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‘Code Lyoko’ is officially returning with a brand-new sequel series currently in production, set to serve as Season 5. The project is currently in the writing stage, with the original creators and voice cast expected to return nearly 19 years after the show’s last season aired.

NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB graphics card is now listed at $13,250, making it one of the most expensive GPUs you can buy right now. The GPU originally launched with a suggested price of around $8,565, but current listings are much higher, likely because demand is strong and supply is still limited.

North Carolina banned under-16s from social media. The Supreme Court already ruled this unconstitutional. The bill passed 106 to 6.

uBlock will no longer make Chrome semi-usable.

Texas is now forcing app stores to verify a users’ age before they can access lawful information online. Today, CCIA asked the Supreme Court to block Texas’ App Store Accountability Act while the courts consider its constitutionality. Requiring Americans to show ID to download apps, from a weather app to a news app, is a sweeping restriction on speech, #privacy, and access to information. The #FirstAmendment protects the right to access lawful speech online. Read more: buff.ly/oGHOt53

Today, our government introduced new legislation to protect our kids online. Canada's Safe Social Media Act will hold social media and AI platforms accountable, make them safer, and restrict access to social media for children under 16. More and more kids are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and exploitation. To keep our kids safe, we have to ensure that our laws keep up with technology.

‼️ Google is about to disable all adblocker extensions in Chrome. Instead of letting the adblocker inspect traffic itself, extensions now have to hand Google's browser a limited list of filtering rules and hope for the best. This leads to weaker blocking and more ads getting through. Google makes the vast majority of its money selling ads. The company that profits from every ad you see also controls the browser most people use, with Chrome 149 being the last version supporting adblockers. For example, under the new rules, uBlock Origin cannot exist. For millions of people, that extension is the only thing standing between them and a wall of ads, trackers, and autoplay garbage. One user put it bluntly: "The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin."

The Doctor Who Christmas special for 2026 has been scrapped. Russell T Davies is also stepping down as showrunner, and his production company Bad Wolf is leaving the series too. It was a joint decision between them and the BBC. Davies has been running Doctor Who since the big 2023 comeback and guided Ncuti Gatwa through his two seasons as the Doctor. T

Gabe Newell’s son, Gray Newell, will compete in the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of the world’s toughest car races. The 24-hour race takes place on the Circuit de la Sarthe in France and is known for testing drivers, cars, and teams over a full day of non-stop racing. Gray Newell has been working his way up in endurance racing, and this year he will take on one of the sport’s biggest events.

Reports from Computex suggest that the next generation of gaming GPUs from Nvidia and AMD could be pushed back to late 2027 or even early 2028. Board partners expect both AMD’s RDNA 5 cards and Nvidia’s next GeForce lineup to arrive much later than usual. A possible reason is component shortages, as much of the advanced chip packaging and memory supply is currently being used for AI and data center hardware. If that’s the case, today’s RTX 50 series and Radeon RX 9000 series could stick around for nearly three years.

Microsoft’s plans for a $1 billion data center in Kenya are stalled because energy demands would require to “switch off half the country”

PM Starmer responds after a major tech company refuses to comply with UK law and protect Britain’s children