Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by US school districts against Meta and other social media platforms. In a
Australia's internet watchdog on Friday said it would include Amazon-owned live streaming service Twitch in its upcoming teen social media ban, but will not add image-sharing platform Pinterest to the list. From Dec 10, Australia will become the world's first country to bar people aged 16 years an
Two teenagers pleaded not guilty on Friday to hacking charges over a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport body, with one of them also denying charges related to two health systems in the United States. Transport for London (TfL), which operates the British capital’s tube and b
Conservationists in Cambodia have for the first time released two captive-bred Greater Adjutant Stork chicks into the wild as part of an ongoing programme to revive a species under threat from poaching and habitat loss. The nine-month-old storks - a male and a female - were fitted with GPS tracker
Spain’s parliament will investigate Meta for possible privacy violations of its Facebook and Instagram users, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday. “In Spain, the law is above any algorithm or any large technology platform. And anyone who violates our rights will pay
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms defeated a US attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled the company does not hold a social media monopoly. The ruling gives Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in Pre
Kissing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of great apes around 20 million years ago, according to a study published on Wednesday. Researchers from Oxford University and the Florida Institute of Technology wanted to examine when kissing began, given that fr
Major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, were inaccessible for thousands of users globally on Tuesday as web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare was hit by an outage, disrupting internet services. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate
OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymised ChatGPT chat logs amid a copyright infringement lawsuit by the New York Times and other news outlets, saying it would expose users' private conversations. The artificial in
In 2021, Danish video game live-streamer Marie Watson received an image of herself from an unknown Instagram account. She instantly recognised the holiday snap from her Instagram account, but something was different: Her clothing had been digitally removed to make her appear naked. It was a deepfa
