My Feed, My Way: Australia gives its tech users an algorithm off-switch
Social media platforms will have to give users a clear choice to go for a feed showing posts from friends, creators and accounts they follow...
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META and youth addiction: A problematic affair
The social media conglomerate has been facing legal heat on a global scale, in terms of improperly collecting and using children's personal data...
Alphabet eyes maiden Australian-dollar bond amid SpaceX, Berkshire gains
Alphabet's heightened market movements come amid its global peers increasingly moving towards capital markets to fund their massive AI spending...
Why 60% of social media child safety features fail to deliver
Independent research finds Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube promising protections for young users that do not function, cannot be found, or do not exist at all...
Australia enforces world’s first under-16 social media ban
Young Australians, who have grown up using social media, faced the prospect of losing access to their favourite apps with sadness, humour and disbelief...
New infostealers target global businesses
The infostealers, RedLine and META, targeted millions of victims worldwide, making it one of the largest malware platforms globally...
US healthcare under siege?
In 2023, The United States National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimated that tens of billions of dollars per year were lost to healthcare fraud...
Ad Blockers vs. YouTube: The Showdown
Ad blocking executives claim that user reports indicate YouTube's assault on ad blockers has occurred concurrently with experiments to display more ads...
Fediverse & the Threads debate
As per the latest report, Threads is all set to receive Twitter-like direct message feature...
IF Insights: Is Google killing the ‘search engine’ competition?
Google uses web crawlers, software that looks for and indexes publicly available web pages...