Siyatha News 6 AM | 26-08-2023

World News

• Barclays customers unable to buy essentials after major IT outage
  Online banking, the bank's app and payments in and out of accounts are all affected.
• Press X to sniff: Can smelling a game make it more immersive?
  Modern video games look more realistic than they ever have - but there's one sense developers have yet to exploit.
• How an AI-written book shows why the tech 'terrifies' creatives
  The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman is given an AI-made book that claims it was written by her.
• Mexico asks Google Maps not to rename Gulf of Mexico
  US President Donald Trump has ordered that the body of water be renamed the Gulf of America.
• Meta to pay $25m to settle Trump lawsuit over ban
  The president sued the firm in 2021 over the suspension of his accounts after the 6 January Capitol riots.