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YouTube’s new ads are disrupting livestreams by shrinking the video and playing beside it The ads can mute the livestream audio while they play, and some users are also seeing more ads while scrolling through subscriptions on mobile

Meta just threatened to shut down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in an entire US state.. New Mexico sued them for child safety failures.. a jury found them liable.. fined them $375 million.. and now the state wants actual reforms.. age verification, separate teen accounts, real protections.. Meta's response.. "those changes are too hard.. we'd rather leave" a $1.5 trillion company is telling 2 million people it would rather cut them off than make its platform safe for children.. the state attorney general called it a PR stunt.. said Meta rewrites its own rules constantly, redesigns products on demand, and has bent to the demands of dictators to keep market access.. but protecting kids in New Mexico.. that's where they draw the line

In Politico today: Senior 🇪🇺 official admits greater public scrutiny of DSA has lead to meetings becoming secret and his staff using Signal to communicate—thereby making it virtually impossible for voters/journalists to probe work of this EU department. Something to hide?

PlayStation is facing huge backlash over its new age check rules for UK users, some users say their console is almost unusable now To comply with the Online Safety Act, Sony now requires players to prove their age using a face scan with Yoti, a government ID, or a phone number. This is needed to use voice chat, party chats, messaging, broadcasting, and multiplayer features on PS5 and PS4 consoles. Single-player games can still be played without checking, but social and chat features will be locked from June 2026. Sony has had major data leaks before, and Yoti has been fined for data problems. Long-time players are asking why they must prove their age now. Some UK adults do not want face scans saying this breaks consumer rights by removing features people already paid for.