2026-07-28

Tennessee tells jury Meta knew Instagram harmed teens and stayed silent

A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping teenagers glued to Instagram were “inherently at odds with well-being”, and that the company then chose to say nothing about it. The line comes from a 2017 document that the state of Tennessee has placed […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-28

Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine

Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are already turning the ruling into ammunition. The European Commission fined Google €890mn on 23 July, roughly $1bn at current rates, and the rivals who have spent years chasing the search giant through European courts now see the infringement finding as […]<br /> This sto [...]

2026-07-28

ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture

ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised $25.5 million in a seed round to scale the trapped-ion processors it is building on a new two-dimensional architecture. The money builds on the $4.2 million pre-seed round the company closed in 2025, and it arrives as ZuriQ pushes to increase the number of qubits its […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]

2026-07-28

I wore the two best Amazfit smartwatches for a month - Is the flagship worth $230 more?

Is the Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra worth the extra cost versus the Amazfit Balance 3? Here's what I found after living with both for a month. [...]

2026-07-28

Gen Z uses AI every day. They trust it less every week

If your AI roadmap assumes young people will lead adoption, you’re building on a myth. [...]

2026-07-28

The ‘dead internet theory’ is real. And it’s killing the web as we know it

If you can’t monetize human attention, what do you monetize? [...]

2026-07-28

Australia’s world-first data centre rules hit their first snag: the power isn’t there yet

Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law. The demand is barely a fortnight old, and it has already met the most basic of objections: the electricity the industry is meant to supply cannot be […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-28

Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker

Taiwan’s investigation into smuggled AI hardware, which began with Super Micro and had spent months working through the island’s distributors, has now reached inside Nvidia itself. On July 28, prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee as part of the probe into whether restricted AI servers were being routed to China, Bloomberg first reported, the first time the […]<br /> This story cont [...]

2026-07-28

Orange raises full-year targets on Spain deal and Africa growth

Orange raised its full-year financial targets on Tuesday, after posting record first-half growth and, for the first time, consolidating its Spanish business in full. The French group now expects EBITDAaL, the after-leases profit measure that the industry watches most closely, to grow by more than 4% across 2026, up from earlier guidance of above 3%. It […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]