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The European Union is tightening its grip on TikTok, announcing that the platform has still not done enough to protect minors using its service. Regulators say the findings could trigger a fine worth up to six percent of TikTok's annual global revenue, a number that would run into the billions.
Meanwhile, in the world of AI hardware, a company called GenStorAIGE is turning heads at WAIC two thousand twenty six with a storage-first approach to inference. Their AI ninety platform uses solid-state drives to dramatically expand effective memory, claiming that eight RTX fifty ninety GPUs can perform like forty six when running inference workloads. It is a creative workaround to the memory bottleneck that has long constrained large model deployment.
And on a quieter note, a security researcher discovered that the Vatican's official prayer app, Click to Pray, has been leaking the personal data of over seven hundred thousand users through an entirely open API endpoint since January. No authentication, no encryption barrier — just a user ID typed into a browser. The app, linked to the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, was reportedly still exposed at the time of publication.
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