ByteDance agrees to withdraw its ‘addictive’ TikTok Lite app for teens in Europe
TikTok Lite lets under-18s collect points by watching videos and exchange these for prizes like vouchers or gift cards.
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Nobel-winning microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus should lead caretaker Bangladesh government, student leaders say
Longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina, 76, who had been in power since 2009, fled the country after she was accused of rigging January elections and watched millions of people take to the streets demanding she quit.
Turkish penpal duo publish one of the nation’s best-selling novels through prison bars
While the idea originally sought to keep the prisoner busy, the duo soon wrapped 13 chapters.
IBM’s former head of AI says Big Tech needs to end arms race in LLMs to ditch its carbon backpack
Seth Dobrin favors energy-efficient small language models and calls for a new ‘paradigm of cooling’ to solve AI's growing sustainability dilemma.
Olympic boxer Imane Khelif hailed a ‘heroine’ by her home village despite gender row
Imane has found herself in the middle of a heated global row after it emerged that she had previously failed unspecified gender eligibility tests.
Pope Francis reveals his summer reading list and love for tragedies as he encourages young priests to read a ‘good’ book
In his letter the Pope made references to literary greats like C.S. Lewis, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot and fellow Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges.
4 die and over 1,600 flights cancelled after Tropical Storm Debby slams Florida
Debby made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Florida early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane. It since has weakened to a tropical storm and is moving slowly.
It’s not the Fed’s job to make the stock market ‘comfortable’ says Fed president
Analysts holding out for the Fed to rescue the stock market might be waiting in vain
Philippines’ first male Olympic gold medalist in history given a fully furnished $555,000 condo to go with his medals
Philippines gymnast won’t just be walking away from this summer’s Games with a medal—he also won a fully furnished $550,000 condo, over $300,000 in cash and colonoscopies for life.
