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TikTok restores service in US after Trump pledge

TikTok is resuming services to its 170 million users in US after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to give the app a reprieve when he takes office on Monday.

Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users.

Iran lift 2-year ban on WhatsApp, Google Play

Iranians can now access WhatsApp and Google Play without a VPN after the government lifted a two-year ban, signaling a shift in internet restrictions, but the fight for full online freedom continues.

TikTok turns to US Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to avert ban

TikTok made a last-ditch effort on Monday to continue operating in the United States, asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law intended to force ByteDance, its China-based parent company, to divest the short-video app by Jan. 19 or face a ban.

Over 10,000 fibre optic cable cuts reported across Ghana

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) and the Electronic Money Issuers (EMIs) Chamber of Ghana have disclosed that between January and November, there were a total of 10,233 fibre optic cable cuts across the country.

Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip

Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete.

US proposes breakup of Google to end search monopoly

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.