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Why did China hack the world’s phone networks?

Salt Typhoon breached dozens of telecoms around the world

The Guardian - US

Meta Donates Meta Donates Top News Million To Trump's Inauguration Fund Million To Trump's Inauguration Fund

Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, donates Meta Donates Top News Million To Trump's Inauguration Fund million to Trump's inauguration fund. Zuckerberg's evolving stance on Trump and corporate donati...

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Australia plans to tax tech giants if they fail to pay news outlets

Firms like Meta face tax if they don’t pay for news driving traffic to their sites, depriving media firms of revenue.

Al Jazeera

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ChatGPT Outage Sparks Chaos: Top AI Alternatives To Use When It's Down

Thousands of users across the United States struggled to access ChatGPT, while Meta's popular platforms—Facebook and Instagram—were also down worldwide, causing significant disruptions.

International Business Times

News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta

The federal government has revealed a new bargaining chip in the gamble to bring big tech back to the table with news publishers.

The Conversation

Australia To Force Tech Titans To Pay For News

Australia will force Meta and Google to pay for news shared on their platforms under a new scheme unveiled Thursday, threatening to tax them if they refuse to strike deals with local media.

International Business Times

Tech giants to be charged if they fail to pay for news

In a bid to return revenue to Australian news publishers, the government will charge tech giants if they do not pay for local journalism.

AAP

Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge

Big tech companies would have to either do deals with news organisations to help fund journalism or pay a charge to the Australian government, under a new plan announced by the Albanese government on Thursday.

The Conversation

A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far

A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant Meta.

The Conversation

OpenAI hit by outage after ‘technical issue’ impacts Meta social media apps

OpenAI said it is working to fix the issue.

Evening Standard

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Meta ‘99%’ finished fixing ‘technical issue’ that caused widespread blackout

The outage was first reported at around 6pm.

TechRadar

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads were down - here's what you need to know

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads are down or failing - Here's what you need to know

The Guardian - UK

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp outage ‘99%’ resolved, says Meta

Social media firm apologises to those affected by blackout on Wednesday, after more than 100,000 complaints

Android Central

Meta resolves outage that left Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, more unavailable for hours

Nearly all of Meta's services, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, are currently down.

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The Conversation

‘A virtual seat at the family table’: why older people are among the biggest users of social media

The Australian government’s recent decision to ban under 16s from social media has focused attention on the harms it can cause – especially for young people.

Tom’s Guide

Facebook and Instagram were down — latest updates on massive outage

A number of Meta services suddenly went down including Instagram and Facebook.

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Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are down: Everything you need to know about Meta's outage

Tens of thousands of users are reporting outages across Meta's social apps

The National (Scotland)

Are Facebook and Instagram down? Users report issues with social media sites

Users have reported issues with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp today (Wednesday, December 11)

Evening Standard

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all down as 'technical issue' causes massive Meta outage

Meta says ‘technical issue’ impacting some users' ability to access apps

The Independent UK

Meta down: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads not working in major outage

Apparent technical problem knocks all of company’s apps offline

TechRadar

Firefox is ending Do Not Track, but there are better ways to protect your privacy – here's what I recommend

Firefox will soon stop supporting Do Not Track privacy protection, but that’s not as bad as it sounds.

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