2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (574+ words) Pavel Durov, a French-Emirati citizen and CEO of Telegram, criticized the Spanish government's planned crackdown on social media, which includes introducing mandatory age checks for users and setting a minimum age of 16 for access to social media, as seen in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (482+ words) 17.5 million Instagram users have reportedly had their usernames, house and email addresses, phone number as well as other personal information put up for sale on underground websites, according to Malwarebytes." Users have reported receiving multiple password reset request emails following…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (509+ words) Reddit, one of the largest social media platforms, has made its case amid the social media ban on teens currently being enforced in Australia. Reddit, one of the largest social media platforms, has made its case amid the social media…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (569+ words) Australia's biggest banks are unexpectedly being drawn into efforts to enforce a world-first ban on under-16s using social media, due to take effect in December this year. The key tool under trial is ConnectID, an identity system owned by the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (452+ words) Australia's government has released new details on how its upcoming law banning children under 16 from opening social media accounts will be enforced." The guidelines expand on earlier advice from the eSafety Commission, which gave technology companies a way to check…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (608+ words) A recent study showed how easily modern chatbots can be used to write convincing scam emails targeted towards older people and how often those emails get clicked. Researchers used several major AI chatbots in the study, including Grok, OpenAI's ChatGPT,…...