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On 16 June 2026 India invoked IT Act §69A to blackout Telegram nationwide from 17-22 June and ordered the app’s message-editing feature turned off for all Indian accounts until 30 June, aiming to stop alleged exam-paper scams before the 21 June NEET re-test.
On 12 June 2026, a Commerce Department directive gave Anthropic barely 90 minutes to bar all non-US citizens from its just-launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, so the company pulled both models offline for every user worldwide.
On 17 June 2026 Google began shipping the final Android 17 build to Pixel 6-series and newer devices and simultaneously posted the source code to AOSP, kicking off a months-long vendor rollout.
A shallow M6.7 earthquake struck 42 km southeast of Palu on 16 June 2026, injuring at least eight people and triggering an immediate provincial emergency response across three regencies.
On 16 June 2026 the IT Ministry, acting on an NTA request, ordered all Indian ISPs and app stores to block Telegram until 22 June and to disable its message-editing function locally until 30 June in an attempt to thwart alleged exam-cheating networks before the 21 June NEET-UG re-examination.
On 16 June 2026, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced that France’s domestic intelligence agency will phase out Palantir’s Gotham platform and migrate to French-made ChapsVision tools, reversing a December 2025 renewal and openly citing the need to end reliance on US AI suppliers.
On 12 June 2026 Anthropic abruptly disabled access to its newest frontier models for all non-U.S. nationals after receiving a Commerce Department national-security directive, instantly exposing global firms’ dependence on a single American AI supplier.
London unveiled draft regulations to outlaw under-16 access to mainstream social-media platforms, pledging to pass the rules by Christmas 2026 and activate them in spring 2027.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced legislation that will block anyone below 16 from accessing major social media and certain gaming/chat services, with enforcement slated to begin nationwide by spring 2027.
On 15 June 2026, PM Keir Starmer pledged to bar under-16s from all major social-media and live-stream platforms, with regulations drafted this year and the ban taking effect by spring 2027.
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