The movement to create AI-free certification systems follows generative AI tools being used to replace human work and creativity in range of industries including fashion, advertising, publishing, customer services and music. ... A certification of 'human origin' is needed but self certification is not good enough so we have a full verification process to make sure that its truly human originated material ....

What Google is doing
In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their software.

Registration requires:

💰 Paying a fee to Google
📝 Agreeing to Google's Terms and Conditions
🪪 Surrendering your government-issued identification
🫆 Providing evidence of your private signing key
🧾 Listing all current and all future application identifiers

If a developer does not comply, their apps get silently blocked on every Android device worldwide.

We’ll rewind to the early 2000s—when tech was low-tech, playful and non-extractive. Think: loading bars, Tamagotchis and RollerCoaster Tycoon in a cereal box. This talk explores calm, #nervous-system-friendly #design: #attention #regulation, slowness as a feature, autonomy-first mechanics, real-world interaction and gentle feedback loops. A call for designers and builders to make tech feel human again.

Across the world, real-time payments are solving real-world challenges. Real-time payments are faster, cheaper, and more accessible and convenient —they reduce costs and improve liquidity for businesses and help banks achieve greater efÏciency.

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Real-time payments are now a real-world reality.
This year’s report confirms that real-time payments are now an integral part of the global payments mix, and as more markets go mainstream, they should now be acknowledged as a cornerstone for all strategies targeting financial inclusion and economic gain.
We hope this report provides the continued impetus needed for real-time modernization across the world, which will give financial institutions, corporations, merchants and consumers access to faster, cheaper and all-around better payments.