Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri testified on January 5 at a Senate hearing about how the platform impacts the mental health and safety of teens and children. Meta on Tuesday…
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Connecting rural African communities one bus at a time
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In urban African communities, communication infrastructure has made it possible for people to share information quickly and easily. However, the same cannot be said for rural…
Google agrees to settle $5 bn lawsuit over ‘incognito’ mode
A lawsuit against Google claims the company’s practices infringed on users’ privacy by ‘intentionally’ deceiving them. Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion…
US-Canada military center ‘tracks’ Santa for 68th year
The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955. The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long Christmas tradition of tracking Santa’s…
Fraud is a problem so big we need to start teaching children how to spot it in schools
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Have you or someone you know been a victim of fraud? If so, that’s not unusual. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a rise…
What is Storm-1152, alleged top creator of fake Microsoft accounts?
Microsoft has seized the websites of Storm-1152, a Vietnam-based group it says is responsible for creating hundreds of millions of fake accounts. Microsoft has seized the websites of a Vietnam-based…
Are we witnessing the death of the password?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Once considered a near iron-clad weapon of defense against cyber criminals, the password has begun to fall from grace. Effective passwords often require human efforts that…
Australia targets tech giants with ‘harmful content’ standards
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australia’s internet watchdog wants to force technology giants to crack down on deepfake child abuse material and “pro-terror content” under new, industry-wide protocols being developed in…
Tech giants pool efforts to fight online child sex abuse
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Big tech companies, including Facebook-owner Meta and Google, said Tuesday they would team up in a new program to fight online child sexual abuse or exploitation.…
