Jess Weatherbed

Starting today, more than 100,000 online services, including social media and gaming platforms, search engines, and pornography sites, are now required by the Online Safety Act to tackle criminal activity on their platforms, or risk facing significant fines. Action against “illegal harms” — which includes terrorism, hate, fraud, child sexual abuse, and assisting or encouraging suicide — are the first enforceable rules under the legislation, which could also notably be used to weaken global data encryption.

I’m delighted by the videos appearing in my social feeds of crowdfund backers who have received their adorable TinyMaker resin printer. The print speed and quality look resoundingly “meh,” but who cares about practicality — it’s palm-sized! It comes packaged in a tiny crate! And you can store it in a lunchbox with an even smaller wash and cure station!

The stretching video teaser posted to the company’s Weibo account mentions its Pura smartphone branding and “1610” — likely a reference to aspect ratios. Whatever it’s announcing on March 20th isn’t guaranteed to be a phone, but Huawei has notably patented several rolling phone screen concepts over the last few years.

France has unveiled the fifth generation of its TGV Inoui high-speed intercity trains. The gorgeous retro-inspired ‘Atomic Age’ design influence throughout the interior almost made me overlook that the seat power outlets are still USB-A. Something that will seem all the more dated when these trains enter service in 2026.

After acknowledging unfixable issues impacting the gaming handheld’s display, Retroid opened a six-day return window capped at just 200 returns from customers outside of China. Now, the company is “freely accepting return requests” beyond the 200 limit according to Retro Game Corps, alongside discounted or reimbursed shipping.

FTC staffers have continued to work on the investigation in recent weeks according to Bloomberg, a sign that Trump-appointed FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson is going to prioritize scrutiny of tech giants.