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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
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    Why Big Tech makes such a poor babysitter Premium content

    A report claims Roblox is failing to protect young users from toxic content — but investors have shrugged it off

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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    X Corp
    X returns to Brazil after Elon Musk complies with court orders

    Ban lifted as billionaire backs down on his refusal to remove extremist content from platform

    The social media platform X  app on a smartphone in Rio de Janeiro
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    Meta debuts AI filmmaker in challenge to OpenAI’s Sora

    Instagram and Facebook owner says new tools trump rivals’ but will not be widely available until next year at the earliest

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  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    Can Zuckerberg rise above the US political fray?

    Meta chief seeks neutral stance ahead of US election but critics argue he is placating critics such as Trump

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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
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    Financial and tech groups at odds about how to tackle and pay for the problem

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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
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    Is nuclear energy the zero-carbon answer to powering AI?

    After decades of stagnation, the world’s biggest tech groups and banks are considering an alternative energy option

    Montage image showing logos of Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon over the Three Mile Island nuclear plant
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
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    Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence

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  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
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    Alice Newton-Rex: ‘WhatsApp makes people feel confident to be themselves’

    The messaging platform’s director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app’s 2bn users

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
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    How a kitchen porter’s zen was ruined by the group chat

    Some people choose jobs they can leave at the door. WhatsApp won’t let them

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
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    Meta unveils augmented reality glasses prototype ‘Orion’

    Mark Zuckerberg says lightweight AI-enabled device is the ‘most advanced’ in the world

    Mark Zuckerberg wears the Orion AR glasses during the Meta event on Wednesday
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

    The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

    Illustration of blue butterflies, the Bluesky logo, fluttering inside a bell jar
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
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    Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

    Billionaire’s satellite service is considered vital in remote areas but is coming under new scrutiny in Latin American country

    Montage of Elon Musk, Brazil flag, Starlink logo
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    X Corp
    Brazil imposes fine on Musk’s X after service returns

    Platform says temporary restoration was ‘inadvertent’ but will keep fighting court order that banned it in the country

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  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Meta Platforms
    Meta faces hefty EU antitrust fine over classified ads practices

    Brussels claims Facebook is breaking the law and undermining rivals with its free Marketplace services

    A montage showing the Meta logo against the backdrop of the EU’s circular 12 stars symbol
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
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    Instagram to make teenagers’ profiles private by default

    Social media companies have come under fire over platforms’ impact on young people

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
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    TikTok warns of ‘staggering’ consequences from US divest-or-ban law

    App’s lawyer urges a federal appeals court to throw out rule requiring its Chinese owner to divest it or be shut down

    A TikTok advocate wears a button showing support for the app outside of the courthouse in Washington where the appeal is being hear
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?

    Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

    Illustration of an older woman drinking coffee while working at a laptop. A pair of spectacles, some books and a picture of a child are on her desk
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Musk blasts Australia as ‘fascists’ over social media law

    Billionaire X owner has previously clashed with privacy regulator over allegations of censorship

    Elon Musk
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Work Watch
    Should companies let staff do what they want?

    Giving workers autonomy could lead to more engaged employees and better results

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  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Australia
    Australia plans minimum age limit for social media use

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promises crackdown amid concerns about excessive screen use by young people

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  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk faces possible summons before UK parliament over role of X

    Social media tycoon in sights of MPs as they press for roles chairing key Commons committees

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  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    X Corp
    Brazilians rally to protest supreme court judge’s decision to ban X

    Demonstrators say ruling by Alexandre de Moraes is unconstitutional assault on free speech

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Person in the News
    Alexandre de Moraes, the steely Brazilian judge facing down Musk

    Already known for his battles with Bolsonaro, his ban on X has pitched him into the centre of a new fight

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Alexandre de Moraes.
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    X Corp
    X global affairs head Nick Pickles leaves social media company

    Chief executive Linda Yaccarino’s right-hand man helped fight many of the group’s political battles

    Nick Pickles speaks at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington in June 2019
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Pavel Durov
    Telegram’s Durov criticises French authorities’ ‘misguided approach’ over his arrest

    Messaging app’s CEO speaks out after being hit with preliminary charges related to the platform

    Pavel Durov on stage speaking on a wireless microphone during a conference.
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