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I first picked up The Iliad because the cloth-bound red cover, stamped with gold flames, was simply gorgeous. So much for not judging a book by its cover. The Penguin Classics edition sat on my shelf for months before I finally opened it. For years, the text had felt inaccessible,…

TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its European hub in Dublin, according to an email to staff seen by Bloomberg. For the people affected, that number is not abstract. The proposed redundancies would fall on roughly a tenth of the company’s local workforce of around 3,000, and they follow…

Shopee logo is seen in this illustration taken, Feb 11, 2025. PUBLISHED ON July 01, 2026 9:32 AM JAKARTA — Indonesia's tax office said on Wednesday it has asked e-commerce marketplaces Tokopedia, Shopee, Lazada and Blibli to collect income taxes from sellers based on sales made on their platforms, with…

Brands are increasingly looking to replicate their TikTok Shop success when entering overseas markets. Modern Retail spoke with three brands — gaming consoles business Nex Playground, K-beauty company MBX and luxury resale platform Fashionphile — about how they are using TikTok Shop to expand internationally, and why they believe the…

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An article from The new feature offers a central location for third-party artificial intelligence ad tools, and is directly integrated with the platform’s Model Context Protocol server. This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. TikTok launched a new Agentic Hub for artificial intelligence-powered tools ,…

From July 1, 2026, banks and other financial institutions across Pakistan will begin deducting a 5% withholding tax on income earned by digital content creators, freelancers, and social media influencers through online platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and similar digital services. The new tax measure has been introduced…

Habeeb Peller Hamzat, the Nigerian TikTok personality, and Amadou ‘Jarvis’ Elizabeth, his partner, have revealed the cost of their wedding asoebi fabric. During a live-streamed session with fellow TikToker 5 Naira, the couple was heard urging him to purchase the attire. They detailed tiered pricing based on yardage: N350,000 for…

The Rise of the AI Censors Last week, Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism released its annual digital news report, which found that “for the first time, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news…

A bizarre new trend has swept across social media in recent months, clogging TikTok and Instagram with time-lapse videos depicting the construction of secret underground bunkers. These clips are generated by artificial intelligence and often feature physically impossible bunker designs. In some cases, these imaginary spaces are carved out of…