💅 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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🤐 The one you were afraid of

ChatGPT has introduced Year in Review. Users can now see → their personal yearly stats inside the chatbot.

The feature is rolling out to users in the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

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🎧 Music heist

A pirate activist group downloaded Spotify’s music catalog, exposing more than 86 million tracks.

The leak → included audio files and metadata and was distributed publicly via P2P torrents totaling around 300 TB.

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😸 Father of the year?

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said → he is willing to pay for IVF for unmarried women under 38 who want to have his child.

Biological children may be able to claim a share of his fortune “in 30 years.”

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🤔 Durov's Code

The head of Telegram shared a sketch of a logo for his sperm donation program, wondering how minimalist “pd” inside a circle looks.

💘 The note also shows a probably joking domain, durov.cum. Earlier, Durov said he’s willing to pay for IVF for unmarried women under 38 who want to have his child.

Thoughts on the logo?

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☕️ Durov responds

Pavel Durov called his sperm donation program a “non-gay project.”

Earlier, the Telegram founder shared a sketch of a logo for the project, asking how minimalist “pd” inside a circle looks. One commenter pointed out that “pd” is French slang for “gay.”

Durov replied on X:

So it will be a non-gay project claiming it’s gay. Like France’s President — in reverse!

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😆 Fatality

A SpaceX Starlink satellite malfunctioned and was photographed in orbit shortly before reentering Earth’s atmosphere and burning up.

The failure drew attention → from engineers due to the unusual nature of the damage.

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😀 Goodbye, coolkid2001@gmail․com

Google is gradually rolling out → a feature that allows users to change their Gmail address.

Users will be able to replace their current address with a new one, without losing access to their account or data.

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