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Albanese government forging ahead with social media age restrictions despite Meta’s new Instagram teen accounts

Communications minister Michelle Rowland welcomes Meta’s announcement but suggests it doesn’t strongly enforce its present age limit on Instagram

The Guardian - AU

The door to an Australian tech tax is clearly ajar. Can Labor make it happen?

There’s a long track record of government subsidising traditional media – but patch-up jobs and sweetheart deals have reached the end of their useful lifespan

The Guardian - AU

Astronomical AI Spending Is Causing Jitters on Wall Street

Amid rampant excitement over artificial intelligence, a new round of skepticism is taking hold. Here are four forecasts about the future of generative AI.

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Moo-sage: Indonesia Salon Gets Cows In Shape For Eid Sacrifice

Under a highway in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a brown cow stood calmly as masseur Sumarwan got to work, clenching his fist to beat the animal's legs and help it relax ahead of its sacrifice.

International Business Times

I finally tried the Meta AI in my Ray-Ban smart glasses thanks to an accidental UK launch – and it's by far the best AI wearable

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses finally got the Meta AI in the UK, so I tried it out and was impressed by the results.

TechRadar

‘Show this to everyone’: UK political ads move away from microtargeting

Old approach of seeking ultra-niche audiences has fallen out of favour as main parties spend tens of millions online

The Guardian - UK

Reality TV star Gamble Breaux knew she’d been hacked. Then the deepfakes of the prime minister began to appear

Hundreds of scam ads featuring manipulated videos of Anthony Albanese flooded Facebook via her account before she was able to regain control

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I let the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses pick out my outfit using AI — and I’m shocked by the result

Meta AI on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses can now look through your eyes to help with things like picking out an outfit. Here's what happened when I tried it myself.

Tom’s Guide

Morning Mail: Coalition flies to Cop28, Westpac suffers major outage, UK nuclear site hacked

Customers lose access to accounts and cards after system update failure; conservative lobby groups fund trips by frontbenchers to Cop28

The Guardian - AU

Who is attending Sunak’s AI safety summit – and what will they discuss?

PM hopes Bletchley Park event will be the first of many, as No 10 denies some world leaders have ‘snubbed’ summit

The Guardian - UK

Lil Tay Has Opened Up About The Viral Death Hoax & Shared Who She Believes Was Behind It

Her IG account has been completely wiped with the only post being her faux death announcement.

Pedestrian.tv

Meta and OpenAI face lawsuits from comedian Sarah Silverman and authors

Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden have launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta.

Fortune

Instagram’s Threads is a better photography app than… Instagram

Instagram’s new Threads app is a fresh chance for photographers to engage with communities and showcase their images.

TechRadar

Facebook owner Meta fined €1.2bn for mishandling user information

Penalty from Ireland’s privacy regulator is a record for breach of EU data protection regulation

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The latest Oculus Quest 2 update is here to speed up your game downloads

The v53 Oculus Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro update is here with speedier downloads, stereo audio recording, and browser content filters.

The Guardian - US

Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools

Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley’s Coupa Cafe, but ‘scalability’ is still on the menu as tech workers look forward

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on regulating social media: the internet should be safer

Editorial: Ministers’ ambitions have been scaled back but their bill must protect children robustly

Evening Standard

Cardi B’s ‘debasing’ Marge Simpson photos finally removed by Instagram

The rapper has been in a legal row with famed Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo over ‘copying’ his work

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Evening Standard

The 10 biggest tech stories of 2022

From the rise of King Elon to the killer robots of San Francisco, here is what happened this year

Evening Standard

Father of three freed from Iraqi prison returns home

Mr Glendinning was reunited with his family at Edinburgh Airport on Saturday

The Independent UK

Scot Brian Glendinning freed from Iraqi prison returns home

Mr Glendinning was reunited with his family at Edinburgh Airport on Saturday.

Daily Mirror

Brit locked up for two months over unpaid Qatar debt has flight home delayed

Brian Glendinning was detained in Iraq on an Interpol Red Notice from Qatar over a debt owed to the gulf state's national bank. A mystery donor paid off what was owed

The Guardian - UK

Olena Zelenska says she hopes Musk’s Ukraine peace tweet was ‘chance mistake’

Exclusive: First lady says ‘even smartest people could be influenced by Russian propaganda’

inkl Originals

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 29 October 2022

The fundamentals of the world's largest technology companies are on display this week. Not much of it is peachy.

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Orders Ep 242: Wire vs Meta, India Ahead linked to Delhi liquor scam

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry reporters Ashwine Kumar Singh and Aditi Agarwal.

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