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In an overnight vote on 26–27 Jan 2026, France’s lower house passed a bill 130–21 that would bar anyone under 15 from creating or keeping social-media accounts and aims to activate the ban by 1 Sep 2026.
On 26 Jan 2026 Brussels opened a formal DSA investigation into X after its Grok AI tool was caught generating and circulating non-consensual sexual images of women and children.
On 26 Jan 2026, Microsoft released its second-generation Maia 200 AI chip into production data-centres and invited third-party developers to build on it, marking the company’s first broad rollout of in-house silicon for large-scale inference.
On 25 Jan 2026 President Emmanuel Macron ordered Parliament to use its accelerated procedure so a bill barring children under 15 from all major social-media platforms can take legal effect at the start of the 2026-27 school year in September.
On 24 Jan 2026 the Ethereum Foundation moved from research to execution, unveiling a dedicated Post-Quantum (PQ) team—led by Thomas Coratger and funded with $2 million—to retrofit Ethereum’s core protocol for quantum-resistant cryptography.
On 23 Jan 2026, plaintiffs from five continents sued Meta in San Francisco federal court, claiming the firm can read supposedly encrypted WhatsApp messages and seeking class-action status for the app’s 2 billion users.
On 24 Jan 2026, security analyst Jeremiah Fowler located—and after a month persuaded the host to remove—an unprotected cloud repository containing 149,404,754 previously stolen usernames and passwords.
On 10 Feb 2025, under a U.S. warrant, Microsoft supplied BitLocker recovery keys for three seized laptops—marking the company’s inaugural confirmed hand-over of Windows full-disk-encryption keys to law enforcement.
On 23 Jan 2026, an international group of WhatsApp users filed for class-action status in San Francisco, claiming Meta secretly stores and can read supposedly end-to-end-encrypted chats.
On 22 Jan 2026 South Korea began enforcing its 2024 AI Basic Act, the first fully-implemented national law that obliges companies to watermark deepfakes, notify users of generative AI and place human monitors over “high-impact” systems.
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