Recently, ZEE5 found itself at the centre of controversy when users on social media claimed multi-device subscription plans were altered shortly before the FIFA tournament began.
Australia will double the maximum penalty for social media companies that fail to comply with its under-16 ban to 99 million AUD, as the Albanese government moves to tighten enforcement against platforms it says are not doing enough to keep children off their services.
Google has tightened how Gemini’s free and paid tiers work. Since May 17, 2026, Gemini Apps have run with compute-based usage limits based on prompt complexity, the model chosen, and the length of the chat, refreshing every five hours up to a weekly cap. The change is the consumer-facing edge of a compute shortage that has squeezed Google’s biggest enterprise customers for months, and it is reshaping how much free AI ordinary users get.
Last week, Streamlined attended the APOS conference in Bali, Indonesia, for the first time since 2023. Back then, the streaming wars were still in full swing; the global and regional streamers were announcing huge slates of local-language productions; competition seemed healthy, and subscription numbers and ad revenue were both growing.
In a series of DMCA takedown requests, "FIFA World Cup" is asking Google to permanently remove various pirate site domain names from its search results. While FIFA certainly is protective of its intellectual property, the seemingly AI-generated notices could be the work of a rival pirate site that's trying to take out some competition during the high-profile tournament
Meta-owned Instagram is bringing its TV app to Samsung Smart TVs in the US while testing new features aimed at turning video viewing into a shared living-room experience.
The UK government is considering new rules that could require social media platforms to make content from trusted news providers easier to find in users’ feeds and search results, as part of a wider effort to tackle online misinformation, according to a Reuters report.
The tech giant will also fund an AI research lab at A24 to the tune of $75 million in the push to make tools available to filmmakers
Kerala Sports Minister O J Janeesh yesterday said football fans, clubs and community organisations would be able to organise non-commercial public screenings of the FIFA World Cup 2026 free of cost following discussions between the State government and the rights holders (Zee Entertainment).
For years, WIPO has tried to starve pirate sites of advertising money. Now it wants to cut off their payments too. A new system called "WIPO Alert Pay" lets rightsholders flag pirate and counterfeit sites to payment providers such as PayPal and Mastercard, who can then act under their own rules. In an initial pilot, 71% of flagged sites were removed.