Federal government issues recall notice for Volvo EX30 and urges owners to keep charge below 70% Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Almost 3,000 electric vehicle drivers will be asked to keep their car less than fully charged while the manufacturer develops a solution to a serious fire risk. The federal transport depa...
Federal government issues recall notice for Volvo EX30 and urges owners to keep charge below 70% Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Almost 3,000 electric vehicle drivers will be asked to keep their car less than fully charged while the manufacturer develops a solution to a serious fire risk. The federal transport department has issued a recall notice for Volvo EX30 electric vehicles sold in Australia during 2024 in a move that will affect 2,815 motorists. Continue reading...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy thriller and the Netflix breakout drama took home major awards with Timothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley also winning Golden Globes 2026: the full list of winners One Battle After Another and Adolescence have led this year’s Golden Globes with four wins apiece. Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture epic took home best comedy or musical film. It also earned him best di...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy thriller and the Netflix breakout drama took home major awards with Timothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley also winning Golden Globes 2026: the full list of winners One Battle After Another and Adolescence have led this year’s Golden Globes with four wins apiece. Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture epic took home best comedy or musical film. It also earned him best director and screenplay, marking his first-ever Golden Globe wins. Continue reading...
Indonesia plans to sell US-dollar bonds, the first such offering by an Asian sovereign this year, giving further impetus to a record start to global debt issuance by borrowers in 2026. Southeast Asia’s largest economy started marketing fixed-rate bonds with maturity of a little over five years, 10- and 30 years, according to people familiar with the matter that asked not to be identified talking a...
Indonesia plans to sell US-dollar bonds, the first such offering by an Asian sovereign this year, giving further impetus to a record start to global debt issuance by borrowers in 2026. Southeast Asia’s largest economy started marketing fixed-rate bonds with maturity of a little over five years, 10- and 30 years, according to people familiar with the matter that asked not to be identified talking about confidential information. The sale comes as the administration of President Prabowo Subianto looks to fund a budget deficit that risks exceeding the legal cap of 3% of gross domestic product in 2026. Indonesia has set its budget deficit target at 2.68% of GDP this year, with total net bond issuance — including local- and foreign-currency debt — pegged at 799.5 trillion rupiah ($47.4 billion) in 2026. The gap hit the highest level in at least two decades in 2025. Citigroup Inc raised its 2026 budget deficit forecast to 3.5% of GDP from 2.7%, citing expectations of faster spending on the free-meals program and larger transfers to regional governments.
Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok over the weekend due to concerns that the tool was being used to generate non-consensual, sexually explicit and obscene content. Malaysian regulators ordered temporary restrictions be placed on the chatbot from xAI on Sunday following "repeated failures by X Corp" to...
Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok over the weekend due to concerns that the tool was being used to generate non-consensual, sexually explicit and obscene content. Malaysian regulators ordered temporary restrictions be placed on the chatbot from xAI on Sunday following "repeated failures by X Corp" to address content risks associated with the AI tool. The move came just one day after Indonesia stepped in to deny access temporarily to Grok due to similar concerns and asked X officials to clarify on the matter, according to CNBC's translation of the statement . The Southeast Asian countries' actions come after it was discovered that some users of the AI tool generated non-consensual explicit images and deepfakes, including depictions of scantily clad minors. Musk's company had recently updated its Grok Imagine features, enabling easier image generation from text-based prompts on the platform, which is integrated with Musk's social media platform X, giving it a wide reach. Amid escalating concerns over Grok's content moderation policy, xAI announced it would limit image generation and editing features to paying subscribers, in an effort to patch safeguard gaps that permitted sexualized outputs. Musk, responding on X, has also asserted that users creating illegal content via Grok would face consequences equivalent to uploading such material directly to the social media platform. CNBC attempted to reach out to xAI for comment regarding the developments over the weekend. A press email for the company returned an automatic message that read "Legacy Media Lies." "Insufficient" responses However, X's public and private responses amid the controversy have failed to satisfy the concerns of regulators in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as others that have launched probes. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission said that X's "insufficient" replies have "relied primar...
Cloudflare Vs Italy: The Battle For Digital Freedom And Global Internet Sovereignty Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Italian authorities are attempting to force the internet service provider Cloudflare to delete and block certain online services. Cloudflare is resisting and has turned to the U.S. government for support. The fight for a free internet is intensifying. The struggle over control of informati...
Cloudflare Vs Italy: The Battle For Digital Freedom And Global Internet Sovereignty Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Italian authorities are attempting to force the internet service provider Cloudflare to delete and block certain online services. Cloudflare is resisting and has turned to the U.S. government for support. The fight for a free internet is intensifying. The struggle over control of information, censorship, and economic dominance in the digital space is increasingly becoming a fundamental civilizational question. That the European Union now sees not only the EU Commission but also national governments and security apparatuses siding with information diktats, against the fundamental principle of free speech, sends a dangerous signal to the world. The EU has effectively withdrawn from the circle of freedom-oriented state actors. Into this picture fits a recent report from Italy. A tweet by the founder and CEO of the internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, has caused a stir. Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any… pic.twitter.com/qZf9UKEAY5 — Matthew Prince 🌥 (@eastdakota) January 9, 2026 Prince reports that Cloudflare has been hit with a $17 million fine by a — as he calls it — clandestine cabal in Italy. The accusation: Cloudflare refused to participate in an Italian censorship mechanism at the behest of this group. A Cabal of Regulators and Media Corporations Specifically, this concerns a system controlled by the Italian media authority AGCOM (Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni) called the “Piracy Shield.” This blocking system is officially aimed at combating illegal sports and media streaming services. The main targets are the economic interests of major players such as Italy’s Serie A footba...