-written by a detector that WIRED says it independently confirmed. From the report: Each year, the Commonwealth Foundation, a nongovernmental organization in London, awards its short story prize to one writer in each of...
Hong Kong – Pharos Network, a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for real-world financial applications, today announced a strategic partnership with KUN, a licensed enterprise digital payments specialist operating across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. The collaboration aims to tokenize supply chain credit assets (such as trade invoices and receivables) and build efficient...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to minutes. The company also said that consumers will be able to use Gemini AI...
UK scientists find tocilizumab, used for rheumatoid arthritis, may help antidepressant-resistant patients
Immunotherapy could be used to treat depression among patients who have not responded to conventional antidepressants, according to the results of an early clinical trial.
Researchers at the University of Bristol investigated whether tocilizumab, an anti-inflammatory drug commonly used for...
Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme.
Africa is many payment markets – Velex Advisory helps businesses navigate providers and regulators.
Teachers are improvising and learners are exposed unevenly – South Africa urgently needs a national AI policy for schools.
Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as “commercial use” could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. “The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick,” adds The Register. From the report: A reader alerted The Register...
UK report argues people have greater control over longevity than widely understood, but others say claim is simplistic
Individuals bear at least 80% of the responsibility for their ill health in old age, according to a report aimed at challenging the belief that physical decline is either inevitable or primarily the responsibility of the state.
The report, launched at the Smart Ageing Summit in...
Roblox said it had “clear policies” banning actual and simulated gambling, as well as rules governing paid random items.
A month after Mythos’s limited launch, cybersecurity practitioners say the hacking threat is more measured than feared.
South Africa’s key inflation number hit 4% in April, with fuel prices still rising and interest rate hikes now looking likely.
MTN Group will install GPUs at its African towers to build a distributed AI inference grid, while also investing in AI data centres.
Vibrating flowers uses huge amounts of energy, forcing bees to choose which plants to visit and affecting which ones are pollinated
Bees use as much energy collecting pollen through “floral buzzing” as they do taking off in flight, a study shows.
Scientists have found the vibrations bumblebees use to shake pollen loose from flowers are among the most exhausting behaviours they perform, forcing...
Disney+ has hiked the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa by more than 12%.