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Two 15-year-olds have filed a constitutional challenge against Australia’s upcoming under-16 social media ban, arguing the law unlawfully restricts young people’s political expression.

Shared council systems in London have been disrupted by a cyberattack now under review by security agencies.

The updated ChatGPT interface blends voice, text and images while letting users revisit conversations through a built-in transcript.

WhatsApp’s new rules remove all LLM chatbots, prompting Copilot’s exit while Microsoft directs users to mobile and web platforms that offer richer features instead of limited messaging access.

Organisations prepare for a shift toward coordinated agentic systems, offering greater autonomy and reliability instead of isolated tools that struggle to scale inside complex enterprise environments.

Officials highlight the economic impact of Nokia’s expanded research campus, reinforcing Canada’s ambitions to lead future telecommunications and advanced networking innovation.

Lawmakers say stronger EU powers are vital to curb non-compliant goods entering the market.

The Met Office has published a new framework describing how machine learning can be combined with physics-based models to make weather and climate predictions faster, more flexible and potentially more accurate.