Google Signals stopped controlling Ads cookies on June 15, 2026, leaving Consent Mode ad_storage as the only gate on sites that still fire it wrong.
Metalenz showed payment-grade Polar ID through a lit OLED, but Android flagships still unlock and pay with under-display fingerprints.
The Army’s May hackathon was the public sprint. An August order now bans closed weapon interfaces so Palantir and Anduril can feed an AI-ready network.
Public Bank will spend about RM500 million a year on digital work and keep 314 branches, betting its 34.9% cost line needs no Maybank-scale rebuild.