‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services
‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back
Reddit to comply with Australia’s ‘legally erroneous’ under-16 social media ban
Platform to introduce age-prediction model analysing users but argued to eSafety commissioner it was a source of information not a social media platform
Lord Maxton obituary
Labour MP, working peer and champion of Scottish devolution who believed Westminster should be turned into a museum
Social media use damages children’s ability to focus, say researchers
Study of 8,300 US children suggests social media may be contributing to a rise in ADHD diagnoses
Boy, 15, clears Snapchat’s visual age check ahead of Australia’s social media ban taking full effect
Sydney teen, who used fake date of birth when creating account, asked to verify age through selfie before Wednesday’s ban begins
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems
Exclusive: Campaign urges PM to show independence from US and push to rein in development of superintelligence
A US psychologist prescribed a social media ban for kids. How did Australia become the test subject?
From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it has been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 December
I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off?
As I come to terms with life as a quadriplegic, Instagram and TikTok are a reminder I’m not alone
Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar
Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackers
Albanese defends decision to sign off on $100,000 US trip for Anika Wells and staff
Communications minister also faces scrutiny over taxpayer-funded family trip to Thredbo
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
Harbadus attacks Andvaria: cyber war game tests Nato defences against Russia
Power blackouts, public chaos and loss of communication with space were all thrown at troops in seven days
Cloudflare apologises after latest outage takes down LinkedIn and Zoom
Web infrastructure provider says problem lasted half an hour and was not an attack, weeks after larger outage