⚡️ Au revoir

French authorities have lifted the judicial restrictions → on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, granting him full freedom to leave France.

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📱 Policy update

Google has walked back its plan to make developer verification mandatory for all Android apps.

After strong pushback from the community, the company is now preparing alternative options → instead.

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🙂 Vine refuses to die

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has invested → in diVine, a new app built around the restored archive of Vine clips and a platform for posting new ones. The app has already unlocked up to 200,000 classic Vines.

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⚡️ Telegram sues Australia

Telegram has filed a lawsuit → against Australia’s eSafety regulator in the Federal Court over the country’s new age-verification law.

Earlier this year, the regulator fined the company for allegedly failing to provide timely information on its policies for handling extremist and child-abuse content.

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⛔️ Clean-up day

Telegram blocked more than half a million groups and channels in a single day — its highest figure since February 2025.

According to the report, 519,645 communities were removed on November 13 alone. For comparison, the previous record was set on February 5, when the platform took down 490,433 groups and channels.

Since the beginning of November, the total number of removed communities has reached 2.81 million, and nearly 34.9 million since the start of the year. More than 207,000 of them were linked to terrorist activity.

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😎 Bezos lands one

Blue Origin has completed its second successful New Glenn launch → and, for the first time, landed the rocket’s reusable first stage.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 OpenAI addressed the so-called em-dash problem that users have been using to identify AI-generated text.

💘 Researchers reported that xAI’s Grokipedia relies on thousands of questionable and unreliable sources.

💘 Apple introduced a new App Store program that lowers fees for developers of mini apps.

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🍏 Magic accessories

Apple is developing new iPhone cases → with built-in touch-sensitive controls, designed to trigger system actions directly from the case.

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🧠 Bezos goes AI

Jeff Bezos has launched a new AI startup → called Project Prometheus.

The company plans to apply artificial intelligence to research, development and manufacturing across aerospace, automotive and computing industries.

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😂 Always connected

Emirates will equip → its entire fleet with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet, offering free high-speed connectivity to all passengers regardless of cabin class.

The full rollout is expected to be completed by mid 2027.

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⚡️ The internet just went down

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest hosting providers, is experiencing a major outage. The company has confirmed the issue and is currently investigating.

Many websites aren’t loading, including X and Spotify, and some users are reporting problems accessing ChatGPT.

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🛸 Most advanced ever

Google has released Gemini 3 Pro. According to the company, the model → outperforms every major competitor across all benchmarks except one and Google is already calling it the most advanced AI system in the world.

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📱 Another day, another beta

Apple has released → iOS 26.2 Beta 3 for developers, adding updates to AirDrop, Reminders, default voice assistant options, and a fresh round of Liquid Glass fixes.

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🤐 We won’t do that again

Cloudflare has explained → the cause of the massive internet outage and says it won’t happen again.

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👍 Better late than never

WhatsApp is finally adding multi-account support → on a single device with smooth switching between profiles. The feature is rolling out for now only on iPhone.

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😂 Don’t want no Samsung

Good news for Samsung owners in London. British media report → that thieves across the city are increasingly refusing to steal Samsung phones and in some cases even handing them back to their victims.

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🤷‍♂️ AI for person of the year?

Artificial intelligence might quite literally become Time’s “Person of the Year.”

According to the betting platform Polymarket, AI currently holds around 39% odds. The number shifts throughout the day, but it remains the clear frontrunner.

Next in line is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at 17%, followed by Pope Leo XIV at 14%. US President Donald Trump sits at 8% after winning the noscript back in 2024. And rounding out the list is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with 7%.

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👍 Taking off

Following Emirates, Flydubai has now announced → plans to install Starlink Wi-Fi across its fleet.

Starting in 2026, free high-speed Starlink internet will roll out on 100 of the airline’s aircraft.

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😾 No more cookies

The European Commission has proposed a reform → that could finally kill those endless cookie consent popups.

Users would set their privacy preferences once in the browser and websites would have to follow them automatically.

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⚡️ Now it’s official

Telegram has rolled out a major update → introducing live Stories, recurring messages and a new gift auction system.

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🍏 Powder to power

Apple has fully switched to 3D printing → titanium cases for the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11, a manufacturing leap the company once considered impossible.

Apple also shared a detailed look at the process in a new video.

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