2+ week, 3+ day ago (170+ words) Apple has confirmed that it has removed two of China's most popular gay dating apps - Blued and Finka - from its app store in the country following an order from authorities. We speak to our reporter and hear from members of China's LGBT community. Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. We speak to one of the BBC Verify journalists. US Democrats have released emails from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, one of which says Donald Trump spent hours at his house with someone the Democrats say was one of the late financier's victims. We get more details from our correspondent. After Christy, a biopic starring Sydney Sweeney became one of the biggest box office flops,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (524+ words) Popular forum site Reddit has been added to Australia's world-first social media ban for children under 16 that starts next month. Live-streaming platform Kick will also be included, bringing the number of sites targeted in the ban to nine. They include Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Threads. From 10 December, tech companies can be fined up to A$50m ($32.5m; "25.7m) if they do not take "reasonable steps" to deactivate existing accounts for under-16s and prohibit new ones. Each banned platform was chosen as their "sole or a significant purpose is to enable online social interaction," the government said, and more sites may be added given the "fast-changing" nature of technology. "Delaying children's access to social media accounts gives them valuable time to learn and grow, free of the powerful, unseen forces of harmful and deceptive design features such as opaque algorithms and…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago (108+ words) We're continuing our tour of the UK, spreading the word about BBC Scam Week. Today, consumer champ Matt Allwright is down in Dunstable with BBC Three Counties Radio to help with people there fight ... BBC Scam Safe Roadshow heads to Dunstable This content is not available in your location. There was an error We're continuing our tour of the UK, spreading the word about BBC Scam Week. Today, consumer champ Matt Allwright is down in Dunstable with BBC Three Counties Radio to help with people there fight back against fraudsters. To watch this with subtitles, go to BBC iPlayer and search for Morning Live from 25/11/2025....

1+ week, 5+ day ago (63+ words) People seeking the latest test score made nearly half a million calls to the special telephone information service in cities, including Leeds. First broadcast on 13 July 1956. 1956: Test match scores on the telephone People seeking the latest test score made nearly half a million calls to the special telephone information service in cities, including Leeds. First broadcast on 13 July 1956....

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (704+ words) After using dating apps with little success for eight years, a woman met the love of her life just two weeks after deciding to ditch them. Lowri Rose, 26, from Cardiff, said she had been using the apps on and off since she was 18 but she grew increasingly unhappy with how they made her feel. Having initially sought "validation" through them, she said she found app users to be too focused on her appearance and she had received unsolicited "vulgar" messages from people on one app. Lowri said she quit the apps when she was 24 and met her fiance at a dinner hosted by mutual friends. Lowri, a social media manager, said they both felt a strong connection after meeting each other that day in April last year. "I just knew that we were going to get married and he just…...

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1+ week, 3+ day ago (559+ words) Twitch, a streaming platform popular with gamers, has been added to Australia's teen social media ban that starts next month. It joins other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat that must ensure under-16s cannot open accounts and that existing ones are closed from 10 December. Australia's internet regulator overseeing the ban said Twitch - owned by Amazon -had been included as its main purpose was "online social interaction" where users were encouraged to chat to each other about posted content. A Twitch spokesperson said Australians under 16 will not be able to open a Twitch account from 10 December and that from 9 January existing under-16s accounts will be deactivated. On her reasons why Twitch had been included, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said it was "a platform most commonly used for livestreaming or posting content that enables users, including Australian children, to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (1036+ words) Kobi Crolla is not yet 18 months old but he has spent almost all his life in hospital as medics treat him for severe brain damage. In that time he has suffered countless seizures and endured 17 operations, while his parents have had to give up their jobs to care for him full-time. Now his mother Kirsty Grandison, 35, is charting their experience on TikTok in a bid to help other parents of sick children in hospital. "We used to feel like we were the only parent's going through this," she said "There was no-one online making videos where we could go for advice, so I started making videos to show life in hospital in a bid to help other people." Her TikTok page has 34,000 followers and receives up to 40 private messages a day. Kobi was born 10 weeks prematurely at the Royal Hospital…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (637+ words) Younger Australian teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Threads are being told their accounts will be shut down ahead of the country's social media ban for under-sixteens. Meta, which owns the three brands, said it had begun notifying users it believes to be between 13 and 15 years old by text, email and in-app messages that their accounts would start being deactivated from 4 December. The ban in Australia comes into force on 10 December. It affects a number of platforms which also include TikTok, YouTube, X and Reddit. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the "world-leading" ban was aimed at "letting kids be kids". Meta and other firms oppose the measure but said they would comply. Australia's internet regulator has estimated there are 150,000 Facebook users and 350,000 teens on Instagram in the 13-15 age bracket. From 4 December, children aged below 16 will not be able to create accounts…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (1158+ words) For decades data centres - large warehouses full of powerful computers used to run digital services - have been quietly supporting our everyday lives, but why are they important and could more be built in the East of England? There are currently estimated to be about 500 data centres across the UK and the government says they are as critical for the country as emergency services and the NHS. Google built a $1bn (735m) data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, in September and a 1.3bn facility has been approved for development in Basildon, Essex. Data centres are the physical facilities that store, process and run large amounts of data and software which power the internet. Some organisations operate their own centres, such as the University of Cambridge, to enable its research, and Lloyds Bank, which uses its centre in Peterborough to support ATMs and online banking....