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“To comply, we are having to strip away real-time Search features Europeans love—like instant pricing and direct availability for hotels, flights, ‌and restaurants—and dismantle safety protections on Google Play,” Walker said. “Regulation should improve products, not make them worse,” he added. Since last September, Google has advocated for a “reset” of the DMA, warning that US tech giants face “considerable uncertainty and unpredictability” trying to comply. Google has maintained that the DMA currently favors “commercial interests of a small set of intermediary sites” and complying has already delayed some of Google’s AI features “by up to a year.” However, the…

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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after landing in Air Force One on July 19, 2026 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump said he will soon make a decision on whether to launch a “massive attack” on Iran after the conflict in the Middle East extended to a new battleground in the Red Sea. Speaking to Axios on Thursday, the president said the proposed strikes would be bigger than anything seen in the war so far, and that Iran has not “received enough pain yet.””I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever…

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee at BEXCO convention and exhibition centre in Busan on July 19, 2026. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty ImagesSouth Korean President Lee Jae Myung invoked Japan’s epochal property crash in the early 1990s, stoking concerns about Seoul’s real estate market as he prepares to revise taxes aimed at stabilizing the housing sector. Lee said “quite a few people” were concerned the country could face Japan’s “lost” 20…

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Investing.com – Japan stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication sectors led shares lower. At the close in Tokyo, the declined 2.79%. The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Shift Inc (), which rose 8.21% or 61.20 points to trade at 807.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Toho Co., Ltd. () added 6.48% or 88.00 points to end at 1,446.50 and BayCurrent Consulting Inc () was up 4.69% or 292.00 points to 6,522.00 in late trade. The worst performers of the session were Disco Corp (),…

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The U.S. Capitol is seen on March 16, 2026, in Washington.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesRep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, on Thursday introduced a bill called the “AI Kill Switch Act,” which would require artificial intelligence companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle or suspend their models.”Unfortunately, powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist human intervention,” Lieu said in a statement. “It is imperative that these AI systems have kill switches so we can keep this technology from causing catastrophic harm, and that the federal government has the…

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A German national flag on a barge near the Volkswagen AG factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGerman auto giant Volkswagen on Friday reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter profit, citing the discontinuation of its top electric vehicle in the U.S. and negative mix effects, as it revised down its sales forecast for 2026.Europe’s biggest carmaker posted an operating profit of 3.5 billion euros ($3.98 billion) for the April to June period, down nearly 10% from a year ago and missing expectations of 4.3 billion euros, according to an LSEG-compiled consensus. The company also flagged it…

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With the genome sequencing, the researchers estimated that the bacteria in the two urine samples diverged from a common ancestor one to two years before the woman’s current state. Then, more recently, the hypervirulent urine bacteria disseminated, spreading to the woman’s brain. The woman’s doctors noted that two years before her brain abscess, she was hospitalized with a urinary tract infection. Heterovirulence Bacterial evolution within a single patient is not particularly new. Infecting bacteria often adapt to have a fitness advantage in their victim. But in most cases, the variant with the biggest edge overtakes the population. In less common…

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Soldiers from the US Army in a simulated village during the Combined Resolve “Greywolves” exercise at the US military Hohenfels Training Area in Hohenfels, Germany, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Pentagon lowered its official death toll for the Iran war to 14 from 18 in the space of a day, after the Trump administration removed four service members killed this month from the count, according to the defense casualty analysis system. The Pentagon’s casualty database showed seven of the 14 total deaths were classified as “hostile.” The New York Times reported the change…

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