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US judge orders Meta to pay $567 million into a child mental health fund and strengthen protections for children's accounts, citing youth mental health crisis.
Telegram was fined 3.8 million rubles for failing to remove content banned in Russia, according to Interfax.
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced Tuesday the completed construction of the Siberian Circular Photon Source (SKIF), the country's first fourth-generation synchrotron radiation source, located in Koltsovo near Novosibirsk and operating at 3 gigaelectronvolts; Putin attended the opening ceremony and called the project a boost to Russia's technological sovereignty.
A Chinese woman who had been nearly blind for almost 20 years became the first person in China to receive a high-resolution retina-based visual brain-computer interface implant in a clinical trial at Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital in May 2026. More than two months later, she is making steady rehabilitation progress, learning to recognize letters, practice writing, and move around indoors with increasing confidence.