⛔️ Unblockable

iMessage is almost impossible to block in any country where iPhones are common. Here is why → its architecture makes nationwide restrictions so difficult.

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🧠 Person of the Year (Sort of)

TIME has named its 2025 Person of the Year, and it is not a person at all.

Instead, the title went to a group of industry leaders → collectively branded as The Architects of AI.

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🛸 Didn’t even last a month

OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5.2, now billed as its best model → for everyday and professional tasks.

It handles long context more reliably and delivers stronger performance in development and other complex workloads.

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🍏 Apple wins again

A US appeals court has ruled that Apple can charge → developers a commission for including links to third-party payment services in their apps.

The decision stems from the ongoing Epic Games case, which seeks to enable alternative payment methods without Apple’s fees.

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🤩 The comeback of the year?

Startup Operation Bluebird has filed a petition → to strip Elon Musk’s X Corp. of the Twitter and tweet trademarks.

The team has already secured a new domain for a potential comeback platform.

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😏 Not today, Australia

Reddit has taken Australia to the High Court, demanding the repeal → of the country’s under-16 social media ban. The company argues the law interferes with free political communication.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 Dubai just played the world’s largest game of Tetris using 4,000 drones.

💘 Apple’s upcoming features for iOS 26.4, iOS 27 and iOS 28 have been revealed.

💘 The sale of TikTok’s US business is at risk of being delayed again — for the fifth time.

💘 Google has started testing real-time speech translation powered by Gemini.

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😏 Explain this one, please

20 US states are suing the Trump administration → over its new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful barrier that harms employers and research institutions relying on skilled foreign talent.

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💅 Well, someone finally did it

South Korea will bring its Artificial Intelligence Act into force on January 22, 2026, becoming the first country → to implement a fully comprehensive regulatory framework for AI.

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🍏 Just rumors, but…

Apple’s foldable iPhone → may drop Face ID.

According to a leak, Apple is testing an engineering prototype with a side-mounted Touch ID fingerprint scanner instead.

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🙂 Did anyone ask?

Starting next year, Xiaomi plans to ship most of its smartphones sold outside China and the US with a preinstalled crypto wallet, Sei Wallet.

The move → follows a global partnership with Sei Labs, aimed at pushing blockchain features to a mainstream audience.

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🍏 What’s New?

Apple has released iOS 26.3 Beta 1 for developers. The update → adds an easier switch to Android, notification forwarding to third-party wearables, and separate Weather wallpapers.

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🚀 “The Populist”

Journalist Nikolai Kononov has released → a new book, “The Populist: The Untold Story of Pavel Durov and Telegram” — a continuation of The Durov Code.

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😻 Not this kind of Premium

Hackers from ShinyHunters claim → they’ve stolen data from Pornhub’s premium users and are threatening to leak it publicly.

The scale of the breach is still unclear, but journalists have verified parts of the data as authentic.

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🦴 ChatGPT Gets a DJ

OpenAI has announced Apple Music → integration for ChatGPT.

Users will be able to connect their Apple Music accounts and control music with natural language prompts.

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🤗 Thanks for sharing

Google’s Project Zero team has disclosed → a Windows 11 vulnerability after saying Microsoft failed to fully fix the issue.

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🕹 More than videos

YouTube has launched a beta tool → for creating small games, powered by Gemini 3 and designed to work without any coding.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 SpaceX quietly bought more than 1,000 Cybertrucks, helping boost Tesla’s sales figures as demand for the pickup continues to fall short of expectations.

💘 Google has officially delayed the full replacement of Google Assistant with Gemini.

💘 Elon Musk met with Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan in Dubai.

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