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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat say they will comply with Australia’s ban on social media for minors.

    The social media giants have agreed to boot users under 16 from their platforms by the December 10th deadline, but are still voicing skepticism about the policy’s enforcement and effectiveness.

    Correction: YouTube has also said it disagrees with the law, but has not said it will comply.

    Reuters: Their comments represented a shift in the social media industry’s response to the law, which is being watched by lawmakers around the world as concern grows about youth mental health. Under the Australian law, platforms must take “reasonable steps” to block users aged less than 16 or face a fine of up to A$49.5 million ($32.5 million).

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    Stevie Bonifield
    ISS in Real Time lets you check out what astronauts have been up to every day for the past 25 years.

    November 2nd will mark 25 years of continuous human occupation aboard the International Space Station, and Ars Technica points out this new ISS in Real Time website lets you revisit each and every day.

    You can see crew rosters, camera footage, the astronauts’ schedule, and even listen to recorded announcements.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Australian regulators are suing over last year’s Microsoft 365 price hike.

    When Microsoft bundled Copilot into personal and family plans for Microsoft 365 last year, it raised prices for annual subscriptions by up to 45 percent. However, the Australian regulator ACCC alleges it misled consumers by not advertising a less expensive option without Copilot until consumers tried to cancel, reports The Guardian.

    “Following a detailed investigation, we will allege in Court that Microsoft deliberately omitted reference to the Classic plans in its communications and concealed their existence until after subscribers initiated the cancellation process to increase the number of consumers on more expensive Copilot-integrated plans,” ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Oops, Valve’s Counter-Strike 2 update is crashing its multi-billion dollar skins market.

    As Bloomberg reports, roughly $1.75 billion of value evaporated from the game’s pricey item skins market after an October 22nd update made it easier for players to acquire knife skins. If you’re an average player, that’s probably a welcome change, but it’s caused chaos for traders making thousands, or even millions, of dollars on high-rarity items.

    A screenshot of the CS2 skins market down over 40% after October 22, 2025 patch
    CS2 ‘Market Cap’ as of 10/24 after dropping by more than $3 billion
    Screenshot: Pricempire
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Amazon breaks down the DynamoDB DNS problem that took down AWS on Monday.

    This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours.

    Amazon says its changes in response include temporarily disabling DynamoDB DNS Planner, adding “additional protections” to prevent applying incorrect DNS entries, and improving its testing to identify the kind of recovery problems that caused the outage to drag on.