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Deputy communications minister Teo Nie Ching said the restrictions are to ensure that internet addiction can be properly addressed and that young people receive the protection they need. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA: Restrictions on social media use by teenagers should apply across all social media and not just Facebook and Instagram, deputy communications minister Teo Nie Ching said today. She said the government hoped that restrictions on Facebook and Instagram users under the age of 18, including a 2-hour limit on daily usage, and restricted access between midnight and 6am, will be extended across the world as soon as possible, Bernama reported. She said the safety features should not be limited to users in the US alone, as young people in other countries also face the risk of internet addiction. Following a US legal settlement, Facebook and Instagram will restrict access to young people under the age of 18 and discontinue features such as “infinite scroll” and “auto-feed”, while Meta has also pledged to hide the number of “likes” for underage users. Teo said measures to protect young people must be implemented comprehensively by all social media platforms. Restrictions on Facebook and Instagram alone would not be sufficient if other

A teenager holds her smartphone displaying a logo "ban under 15" in Brussels on July 7, 2026. The European Commission estimated, on July 6, 2026, that the French bill banning social media access for children under 15 was not fully compatible with European Union law, while reaffirming its support for the initiative. Like France, Spain and Denmark are also working on the introduction of a digital age of majority to follow Australia's example, who became in December 2025 the first country to implement such a law. Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP via Getty Images UNICEF estimates that 20 million children ages 12 to 17 were touched by some kind of tech-enabled sexual exploitation or abuse in a recent 12-month period, across 21 countries. Close to 60% of those cases trace back to five mainstream apps — WhatsApp, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook — while only 14% involved online games. Hispanic teens in the U.S. rank among the heaviest daily users of TikTok, the very kind of platform UNICEF's data flags most often, according to separate Pew Research Center surveys. A Global Number With a Familiar Shape UNICEF put a hard number on the problem on September 3: by its

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Pune Man Poses as Woman on Snapchat, Dupes Man of ₹1.5 Lakh in Crypto Scam The Bridge Chronicle Published on :  05 Sep 2026, 11:21 am IST Pune, 5th September 2026: A 25-year-old man allegedly posed as a woman on Snapchat, developed a friendship with a man over seven months and duped him of around ₹1.5 lakh in a cryptocurrency scam. The accused has been identified as Kunal Jitendra Admane (25), a resident of the Parvati area. According to the cyber police, Admane created a fake Snapchat account in the name of Prinsika Joshi and used it to establish contact with the complainant. Join our WhatsApp Channel to Stay Updated! The complainant received a friend request on Snapchat from an account named Prinsika Joshi. After accepting the request, the two began communicating regularly over the phone and on social media. After gaining the complainant’s trust, the accused allegedly told him that investing in cryptocurrency could provide high financial returns. The complainant subsequently transferred 1,468 USDT, equivalent to around ₹1.5 lakh, to a crypto wallet provided by the accused. When the complainant later asked about the returns and the withdrawal of his money, the person behind the account allegedly began avoiding

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Stockinq/Shutterstock You're jamming out to YouTube Music, whether a curated playlist or one of your own, and suddenly, an artist or track pops up that you're not fond of. Maybe it's a different genre or maybe the theme kills your mood, but whatever the case, it's a pretty common occurrence. It actually happens most often if you've left the autoplay feature enabled. When a playlist or album finishes, that allows YouTube's algorithm to play something it recommends, which may or may not jive with your tastes. It's the one setting that could be single-handedly ruining your playlists. Other times, the background algorithm gets messed up after referencing your general history, including across standard YouTube and possibly other, similar users' tastes, or even others in your household using the same YouTube account or the same devices. There's actually a pretty simple fix for all of this, though it comes with a caveat. The solution is to create a separate profile for use with YouTube Music specifically, and only use that profile to listen to music. More specifically, listen to artists, tracks, and content you love, and try to avoid branching out or exploring unless it's something you know for sure you'll

A TikTok creator rented out her 2018 Toyota Camry for a few days and expected it back on a Tuesday. Instead, she ended up standing in a stranger’s driveway watching a man pull parts out of it, and he told her he had bought the car four days earlier. Brionte (@shifilestaxes), a tax preparer whose TikTok account otherwise promotes her filing business, posted the confrontation in a one-minute, 30-second video that has drawn more than 7.9 million views.  “Hi, how are you? This is my car,” she says as she walks up. The man tells her he bought it four days ago. “I hate to hear that, because this is my car. I own this car,” she answers.  “This is a rental car,” she continues. “Whoever you bought it from, they were renting it from me. So, you gotta call them, but I’m gonna be taking this car.” She keeps going while he keeps working: “I have a rental contract and everything from them. They were supposed to return it on Tuesday.” The Camry was in the driveway rather than on the road because it would not start.  » Read More

A routine Facebook marketplace purchase has taken a dark turn, after the buyer became the victim of a completely random stabbing in Adelaide’s south-east. Police are still hunting for the attacker, who set upon the victim on a Glenside street. A routine Facebook marketplace purchase has taken a dark turn, after the buyer became the victim of a completely random stabbing in Adelaide’s south-east. 9News Andy had been chatting to a man he'd just sold a chair to while out on the side of the road. But before the buyer could stash his new purchase in the boot of his car, he was stabbed by a third party in a random attack. "They were just casually speaking outside then, from what I heard, he just step in between them and then just stabbed two times to the neck," Andy's wife Ruby told 9News. The terrified men raced inside. "He kept yelling call the police, call the police there's a crazy person outside," Ruby said.  » Read More

Vimeo stock (ISIN US92719V1008) left public markets following a cash merger completed in late 2025, yet the underlying Vimeo business remains under scrutiny as restructuring and layoffs continue under its new ownership as of September 5, 2026. Cash merger closed at 7.85 dollars per share According to a corporate actions tracker from a major retail brokerage, Vimeo stock was removed from customer accounts after the company was taken private via a cash merger at 7.85 dollars per share on November 25, 2025. The tracker notes that existing shareholders received 7.85 dollars in cash for each VMEO share at the closing of the transaction, marking the effective exit price from the public market and ending NASDAQ trading in the stock. For investors who held VMEO through that date, the 7.85 dollars cash consideration represented the final settlement value in the merger. While the precise premium versus the last unaffected trading price is not detailed in the tracker snippet, the fixed cash amount is the key figure that defined the deal economics for public shareholders at closing in November 2025. Post-acquisition layoffs reshape Vimeo under new owner After the cash merger, Vimeo was acquired by technology firm Bending Spoons, and the business

14-year-old accused in Volusia school shooting threats, sheriff's office says HOLLY HILL, Fla. — A 14-year-old boy was taken into custody Friday at his home in Holly Hill after allegedly making shooting threats naming two high schools, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office said on social media that its Domestic Security Unit and School Resource Unit worked with the Daytona Beach Police Department to investigate the alleged threats, which were made on Snapchat and claimed that shootings would occur at Seabreeze and Mainland high schools. Volusia County detectives helped Daytona Beach police work with Snapchat and Apple to identify the source of the posts as a 14-year-old Mainland High School student who had been suspended from school a day prior "for making threatening statements on campus," according to the sheriff's office. Deputies contacted the boy, took him into custody, and turned him over to Daytona Beach police to face two counts of making written threats to kill, as well as unlawful use of a two-way communication device, the post states.