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Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million

Australia is set to enforce its age limit for social media accounts starting next week, and the platforms must provide monthly reports on how many children's accounts they have closed or face fines.

Hulu renews Chad Powers for season 2, and Glen Powell says it actually has a satisfying arc planned

Chad Powers will return back to the playing field and star Glenn Powell teased they've had big plans for its future.

Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations, multicloud networking, zero trust network access (ZTNA), and SD-WAN.

US cyber progress isn’t stalled

The truth is that 2025 marks the year where U.S. cybersecurity finally shifted from policy to practice. The post US cyber progress isn’t stalled — it’s evolving first appeared on Federal News Network.

Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys stake tests independence of open AI interconnect standard

Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in chip design software maker Synopsys on Monday, placing the GPU giant in the unusual position of holding substantial equity in a company that serves on the board of an industry consortium developing technology that competes with Nvidia’s own interconnect te

Nvidia’s Kimberly Powell is applying AI to expedite drug discovery

Bringing a new drug to market usually requires a decade-long, multibillion-dollar journey, with a high failure rate in the clinical trial phase. Nvidia’s Kimberly Powell is at the center of a major industry effort to apply AI to the challenge.

Outdated SEC communications rules are putting compliance and competitiveness at risk

"[T]he burden is both on the firm as well as on the regulator to try to parse through these very large sets of data," said Robert Cruz. The post Outdated SEC communications rules are putting compliance and competitiveness at risk first appeared on Federal News Network.

Fox News AI Newsletter: How to stop AI from scanning your email

The Fox News AI Newsletter gives readers the latest AI technology advancements, covering the challenges and opportunities AI presents.

US federal software reform bill aims to strengthen software management controls

Software management struggles that have pained enterprises for decades cause the same anguish to government agencies, and a bill making its way through the US House of Representatives to strengthen controls around government software management holds lessons for enterprises too.

OpenAI’s Michelle Pokrass is focused on ChatGPT power users

Last year, OpenAI decided it had to pay more attention to its power users, the ones with a knack for discovering new uses for AI: doctors, scientists, and coders, along with companies building their own software around OpenAI’s API.

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La checklist del CIO per ottenere dall’intelligenza artificiale un ROI positivo

All’inizio di quest’anno, il MIT ha fatto notizia perché, in un rapporto [in inglese], ha rilevato che il 95% delle aziende non sta ottenendo alcun ritorno dall’intelligenza artificiale, nonostante investimenti sostanziosi.

The future for women investors is in danger

Only about 10 percent of venture funds ever make it to a fourth vintage. Of those, just 5 to 10 percent are led by women. I’m one of them.  When I started Female Founders Fund in 2014, I believed that solid returns and conviction would speak for themselves.

CompTIA training targets workplace AI use

IT training and certification provider CompTIA this week released an updated version of its AI Essentials learning program designed to help employees develop AI skills for workplace use with tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini.

Christmas shopping? AI tools can help you make the most of the holiday rush

Shopping assistant chatbots were a novelty a year ago. Now, they’re everywhere. After rolling out AI-powered assistants, online retailers and tech companies have been adding more artificial intelligence features to make online shopping easier and more convenient.

Find a lost phone that is off or dead

Essential phone settings to enable before losing your device, including Find My network, location services and security features for iPhone and Android.

Sesame’s Rachel Taylor trains AI assistants to behave

Rachel Taylor began her career as a creative director in the advertising business, a job that gave her plenty of opportunity to micromanage the final product. “I had control of the script,” she remembers. “I could think about the intonation, and I could give the actor notes.

Jeff Bezos calls his AI company ‘Project Prometheus.’ So does this California lawyer

Jeff Bezos last month went public with his new AI firm, which is currently being called Project Prometheus. The effort had been in development for a while, but is still relatively secretive. There’s no website and only a sparse LinkedIn page describing itself as “AI for the physical economy.

Instead of toys or cash, children are wishing for in-game currency under the tree this holiday season

As gaming platforms Roblox and Fortnite have exploded in popularity with Gen Alpha, it’s no surprise that more than half of children in the U.S. are putting video games high on their holiday wish lists.

Developers urged to immediately upgrade React, Next.js

Developers using the React 19 library for building application interfaces are urged to immediately upgrade to the latest version because of a critical vulnerability that can be easily exploited by an attacker to remotely run their own code.

Top YouTube app for Android TV compromised to serve malware - here's what we know, and how to stay safe

SmartTube suffered a major breach that introduced hidden background code, triggering community alarm, Play Protect warnings, and urgent calls for caution.

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Renowned astronomers push to protect Chile's cherished night sky from an industrial project

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast.

Cooling crisis at CME: A wakeup call for modern infrastructure governance

There are several lessons that IT executives can learn from the Thanksgiving outage that led to an hours long shutdown of the global financial system of CME Group, an organization that describes itself as the “world’s leading derivatives marketplace.

Venmo announces it is 'back up and running' following widespread service outage

Venmo says that an issue impacting the payment service has been fixed and it is “back up and running,” after users reported trouble sending and receiving money.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbies Trump and Republicans over AI chip restrictions

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia’s highly valued computer chips to U.S. rivals like China.

America's most-used password in 2025 revealed

Cybersecurity research shows weak passwords remain a major threat, with simple patterns and number sequences putting millions of accounts at risk.

The complete guide to Node.js frameworks

Node.js is one of the most popular server-side platforms, especially for web applications. It gives you non-blocking JavaScript without a browser, plus an enormous ecosystem. That ecosystem is one of Node’s chief strengths, making it a go-to option for server development.

Looking to supercharge your Raspberry Pi? This adapter provides two full-sized HDMI ports and a PCIe connector - and it only costs $10

The $10 Waveshare adapter expands Raspberry Pi 5 connectivity through dual HDMI support and a functional PCIe M.2 slot.

Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million

Australia is set to enforce its age limit for social media accounts starting next week, and the platforms must provide monthly reports on how many children's accounts they have closed or face fines.

Hulu renews Chad Powers for season 2, and Glen Powell says it actually has a satisfying arc planned

Chad Powers will return back to the playing field and star Glenn Powell teased they've had big plans for its future.

Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations, multicloud networking, zero trust network access (ZTNA), and SD-WAN.