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Oct 5, 2026TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements - Published TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293m) to the US to end a lawsuit alleging its platform violated children‘s privacy, marking one of the largest ever settlements over th...
Oct 5, 2026A Belgian car salesman has become a prince at the age of 26 after being acknowledged as the son of the king’s brother, Prince Laurent. Clément Vandenkerckhove’s mother, a Belgian singer who had a relationship with Prince Laurent in the 1990s, only to...
Oct 5, 2026The wordmark White type on black — the classic case. The whites are selected automatically. glows: whites Upload a logo, choose which colors should glow, download an HDR JPEG. On HDR screens the chosen parts shine up to 7.5× brighter than #FFFFFF. Ev...
Oct 5, 2026The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta: In macOS 27.0, hdiutil is deprecated. Use diskutil image instead for all disk image operations....
Oct 5, 2026This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many Reflect Orbital’s giant beams will shine as bright as 10,000 full moons and scatter light over tens of kilometers. A company that plans to beam sunlight from space t...
Oct 5, 2026Mother tongue A story about erasure “Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken), teeth (brushed), potty (tinkled), books (two), song (one, poorly sung),...
Oct 5, 2026The first time Andrea Greenhill came across a livestream auction for lab-grown diamonds while scrolling on TikTok, she was stunned. While the diamond engagement ring her husband proposed with years ago had cost thousands of dollars, these loose lab-g...
Oct 5, 2026Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe A Dutch data regulatory authority said that Uber has to pay 824.9 million euros for violating the GDPR. Uber has allegedly violated the European Union's General D...
Oct 5, 2026'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other rele...
Oct 5, 2026You can instantly curate your Discover feed now by telling Google exactly what you want Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways - Google is introducing several personalization updates. - You can now describe what y...
Oct 5, 2026If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; ...
Oct 5, 2026Amazon Prime Video is coming after TikTok with the addition of short-form news clips. The company said on Monday that it’s expanding its news coverage to include on-demand news clips offering both local and national stories. These will be available o...