Major technology companies criticized Australia’s new law banning social media access for users under 16, which passed parliament on Thursday with bipartisan support. The legislation threatens fines up to $32 million for platforms failing to block minors. TikTok warned the ban could drive young users to riskier online spaces, while Read more…
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun consumed Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” artwork — a banana taped to a wall — during an event in Hong Kong on Friday, declaring “the real value is the concept itself.” Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, purchased the piece for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s last week, significantly Read more…
Major academic publishers including Elsevier and Springer Nature are grappling with a sophisticated new journal hijacking scam that precisely mimics their websites to deceive researchers. The fraudulent operation, reported by Retraction Watch, has cloned at least 13 legitimate journals through fake domains, according to Crossref data. The scam, the publication Read more…
Meta plans to build a $10 billion private, “mother of all” undersea fiber-optic cable network spanning over 40,000 kilometers around the world. The project, dubbed “W” for its shape, would run from the U.S. east coast to the west coast via India, South Africa and Australia, avoiding regions prone to Read more…
A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train its ChatGPT software. It’s the first time all of a country’s Read more…
A Chinese commercial vessel that has been surrounded by European warships in international waters for a week is central to an investigation of suspected sabotage that threatens to test the limits of maritime law — and heighten tensions between Beijing and European capitals. Investigators suspect that the crew of the Read more…
Performance improvement plans, a controversial corporate tool for managing underperforming employees, are becoming increasingly prevalent in U.S. workplaces. HR Acuity data shows workers subject to performance actions rose from 33.4 per 1,000 in 2020 to 43.6 per 1,000 in 2023. While companies maintain PIPs offer a path to improvement, WSJ Read more…