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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

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.

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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.

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

OpenAI said it is working to fix the issue.

Evening Standard

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

The outage was first reported at around 6pm.

Evening Standard

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

TechRadar

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Android Central

‘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.

The Conversation

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

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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.

The Conversation

Cat videos and wild caracals: how the internet’s viral trends can help conservation

Have you recently opened YouTube or TikTok and immediately gone looking for cat videos? If your answer is “yes”, then you’re not alone: the global consumption of cat-related media online is simply massive. In 2015, there were over 2 million cat videos on YouTube alone, with an average of 12,000…

Latin Times

Iowa's Altoona Police Department Pleads with People to Stop Sending Them Nasty Messages Meant for Pennsylvania

The Iowa police department begged users to stop the nasty messages meant for the department that arrested the suspected killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

Fortune

The debate over open vs closed AI models is ‘ridiculous,’ Meta AI exec says

Manohar Paluri, a leader in Meta’s generative AI group, spoke at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco.

RideApart

Watch a Motorcycle Cop Try to Pop a Wheelie, But Immediately Crash Into a Crowd

Though I'm not quite up on my California laws, I'm pretty sure popping a wheelie is against them. Something about reckless riding, endangerment, and stunting comes to mind, though I can't quite put my finger on it. That said, those laws don't always stop people from popping the clutch and sending…

The Independent UK

Family heartbroken after dog shot dead by cops responding to ‘swatting’ call

Owner Justin Carr said Zeta was ‘the sweetest dog’ and ‘did not deserve this’

Newslaundry

‘Trend of blocking services for anonymous users’: iMAP India report

In its latest annual report on digital censorship in India, internet watchdog Internet Monitoring Action Project pointed to the blocking of news content websites Hindutva Watch and the Kashmir Walla and what “appears to be a trend in blocking services that allow users to operate the internet anonymously”.

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