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Meta removes 500,000 youth accounts under Australia’s new social media ban
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (450+ words) Jan. 12 (UPI) " Meta has removed more than half a million social media accounts belonging to Australians under the age of 16, the company said, as it announced its efforts to comply with the Oceanian nation's new social media age ban. The…...
Iranian Regime Shuts Down the Internet as Protests Continue and Death Toll Mounts
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (762+ words) Worldwide network monitors said Iran was plunged into a nationwide Internet blackout on Thursday, an ominous sign that the panicked regime is preparing to use greater violence to suppress protests that have entered their second week. According to the NetBlocks…...
Study: YouTube Shovels AI Slop Aimed at Children into Users’ Feeds
1+ week, 4+ day ago (224+ words) Low-quality AI-generated content is saturating YouTube, generating an estimated $117 million in revenue annually, according to new research. The study found that more than 20 percent of the videos shown to new users on the platform fall into the category of low…...
Data centers boom under shroud of uncertainty, lax reporting standards
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (1308+ words) Dec. 29 (UPI) " The proliferation of data centers in the United States continued to accelerate in 2025 but experts, developers and utility companies are challenged with projecting the energy needs of the future. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is calling for a moratorium…...
Cyberattack Takes Down French Post Office Days Before Christmas
3+ week, 13+ hour ago (270+ words) The postal service, called La Poste, said in a statement that a distributed denial of service incident, or DDoS, "rendered its online services inaccessible." It said the incident had no impact on customer data, but disrupted package and mail delivery....
They Want Your Children: Reddit Files Legal Challenge Against Australia's Teenager Social Media Ban
4+ week, 2+ day ago (204+ words) Reddit has launched a legal battle against Australia's world-leading ban on social media for users under the age of 16, filing a case in the high court just two days after the country implemented age restrictions on its platform. Reddit's challenge…...
Australia's Social Media Shutdown for Under-16's Takes Effect
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (371+ words) Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s has begun. The Federal government-imposed'shutdown on the globe's most popular social media platforms and websites, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Kick, Twitch, and Reddit, means millions of children and teenagers lose access to their…...
Taiwan Bans Communist China's ‘Little Red Book’ App for Online Shopping Fraud
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (391+ words) The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Taiwan announced Thursday that access to the Chinese Communist app RedNote will be blocked for at least a year due to a high volume of complaints about online shopping scams. CIB said it has…...
The Usual Suspects: Cloudflare Outage Briefly Breaks the Internet *Again*
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (506+ words) Cloudflare experienced a brief outage on Friday that impacted numerous global websites, causing them to go offline temporarily. The outage comes less than three weeks after Cloudflare brought a significant portion of the internet to its knees with a long…...
Meta Starts Kicking Australian Children Off Instagram and Facebook
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (528+ words) Mark Zuckerberg's Meta on Thursday began deactivating Instagram and Facebook accounts of Australian users under the age of 16 ahead of next week's social media ban. Australia passed a new law in 2024 that forces major social media platforms to block anyone…...