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Malaysia to introduce new rules to protect youth on online platforms

The measures are aimed at providing age-appropriate protections and restrictions for high-risk features on online platforms.

Google changes its search box for the first time in 25 years

Google will also offer digital assistants to automate searches so someone who might be apartment hunting can get notified of a new listing without opening a real estate site.

British regulator fines suicide forum over $1.6 million, warns of UK block

Kremlin releases video of Putin out and about in Moscow after Western bunker claims

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his former school teacher Vera Gurevich at a hotel in Moscow, Russia, in this still image from video released on May 11, 2026. Kremlin.ru/Handout via REUTERS

Russia limits mobile internet ahead of scaled-back World War II victory parade

A woman checks her mobile phone near the Kremlin wall in central Moscow, Russia, May 4, 2026. REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov

Decades of image-based sexual abuse: How perpetrators evade tech platforms and the authorities

From IRC to deepfakes, perpetrators of image-based sexual abuse have taken advantage of regulatory lag.

Wikimedia completes Indonesia registration under threat of ban

The Wikimedia Foundation - which owns and operates Wikipedia - said the ministry informed it that the registration requirement was administrative in nature.

Free meals for first dates? Singpass login to deter catfishers? Survey seeks views to boost coupling

GovTech has been soliciting feedback on the visual design of a potential new dating service.

Taiwan activates backup communications for outlying island after undersea cable breaks

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the main residential and commercial area in Dongyin, Taiwan, March 15, 2022. Picture taken March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

Key US senator to call for new efforts to prevent undersea cable sabotage

Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, attends a hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 26, 2022. Bonnie Cash/Pool via REUTERS

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