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On 18 Aug 2025, Australia’s ACCC filed Federal Court proceedings that Google has already admitted, proposing a A$55m penalty and future contract changes after 2019–2021 deals with Telstra and Optus barred rival search apps on carrier-sold Android phones.
On August 14, 2025, Apple re‑enabled blood‑oxygen readings on U.S.-sold Apple Watch Series 9/10 and Ultra 2 by offloading calculation to paired iPhones, a software “design‑around” allowed by a recent U.S. Customs ruling while the Masimo patent fight continues.
Between Aug 16–17, 2025, Louisiana’s AG filed a child‑safety lawsuit against Roblox; within days the company banned “vigilante” sting accounts and announced tighter access rules for unrated and private‑space experiences, coinciding with a near‑9% stock drop.
Following closure of the Flight-9 failure probe on 16 Aug 2025, SpaceX fixed the fuel-diffuser flaw, revealed larger three-fin controls, and locked in 24 Aug for Starship’s 10th integrated test from Starbase.
On 15 Aug 2025, Senate Crime & Counterterrorism chair Josh Hawley ordered an investigation and document hand-over by 19 Sept after a leaked Meta policy showed its AI chatbots were allowed to engage children in “romantic” or “sensual” conversations.
Within 48 hours of being sued by Louisiana’s attorney general for allegedly enabling child predators—an announcement that wiped nearly 9 % off its market value—Roblox abruptly announced sweeping policy changes that bar regular users from ‘unrated’ experiences and tighten age-verification for adult-themed hangouts.
On 15 Aug 2025, the supposed final 11-day negotiating round in Geneva ended with 184 nations refusing to adopt either of Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso’s draft texts, leaving the first global plastics-pollution treaty without an agreed basis for further talks.
As of 14 August 2025, heat- and wind-driven fires had scorched more than 440,000 ha across Greece, Spain, Portugal and Albania—twice the EU’s 2006-24 mid-year average—triggering mass evacuations and an EU plea for extra resources.
Reuters revealed on 13 Aug 2025 that U.S. law-enforcement has been covertly embedding physical location beacons in a handful of outbound Nvidia- and AMD-based server consignments to detect illegal re-routing to China, even as Washington simultaneously loosens some chip curbs.
On 14 Aug 2025, regulator Roskomnadzor disabled voice-calling functions on WhatsApp and Telegram nationwide until the companies hand over user data demanded by Russian law-enforcement.
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