The Australian government has defended the ban after a report concluded most teenagers had found ways to get around it. Published On 1 Aug 20261 Aug 2026 More than eight in 10 Australian teenagers are still using social media, skirting the government’s three-month-old landmark ban on the platforms for under-16s because tech firms have failed...Read More
Australia has defended its world-first ban on social media for under-16s after a study found there had been little drop in use months after the ban took effect. Ministers backed the landmark policy on Saturday, just a day after the nation’s internet regulator found that more than eight in ten Australian teenagers were still using...Read More
For months, cybersecurity leaders warned that artificial intelligence would reshape the threat landscape, compressing weeks- and dayslong cyberattacks into a matter of minutes. Until last week, those threats still felt like a distant risk. The OpenAI agent hack on Hugging Face illustrates that this era has not only arrived but also created a new challenge:...Read More
Whether driven by a desire for transparency or to keep OpenAI from hogging the spotlight when it comes to advertising advanced AI models, Anthropic revealed that Claude also hacked into three production systems belonging to unsuspecting targets during cybersecurity capabilities testing. Two of the affected companies didn’t know they had been hacked, while a third...Read More
The Claire Chapin Epps Family YMCA site in Myrtle Beach. Provided A Facebook post has received hundreds of comments and shares on social media after a user accused two YMCA summer camp leaders of verbally harassing children in the camp at a Myrtle Beach restaurant. The user took to Facebook on Wednesday to warn parents...Read More
Gen Z isn’t the teetotalling generation after all, according to new data. They just took some time to catch up to the rest of the drinking population, and their influence is reshaping the alcohol industry. As a larger proportion of gen Zers reaches legal drinking age, the gap between them and drinkers at large “appears...Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – AI has become part of our daily lives, including older adults. AARP said AI use among older adults nearly doubled between 2024 and 2025. Senators on both sides of the aisle are warning that while this technology may help improve lives, scammers are also using it to exploit seniors. In a Senate Aging committee hearing, Deborah Del Mastro, a California mom, details what happened after she answered a phone call from...Read More
ATLANTA — As students prepare to return to class, the City of Atlanta’s Department of Transportation is taking a closer look at what happens before they reach the school doors — focusing on the streets, sidewalks and crossings students use every day. Channel 2’s Brittany Kleinpeter got an exclusive first look at a new Safe...Read More
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Chicago Public Schools is poised to cut in half the money and staff the district provided to some high schools after they removed police officers stationed at their campuses. High schools were given money roughly equivalent...Read More
