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Australian Youth Influencers Quit Social Media

Australia will ban social media accounts for users under 16 starting December 10, 2025, a pioneering law aimed at protecting…

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BigTech Companies

Australia Bans Under-16s from Social Media: Platform Reactions

Australia is implementing a new law requiring major social media platforms to remove and block accounts for users under 16,…

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Amazon and Google Cloud Partner to Prevent Outages

AWS and Google Cloud have partnered to create a direct, private link between their platforms, enabling businesses to quickly establish…

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Who Still Uses Facebook in 2025?

Facebook remains widely used in 2025, with 71% of American adults actively using it and over half checking it daily,…

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Meta’s 17-strike rule for sex trafficking revealed by ex-safety exec

A former Meta safety executive testified that the company allowed accounts involved in human trafficking and sexual solicitation to accumulate…

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Major Outage: Cloudflare Disrupts X, ChatGPT, and Downdetector

A widespread outage at Cloudflare caused significant disruptions to numerous popular internet platforms, including X, ChatGPT, and Downdetector, with services…

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Meta Wins Monopoly Case: Judge Rules Social Networking Era Over

A federal judge dismissed monopoly claims against Meta, ruling that the FTC failed to prove the company holds a dominant…

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Snapchat Launches ‘Topic Chats’ for Public Conversations

Snapchat is launching Topic Chats, a new feature enabling public discussions on global events and niche interests, shifting the platform…

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Snapchat Revives Classic 2D Bitmojis for Subscribers

Snapchat is reintroducing 2D Bitmoji avatars as an exclusive feature for its Snapchat Plus paying subscribers, offering a new "Comic…

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Apple Slashes Fees for Mini App Developers

Apple has introduced a new program that reduces its commission on in-app purchases for mini app developers from 30% to…

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Discord’s Family Center Adds Parental Purchase Monitoring

Discord has expanded its Family Center with new tools that allow parents to monitor teen purchases, track interaction patterns, and…

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AI & Tech

Perplexity Invests $400M in Snapchat to Boost AI Search

A $400 million partnership will embed Perplexity's AI search engine into Snapchat by early 2026, providing its 943 million monthly…

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Snap Opens New Doha Office to Boost MENA Presence

Snap Inc. has opened a new regional headquarters in Msheireb Downtown Doha, expanding its Middle East and North Africa presence…

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Instagram’s New Custom Icons Are Just for Teens

Instagram has introduced customizable app icons exclusively for teen accounts, offering six design options to personalize their home screen experience.…

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How a Single Point of Failure Caused the Massive Amazon Outage

A massive global disruption of Amazon Web Services was caused by a single point of failure in its cloud infrastructure,…

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AI & Tech

AI Is Reshaping Real Estate’s Future

AI-generated real estate videos, like those from AutoReel, can create fully furnished virtual tours from empty properties using algorithms, with…

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Artificial Intelligence

Snapchat’s First Free AI Lens Launches in the US

Snapchat has made its AI-powered "Imagine Lens" free for all U.S. users, allowing them to generate or alter images using…

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Artificial Intelligence

Retina Implants Advance as Climate Change Alters Flowers

Amazon Web Services is restoring hundreds of applications after a significant outage, highlighting widespread reliance on cloud infrastructure for essential…

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BigTech Companies

AWS Outage Exposes Widespread Risk of Provider Dependency

A major AWS outage originating from the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread internet disruptions, rendering popular services like Signal, Snapchat, and…

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Snapchat’s Massive AWS Outage: A Live Recap

A major AWS outage on October 20, 2025, caused widespread downtime for numerous online services, including Snapchat, highlighting the digital…

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