# US president Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to shoot and kill any boat that is laying mines in the critical Strait of Hormuz. This comes after American forces announced earlier this month that they would intercept vessels travelling to or from Iran’s ports. US Central Command has ordered 31 vessels to turn […]
# Die Amerikaanse tegnologiemaatskappy, Meta, is besig om nuwe beheerfunksies bekend te stel wat ouers in staat sal stel om die onderwerpe te sien wat hul kinders met hul kunsmatige intelligensie-assistent bespreek. Die opdatering laat ouers ook toe om sekere KI-funksies te blokkeer of die gebruik van kletsbotte vir minderjariges af te skakel. Die maatskappy, […]
# Die Trump-administrasie het meer as vier-duisend werknemers van sommige van die land se top wetstoepassingsagentskappe afgedank, dit terwyl die regering belowe om strenger teen misdaad op te tree. Rekords wat deur Reuters van die Amerikaanse Departement van Justisie verkry is, toon die totale aantal werknemers by die FBI het met meer as sewe-persent sedert […]
# Die Europese Unie het Donderdag amptelik ‘n lening van 1,7-duisend-miljard-rand aan Oekraïne goedgekeur en nuwe sanksies teen Rusland ingestel. Dit is voor ‘n informele beraad van die blok se leiers in Ciprus wat deur die Oekraïense president Volodymir Zelensky bygewoon sal word. Die lening sal na verwagting twee-derdes van Oekraïne se behoeftes vir die […]
# Die Amerikaanse Departement van Justisie het die amptelike klassifikasie van dagga verander van ‘n Bylae Een-narkotiese middel na ‘n Bylae drie-dwelm, wat dit in dieselfde kategorie as Tylenol met kodeïen plaas. President Donald Trump het verlede jaar ‘n uitvoerende bevel onderteken wat sy administrasie gelas om die herklassifikasieproses te begin om toegang tot en […]
# American technology company, Meta, is rolling out new parental control features that will allow parents to see the topics their children discuss with its artificial intelligence assistant. The update also allows parents to block certain AI features or turn off chatbot use for minors. The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, says the […]
# The European Union on Thursday formally approved a 1.7-trillion-rand loan to Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia, ahead of an informal summit of the bloc’s leaders in Cyprus which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend. The loan is set to cover two-thirds of Ukraine’s needs for the next two years. European Commission chief Ursula […]
# The US Department of Justice has officially reclassified how it views cannabis. The move changes cannabis, also known as marijuana, from a Schedule I narcotic to a Schedule III drug, placing it in the same category as Tylenol with codeine. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last year directing his administration to begin […]
# The Trump administration has cut more than four-thousand employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime. Records obtained by Reuters from the US Justice Department’s management unit, show that the total number of employees at the FBI has dropped more than seven-percent since the […]
