Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for systemic violations
www.crikey.com.au/20... Cameron Wilson / @cameronwilson.bsky.social : The Communication Department's analysis of the under 16yo social media ban cites two sources: — a study which has findings that i...
Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 beta 1 in Australia that will let children report nudity material sent to them to Apple
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Australia waters down draft rules to force tech companies to detect child abuse and terror content on E2EE messaging services, after pushback from Apple, others
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Epic's antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months
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Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”
but they may eventually return in a new form Ashwin / Ghacks : Google confirms that cache links have been removed from search results Mastodon: Misty / @misty@digipres.club : Google's getting rid of t...
Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and other third-party Twitter apps are broken; Twitter has given no explanation and developers say they haven't heard back
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Tweetbot and other Twitter apps still broken as Elon Musk stays silent Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Twitter a...
Medibank's hackers post what appears to be the remaining data of 9.7M customers on the dark web, claiming “case closed”, as Medibank continues its investigation
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Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members
your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kate Kozuch / Tom's Gui...
Ahead of its congressional testimony, Tile shares concerns of unfair competition regarding AirTag, which is tightly integrated with Apple's Find My network
Spotlight on Apple's Tile killer and Opt-in tracking in advance … Mike Peterson / AppleInsider : Tile bemoans Apple AirTags launch, raises antitrust concerns Tom Phillips / NFCW : Apple rolls out AirT...
Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill
but what was lost along the way? Micky : Facebook versus Australia: the government hands Facebook a free pass Max Willens / Digiday : Cheat sheet: Facebook brings news back to platform in Australia - ...