On Monday night, the House passed a weaker version of the Senate’s Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, aimed at regulating the tech industry and protecting children online. Whether this is a good thing ...

A US judge has allowed a lawsuit against Meta to move forward over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict ...

Australia is tightening the leash on social media companies. According to new legislation introduced in parliament, the ...

Addictive apps. Persuasive features. Deceptive patterns. Is Big Tech’s ‘defective design’ really a design problem? A ...

The House on June 29 passed legislation to require new online safety protections for children, a sign of growing momentum in ...

This story by Julia Conley appeared on Common Dreams on June 30, 2026. Opponents of a bill that is purported to protect children online said Monday night, after the legislation passed in the US House, ...

Mummy, please can I have dark green nail varnish?” “Please can I have those Nike trainers?” “Please can I walk to the park by myself?” And the question most frequentl ...

UC Berkeley researchers trained AI to detect hidden warning signs of sudden cardiac death in routine ECG tests, according to ...

Cannes Lions and VidCon showed that advertisers are more interested in creators than ever while creators are less interested in Hollywood.

Nearly six years after Quibi’s collapse, Vanity Fair spoke with the creators, producers, and executives turning Jeffrey ...

In a strange way, the fantasy of painlessness is particularly fraught for director Madeleine Rotzler, a scion of the Sackler ...

The UK government's proposed social media ban for under-16s has sparked widespread debate about online safety and platform ...