Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

California has passed a new law requiring streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and YouTube to keep commercial volumes the same as regular content.

OpenAI is introducing a major new feature for ChatGPT — the ability to use third-party apps directly within the chatbot.

Instagram, the iconic photo and video sharing platform owned by Meta, celebrates its 15th anniversary this month.

Bitcoin has reached a new record high, trading above $125,000 for the first time.

Elon Musk announced on Sunday that an early beta of Grokipedia, an xAI-built competitor to Wikipedia, will launch in two weeks.

Signal has announced the rollout of Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet (SPQR), a new cryptographic upgrade designed to safeguard communications against future quantum computing threats.

Pricing starts at $59.90 for nine months under an early-bird deal, but after that, Neon will cost $19.90 per month.

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to launch a free, ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming, giving players the ability to stream select titles without a Game Pass subscription. According to The Verge, the company has already begun internal testing of the service.

Brave browser has officially surpassed 101 million monthly active users and 42 million daily active users in September 2025, marking a major milestone in its growth.

Adobe is warning Analytics customers of a serious data ingestion bug that briefly mixed information between organizations, causing data from some customers to appear in others’ analytics instances.

Spotify is rolling out a new feature that gives listeners more control over their music recommendations. Starting today, free and Premium users worldwide can exclude individual tracks from their “Taste Profile” across the platform’s web, desktop, and mobile apps.

More than five years after its debut, Xbox Cloud Gaming is officially leaving beta. “We’re officially removing the beta tag from Xbox Cloud Gaming,” said Dustin Blackwell, Microsoft’s director of gaming and platform communications, in a briefing with The Verge.

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Zillow and Redfin, accusing the companies of striking an illegal deal that reduced competition in the rental listings market.

Instagram is experimenting with a major redesign that puts short-form video at the center of the app.

Starting this November, PayPal users will be able to search for and pay Venmo users directly—initially via phone numbers, and later via email addresses.

Microsoft is experimenting with a new feature that gives its AI assistant Copilot an animated human face.

Image-sharing platform Imgur has shut off access to users in the UK after a warning from the country’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over potential data law violations.

OpenAI is rolling out new parental controls for ChatGPT on web and mobile starting Monday, following a lawsuit filed by parents of a teenager who died by suicide after allegedly receiving self-harm guidance from the chatbot.

DeepSeek researchers have released a new experimental model, V3.2-exp, designed to reduce inference costs in long-context AI operations significantly.

YouTube has reached a $24.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by former U.S. President Donald Trump in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal.