🕸 Pavel Durov Launches Cocoon
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has announced the launch of Cocoon (Confidential Compute Open Network) — a decentralized confidential computing network built on the TON blockchain.
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🧠 Qwen3-VL by Alibaba Outperforms GPT-5 and Gemini
Alibaba has published a technical report on its open multimodal model Qwen3-VL.
🇮🇹 Italy Requires Key Sports and Cultural Events to Be Shown Free-to-Air
Italy has approved a new, stricter list of “events of major societal importance” that must be made available for free-to-air viewing.
⚖️ Streaming Services Required to Invest in Australian Content
Australia has passed one of the world’s strictest SVoD regulations.
👶 European Parliament Adopts Report on Protecting Children Online
The European Parliament has approved a report on protecting minors on the internet, calling for urgent action against growing risks such as addictive behavior, disinformation, and mental health issues.
⏳ European Space Program Faces a Delay
The ministerial meeting of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Bremen encountered its first setback: ministers from 27 countries were unable to approve a joint budget of €22.5 billion.
😱 French Thematic Channels Are Losing Hundreds of Millions
Over the past ten years, French thematic TV channels have lost around €800 million in distribution revenue. Advertising revenue over the same period has fallen by 40%, according to the trade association ACCES.
📛 Netflix Couldn’t Handle Stranger Things
The streaming platform Netflix “went down” just minutes after the release of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things.
👮♂️ Operator Receives Suspended Sentence in Germany
The District Court of Aachen (Germany) has sentenced the operator of Share-Online — one of the largest illegal file-hosting platforms — to a two-year suspended prison term.
🛍 Advertising in News Outperforms Expectations
According to a global study by the DoubleVerify platform, news content has become a highly effective environment for advertisers.