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Social Media Ban for Under‑16s: Implementation Approaches
The implementation of Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act 2024 is approaching. This act bans social media use for children under 16 across Australia and holds platforms accountable with fines...
Consumer litigation against Qualcomm
There is a group of millions of people in the United Kingdom who bought an Apple or Samsung smartphone between 2015 and 2024 who may get a payout if the litigation brought by consumer campaign group...
Nasa Pandora Mission
The rocket lifted, the engines fired and the noise came like thunder drawn sharp across a steel plate. It rose straight and clean into a pale blue sky and the men who built it watched with hands in...
Framework Desktop
In August, Framework began shipping. It gave people a computer they could open, fix, and understand. The kind of machine you could keep, not toss. Small, strong, honest. Like a tool made to work,...
Meta Pushes Back Against Australia’s AI Privacy Reforms
Meta, the group behind facebook, has formally objected to upcoming Australian privacy regulations that would restrict the use of personal data for AI training. The company argues that such measures...
Successful Switch 2 Launch leaves Nintendo Soaring
Nintendo's Switch 2 has been an unexpected hit. Launching with a fairly limited selection of opening games including many which had already been released on other platforms, the launch was saved by...
4chan.org has been hacked with ip leaks
4chan.org is currently down in a number of places, and reports have emerged online that indicate there has been a massive hack. On the reddit 4chan sub, there have been reports that the hacker...
Proof of Satoshi Identity published on X by Steganography researcher
Twitter user and steganography researcher Fauvel (@roman_de_fauvel) has just posted a compelling technical proof that Craig Stephen Wright was the author of the Bitcoin Whitepaper. In his analysis...
Grok 3 release blitzes competition
Elon Musk has responded to the Chatgpt work at openai by improving the Grok language model that is included with x.com and making it free for a month or so until his "servers get melted". The model...