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World's Strictest Social Media Law: 9 Platforms Must Block Everyone Under 16 or Pay $33M

Australia expanded its world-first under-16 social media ban to include Reddit and Kick, effective December 10. Nine platforms—Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Threads, Reddit, and Kick—face AU$49.5M fines for non-compliance. WhatsApp and gaming platforms are exempt.

International Business Times · Nov 5, 2025

Australia adds Reddit and Kick to world-leading social media ban for children under 16

The ban takes force Dec. 10.

Euronews · Nov 5, 2025

Reddit added to Australia’s under-16s social media ban as ‘dynamic’ list of online services grows

Popular platform added to list of companies required to restrict access for children, along with video streaming site Kick

The Guardian - AU · Nov 4, 2025

Amazon explains exactly why its cloud server outage took down much of the internet

Some 2,000 companies were affected by the outage with more than 8 million people reporting issues.

Euronews · Oct 24, 2025

Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline

AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications

The Guardian - AU · Oct 24, 2025

‘I was getting impatient’: Louisiana woman goes on first date in New Orleans with Texas man. Then she almost loses her life

A woman went on a first date with a man, only to “almost get killed,” after a hectic night that lasted until 8 a.m. In a video with over 85,000 views, Madeleine Boykin (@madeleineboykin) described a chance encounter and first date with a Texas man that she chatted with on…

The Mary Sue · Oct 22, 2025

People woken up by beds becoming uncomfortably warm after huge internet outage

Amazon Web Services outage that took Snapchat and others offline also affected internet-enabled beds

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025

How many more AWS outages until the internet builds a real backup plan? Experts answer the $2.5 billion question

The AWS outage that crippled Snapchat also exposed the shocking fragility of critical infrastructure and took out governments.

Tom’s Guide · Oct 21, 2025

AWS was down — live updates following massive outage that broke the internet

Amazon Web Services experienced experiencing a huge global outage. While a fix was attempted, it seemed to have knocked out other services. Here's a live report on what's happened, why it's happened and when a fix is occurred.

Tom’s Guide · Oct 21, 2025

Amazon fixes huge AWS outage that broke much of the internet – here's what happened

A huge AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage took out dozens of apps and services yesterday –here's what happened.

TechRadar · Oct 21, 2025