Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission proposes revising privacy laws to eliminate prior consent requirements for collecting sensitive data like race, social status, and medical records, aiming to boost AI innovation while balancing privacy rights.

Apple's Vision Pro saw active apps drop from 2,500 to under 1,900 in a year due to its $3,500 price, leading to halved production and user discomfort returns. Developers are frustrated over strict App Store exclusivity, weak multitasking tools, and missing features like Safari profiles, accelerating app attrition.

OpenAI banned Chinese accounts linked to authorities for using ChatGPT to build social media surveillance tools aimed at tracking anti-China protests, violating policies against AI misuse for unauthorized monitoring amid concerns over authoritarian exploitation of U.S. AI tech.

Microsoft faced user reports of a broken File Explorer and system instability after its Windows 11 24H2 update (KB5051987) in February 2025, with affected users resorting to manual uninstallation to resolve crashes linked to a critical UI bug.

Tesla recalled over 375,000 U.S. vehicles, mostly 2023 Model 3 and Model Y, after overstressed circuit boards disabled power steering assist, raising crash risks in stop-and-go traffic by abruptly halting steering assistance.

Xi Jinping is repairing relations with tech leaders like Alibaba’s Jack Ma after years of regulatory crackdowns, aiming to reignite economic growth and counter U.S. tech competition by leveraging private-sector innovation while aligning corporate ambitions with Communist Party priorities.

Elon Musk's cost-cutting spurred layoffs at the NHTSA, the agency probing Tesla’s deadly Autopilot crashes and a 2023 recall of 2 million vehicles, amid his public criticism of its "innovation-stifling" oversight and federal streamlining directives mandating agencies to collaborate with Musk’s team.

Tesla delayed its Indian manufacturing plans amid a stalemate with the government, which insists on a $500 million local production commitment and domestic manufacturing within three years before lowering EV import taxes, while Tesla pushes to first sell imported vehicles with reduced tariffs to assess market viability.

Chinese scientists developed a synthetic aperture lidar (SAL) system that can capture facial details as small as 1.7 mm from 100 km away, tested over Qinghai Lake, risking exposure of space infrastructure vulnerabilities and potential use in military surveillance.

Vikings endured tooth decay, chronic infections, and arthritis despite their robust image, as scans of 15 skulls revealed, with their protein-rich diet and active lifestyle unable to offset medieval medicine’s limits. Separately, three Baltic women had cone-shaped skulls, a cultural marker among elites to signify status or ties to distant groups.

Prehistoric children likely crafted clay figurines using self-sourced local materials, with irregular styles contrasting with standardized adult-made ivory carvings, suggesting kids shaped some figures as toys while others held ritual roles in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

NASA’s SPHEREx, launching on February 27, 2025, will map cosmic inflation’s trillion-trillionfold universe expansion, trace water molecules to uncover planetary origins, and chart galaxy evolution via infrared all-sky surveys, prioritizing targets for telescopes like JWST with its four comprehensive scans.

Coinbase must face a jury trial after a federal judge ruled that the SEC’s lawsuit, accusing the exchange of operating as an unregistered securities platform since 2019 and profiting from alleged unlawful crypto transactions, can proceed, with the trial unlikely to start before 2025.

Bybit lost a record $1.4 billion in Ethereum to a Lazarus Group hack on February 21, 2025, after attackers exploited a spoofed UI and manipulated a cold wallet’s smart contract, with the exchange offering a 10% bounty for recovery help and borrowing to secure 80% of the stolen assets, linked to North Korean operatives by blockchain sleuth ZachXBT.

Coinbase must face a jury trial after a federal judge ruled that the SEC’s lawsuit, accusing the exchange of operating as an unregistered securities platform since 2019 and profiting from alleged unlawful crypto transactions, can proceed, with the trial unlikely to start before 2025.

Bybit lost a record $1.4 billion in Ethereum to a Lazarus Group hack on February 21, 2025, after attackers exploited a spoofed UI and manipulated a cold wallet’s smart contract, with the exchange offering a 10% bounty for recovery help and borrowing to secure 80% of the stolen assets, linked to North Korean operatives by blockchain sleuth ZachXBT.