Thursday, November 28, 2024

Australia passes youth social media ban. Now, it has to figure out how it will actually work

Two girls who appear to be teens are shown sitting on a step, with one holding up a phone.

Australia on Thursday passed into law a social media ban for those under 16 years old, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of the toughest regulations targeting Big Tech.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-social-media-ban-1.7395487?cmp=rss

Mexico steels itself for the return of a hostile President Trump

A woman speaks at a podium. The Mexican flag is behind her.

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum got a foretaste of what dealing with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will be like on Wednesday night when she was forced to correct what appeared to be his mischaracterizations of their first conversation.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-mexico-trade-border-tariff-1.7395405?cmp=rss

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Record snowfall hits Seoul, grounds hundreds of flights and knocks out power

Pedestrians are seen during a snowstorm in Seoul.

South Korea's capital was blanketed on Wednesday by the heaviest snowfall in Seoul during November on record, with bad weather snarling traffic, knocking out power and grounding hundreds of flights as authorities braced for more snow in coming days.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/seoul-snowstorm-south-korea-1.7394836?cmp=rss