Troy Hunt says platforms, not parents, must enforce kids' social media bans
His weekly update argues imperfect platform enforcement can still shift norms for teens near the age cutoff.
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Syrian Electronic Army hacker sentenced to 42 months in US
Ahmad Umar Agha, known as Th3Pr0, was sentenced Thursday after more than a decade as a fugitive; accomplice Firas Dardar remains at large.
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Syrian regime hacker sentenced to 42 months in US prison
Ahmad Umar Agha, also known as Th3Pr0, was sentenced after a conspiracy that ran from August 2011 until January 2024.
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Ofcom lists four age checks for the UK social media ban
Platforms could use photo ID, bank data, facial estimation, or a digital identity service.
Syrian Electronic Army hacker sentenced to 42 months in U.S. prison
Ahmad Umar Agha, known as Th3Pr0, was sentenced for phishing-based hacks of about 47 Western targets, including a fake AP tweet.
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Social post claims Polymarket was hacked; snippet lacks details
The available Hacker News text shows only 23 points and seven comments, with no incident description.
Ofcom shortlists four age checks for UK under-16 social media ban
Photo ID, banking, digital ID and facial estimation remain; about 150,000 teens aged 16–17 lack photo ID.
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Man travels 2,000 km in Brazil to meet an AI-generated woman
He sold belongings to fund the bus trip; police have not established that a crime occurred.
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Scam ads on social platforms phish users, push malware and steal money
The FTC is only starting to consider rules that would make platforms stop impersonation-scam ads before users see them.
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Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Official X Account
Microsoft confirmed unauthorized access to its 13-million-follower X account, used to promote a fake Clippy cryptocurrency token scam.
Microsoft’s X account hacked in crypto pump-and-dump scheme
Attackers hijacked Microsoft’s official X account, with over 13 million followers, to promote a Clippy crypto token.
Bluesky reply bot checker
Simon Willison released a Bluesky checker that flags likely automated reply bots.
Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies
An agentic tool-using framework detects conspiratorial intent in Hebrew tweets better than text-only models.
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Greece's prime minister warned AI policy lags chatbot and job risks while courting data-center investment.
US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'
The US called Australia's proposed social-media algorithm opt-out law censorship of protected speech.
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Bots with good manners are better at fooling people on social media
Surfshark's study of 1,722 participants found people detect only 40% of AI bots on social media, with polite, positive bots hardest to identify.
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European Commission set to push social media restrictions, safety requirements into law
The European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, barring under-13s from social media, mandating safe-by-design rules, and fining violators up to 6% of global revenue.
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Structured Claim-Level Discourse Representations for Dense Health Narratives
Researchers propose a claim-level discourse framework for health videos, finding 13.22 atomic claims per minute and that LLMs struggle with pragmatic profiling.
EU Chief Warns of AI-Powered Hacking, Moves to Rein In Social Media
EU Commission President von der Leyen warned AI will enable unprecedented hacking and announced Kids Act and Digital Fairness Act proposals regulating social media.
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Meta AI builds detailed profiles of children from years of family posts
Meta AI suggested questions about a child and assembled detailed family profiles from years of Facebook posts, including a photo deleted years ago.
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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
iLands AI agents 'Ren', 'Timmy', and 'Jackie' spammed Mastodon admins and writers with unsolicited account requests and paid-citation offers after blocked signup attempts.
Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says disabling ranked feeds cuts engagement up to 50%, amid Australian legislation that would force platforms to offer algorithm opt-outs.
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Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent
Meta's new Muse AI agent took the @muse Instagram and X handles long used by the English rock band Muse.
"Shut Up and Let Me Enjoy My Otome": Understanding and Measuring the Toxicity in Otome Game Communities
First large-scale study finds 22.20% of Weibo otome game posts toxic versus 3.71% on Reddit, with LLM detectors reaching 0.82 F1.