Sci-Tech

November 20, 2025 3:56 PM

Spanish court orders Meta to pay $550 mln to digital media companies

A Spanish court has ordered that the multinational tech company Meta pay 479 million euros ($552 million) to Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulation. Madrid's Commercial Court said on Thursday the compensation, to be paid out ...

November 19, 2025 6:44 PM

NASA set to release new images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

NASA is set on Wednesday to release new images of an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system. 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope l...

November 18, 2025 10:22 PM

Cloudflare restores services after outage impacts thousands of internet users

Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage on Tuesday at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. The company said the outage that began around 6.30 a.m. ET was caused by an automatically generated configura...

November 17, 2025 12:51 PM

Preventable cervical cancer kills a woman every two minutes: UN

One woman worldwide dies every two minutes due to cervical cancer -- a treatable and preventable disease --said the UN on Monday on the first official World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day. The day -- November 17 -- was designated by the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78.8) to raise aware...

November 13, 2025 11:34 PM

OpenAI backs startup aiming to block AI-enabled bioweapons

ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Thursday said it will invest in a startup focused on blocking bad actors from creating biological weapons powered by artificial intelligence. OpenAI is the lead investor in a $15 million seed round in Red Queen Bio, which is trying to make sure the AI industry's defenses are...

November 13, 2025 3:44 PM

Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable

A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs, a Deezer–Ipsos survey showed on Wednesday, underscoring growing concerns that AI could upend how music is created, consumed and monetised. The findings of the survey, for w...