'A cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen' — The VPN industry reacts to the UK's teen social media ban

VPN companies and privacy advocates are concerned about the increasing role of age verification online [...]

The World Cup is turning lesser-known players into social media stars

Vozinha, Tim Payne, Kai Trewin, and other lesser-known World Cup players are becoming viral stars through creators and fans on social media. [...]

Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill

Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the blocâ [...]

House committee strikes bipartisan deal to regulate social media for kids

The KIDS Act combines portions of more than a dozen existing bills and still needs Senate approval and a presidential signature [...]

Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack

When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. Sales [...]

Google is rationing Gemini access to Meta because it cannot provide enough compute

Google has placed limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models because it cannot provide as much computing capacity as the social media company wanted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The re [...]

Australia doubles the maximum penalty for its social media ban

The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million. [...]

Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm its regulator over the under-16 ban

Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to ma [...]

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