Australia's social media ban won't stop cyberbullying
The Australian Federal government's Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, commonly referred to as the "social media ban," is now in effect.
Dec 10, 2025
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What's my age again? The tech behind Australia's social media ban
Tech giants will apply multiple layers of security to weed out young users under Australia's world-first ban on social media for under-16s.
Dec 9, 2025
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Meta partners with news outlets to expand AI content
Meta announced Friday it will integrate content from major news organizations into its artificial intelligence assistant to provide Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users with real-time information.
Dec 5, 2025
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Down-ranking polarizing content lowers emotional temperature on social media: New research
Reducing the visibility of polarizing content in social media feeds can measurably lower partisan animosity. To come up with this finding, my colleagues and I developed a method that let us alter the ranking of people's feeds, ...
Dec 4, 2025
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Selfie-based age checks boom as govts push for online controls
As governments crack down on online platforms from social networks to porn sites, business is booming for one sector offering AI age checks based on selfies.
Nov 29, 2025
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EU could hit X with fine before 2025 ends
The European Union could fine Elon Musk's X platform for breaking its digital rules by the end of 2025—two years into a probe that has tested the bloc's resolve to police the online space.
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Based in US or Nigeria? Musk's X erupts over location feature
Elon Musk's X erupted in uproar after the rollout of a feature revealing an account's location, exposing what users describe as global troll farms and influence operations on the platform—including in support of Donald Trump.
Nov 25, 2025
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The avatar in a wheelchair: A call for more diversity in the Metaverse
A study by the University of Stuttgart, the California State University at Fullerton, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found that there are benefits to representing one's real-life disability through ...
Nov 25, 2025
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Tim Berners-Lee wants everyone to own their own data. His plan needs state and consumer support to work
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has released an important new book about the problems we face online and how to solve them. It is called "This is for Everyone," meaning that the internet should be for ...
Nov 25, 2025
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Don't expect AI to disrupt Google's monopoly on search
In a recent episode of the podcast "Acquired," venture capitalists and hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal argued that the horrible roll-out of Google's Bard AI chatbot in February 2023—which led the company's stock to ...
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