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Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher has said.
WORLD
Nov 7, 2026
Apple’s autocomplete restrictions include ‘Dictator Trump’ and ‘Sleepy Joe,’ researcher finds
The find offers insight into the tradeoff between guessing what users are trying to say and preventing the devices from offering offensive suggestions.
Google, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, has faced growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 4, 2026
Google lets schools turn off Gemini, but not the AI in search
Alphabet, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, faces growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
Browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox don’t independently verify every website. Instead, they outsource that to a few dozen commercial and government-linked entities known as Certificate Authorities.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2026
The number 4 that gave the internet a panic attack
Browsers don’t verify every website. Instead, they outsource that power to commercial and government-linked entities known as Certificate Authorities.
New Mexico has accused Meta of lying to Facebook users in the state about who had access to their data and its handling of hate speech and misinformation posted on the platform.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2026
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case
The ruling came in a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.
NEC displays samples of submarine cables on Thursday at its headquarters in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2026
NEC building 1-petabit-capacity subsea cable for Meta
The Petal cable will help meet the growing data transmission needs of artificial intelligence companies.
Meta’s Muse allows users to delegate tasks such as shopping, travel booking and form-filling to an AI agent.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 24, 2026
Meta’s Muse rekindles fears over winners and losers as personal AI agent emerges
Muse allows users to delegate tasks such as shopping, travel booking and form-filling to an AI agent.
The latest proposed social media reforms in Australia follow a law, which took effect in December of last year, banning social media for users under the age of 16 in the country.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
U.S. warns Australia’s social media algorithm reforms risk ‘facilitating censorship’
Under the proposal, platforms would be required to offer a default content feed, with the option to opt out and see posts only from followed accounts.
Filipino chieftain Petronila Munoz points at the proposed land where the Pax Silica Hub might be built in Capas, Tarlac province, the Philippines, on Sept. 2.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 20, 2026
Philippine tribe in limbo over U.S.-led tech hub
Philippines pushes ahead with semiconductor hub while local tribe warns of unclear boundaries and forced relocation.
The EU's rules for social media platforms would include a ban on addictive features and push notifications while children sleep.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Sep 18, 2026
Kids and social media: What would change under new EU law
The EU has been pushed to act after evidence has shown children’s physical and mental wellbeing are damaged by social media.
The OpenAI offices in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2026
Why it’s difficult for tech companies to rein in AI
Concerns over artificial intelligence safety are escalating at a critical moment for the AI industry.
Google has racked up total European Union antitrust penalties of �10.38 billion in its near two decade-long fight with EU antitrust regulators.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 9, 2026
Google warns of lower quality as it revamps Europe search results to avoid EU fines
Google said the changes mark the largest reduction in quality of service at the internet search engine in its 29-year search history.
As the European Union considers how to protect and empower young people in a digital world, it must resist the impulse to rely solely on a social?media ban for minors.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2026
Social-media age bans won’t make children safer — but this will
A more effective strategy to protect young people would force tech firms to remove addictive features by holding them to product-liability standards—as with most other industries.
Meta policy bars children under 13 from using Facebook or Instagram and permits teenagers to use the platforms with some limits on content.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2026
Settlement requires Meta to check young users’ ages. How will that work?
The owner of Facebook and Instagram recently came to an $18 billion legal settlement with U.S. states that is aimed at curbing children’s use of social media.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in September 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2026
Don’t buy Zuckerberg’s ‘good guy of AI’ act
Zuckerberg’s essay announces the creation of a new $1 billion Future Is for Everyone Fund, but concrete details are scant, and the move is seen as a charm offensive.
Meta has agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose limits on teen use of its apps in some states, according to a court filing on Wednesday ending a landmark trial in California.
WORLD
Aug 28, 2026
U.N. urges child-safe design across social media, after Meta settlement
The settlement resolved claims that Meta deliberately engineered its platforms to hook young users, misled the public about the risks and unlawfully collected data from children.
Meta Platforms' headquarters in Mountain View, California
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2026
Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm
Meta’s up to $18 billion settlement with nearly all U.S. states over social media harm to teenagers has opened a new front in a global government fight to protect children.
In a landmark deal with state attorneys general across the U.S., Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement design changes such as limiting the amount of time users under 18 can spend scrolling on its apps.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Kids will be kids, and that’s the biggest risk with Meta’s new safeguards
Guardrails can only work as well as a company’s ability to accurately identify a user’s age, and young people around the world have repeatedly found ways to get past restrictions.
Witness Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, leaves the courthouse in Oakland, California, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2026
Instagram head Mosseri denies encouraging suppression of child social media risks
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, is a central witness in a U.S. lawsuit over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children.
A 15-year-old girl who alleged that social media companies including Meta Platforms contributed to her social media addiction, depression and self-harm has dropped her claims.
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2026
U.S. teen drops lawsuit against Meta, Google and Snap ahead of trial
The plaintiff, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey, had alleged that tech giants contributed to her social media addiction, depression and self-harm.
Former Meta employee Arturo Béjar, who has emerged as a go-to whistleblower witness for states and personal injury attorneys suing Meta and other social media platforms.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 20, 2026
Ex-Meta staffer says daughter, 14, was prey on Instagram
Meta has denied wrongdoing, saying it has continuously improved tools to protect kids and calling the states’ proposed penalties “outlandish.”
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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