Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Brazilian Supreme Court has punished messaging service Telegram for disobeying an earlier court decision for it to deactivate accounts belonging to the former president’s supporters. The prior decision was reached in January as part of an investigation into vandalism incidents at the nation’s capital’s public buildings. In order to “halt the... 

One of the top software developers in the world and US IT giant Microsoft has been compelled to pay €60 million ($64 million) after French authorities found it guilty of breaking local laws. The nation’s privacy authority announced that it had fined the corporation over its dishonest use of ad cookies, which is now the largest this year. When a user visits a website, a web server creates and... 

Elon Musk, the head of Twitter, has suggested he is open to building his own “alternative” smartphone if internet companies decide to deplatform his social media platform, implying he may have no other choice. Musk said he would not rule it out, though he expressed some ambivalence toward the idea, in response to a suggestion from conservative commentator Liz Wheeler that the billionaire... 

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has produced a virtual reality headgear that willfully murders people. The technology, called “NerveGear,” works to connect people’s actual life and virtual life by ending both at the same time. According to Mr. Luckey, if a person is murdered while using the headgear for a virtual reality game or experience, they will also be killed simultaneously in... 

A researcher warned parents that voice assistants Siri and Alexa are creating rude and antisocial children. Dr. Anmol Arora of the University of Cambridge said children’s interactions with these voice assistant devices at a young age may be a critical factor as to how they will develop later on in life. He wrote in a paper published in Archives of Disease in Childhood: “Interacting with the devices... 

Google Play, the Android smartphone-based app store, has unveiled sweeping new rules that ban apps deemed to contain or promote “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or (that) can cause harm to users.” Issued on August 31, Google Play’s new “health misinformation” policy is an in-app censorship sweep that targets any and all apps that even so much as question... 

Russian software entrepreneur Pavel Durov, who runs the company behind the popular messaging app Telegram, has slammed US tech giants for abusing their dominant market position. The latest tirade, which Durov shared on Telegram on Wednesday, was triggered by Apple apparently stalling the release of a new version of his messenger. “Our upcoming update – which is about to revolutionize how people... 

Representatives of Telegram provided the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) with access to users’ personal data in a number of cases related to child abuse and terrorism, Spiegel reported on Friday. According to the German newspaper, the data belong to suspected terrorists and child abusers. However, it is still difficult for German investigators to obtain information from representatives... 

Apple has unveiled a new pregnant man emoji for all iPhone users as part of its ‘woke’ update to be unrolled later this year. Despite the fact that men cannot get pregnant, Emojipedia’s emoji draft list that included a ‘pregnant man’ emoji was approved for some users in September 2021. The new emojis “recognize that pregnancy is possible for some transgender men and non-binary people,”... 

A notorious group of online cyber-warriors which has pressured Russian businesses over what it claims are manifestations of multiculturalism and pro-LGBT+ sentiments could soon see its channels taken down, its founder has said. In a statement published online and seen by local media on Tuesday, Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the founder of Male State, said that the Telegram messaging service had threatened... 

District of Columbia and 35 US states filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, accusing the tech giant of violating antitrust laws on its Android app store. The plaintiff states claim Google is monopolizing the app store and abusing the power it has over app developers, while also phasing out competition over how users download and pay for apps on their Android devices. “Google uses anticompetitive... 

The gaming industry has provided gamers all over the world with lots of games to enjoy. But not only that, it has brought these gamers eternal memories of joyous moments regardless if the gamers enjoyed single-player or multiplayer games. There’s no question that the pile of games keeps growing bigger and bigger as new games come out each year. But the number of gamers grows significantly as well.... 

US research has found that a drop in casual sex among young people is linked to, among other things, boys’ obsession with gaming. RT.com spoke to the report’s authors to learn why the youth of today are spurning the opposite sex. ‘When I were a lad…’ as the old saying goes, my mates and I would try to sneak into the pubs underage or, when that inevitably failed, just sit on the swings down... 

With all its talk of black-on-white war, YouTube’s “hate speech”-filtering AI can’t tell the difference between chess players and violent racists. Perhaps leaving robots in charge of the English language isn’t such a good idea. Chess is now seen as racist for also white moving first. Croatian chess player Antonio Radic, known to his million subscribers as ‘Agadmator,’ runs the world’s... 

If you are still under the delusion that you can bargain with Big Tech or that the free market will fix this problem, I don’t know what to say to you. Your autistic ideology has been discredited. TAC: “I want to put an end to cancel culture like every other freedom-loving American, but I certainly don’t trust the federal government to be our savior. I voted for and support Section 230 because...