Australia passes law banning children from social media
In a milestone decision, Australia's Senate on Thursday passed laws to ban children and teenagers from using social media, in the first such decision by any government across the globe.
Tourist takes to Reddit about overcharging in Athens taxi ride
A tourist has taken to Reddit to ask if he was ripped off by a Greek taxi driver who charged him 160 euros for a ride from Athens Airport to Piraeus.
Türkiye restricts Discord access over child safety concerns, crime issues
Türkiye restricted access to the popular messaging platform Discord early Wednesday, citing ongoing discussions about the platform's role in online crimes involving minors.
In a statement, Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç announced that access to Discord from Türkiye has been restricted due to sufficient suspicion of crimes like "child sexual abuse and obscenity."
Reddit gives OpenAI access to its wealth of posts
OpenAI will have access to Reddit data for training its artificial intelligence models and will put its technology to work at the popular discussion platform, the companies said Thursday.
Reddit, which debuted on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year, has been seeking to capitalize on the value of exchanges in its varied discussion groups as it seeks to improve revenues.
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An astrophysicist explains why even if you were right next to the Voyager probes 15 billion miles from the sun you could still see them
Reddit users asked: If you were in space near the Voyager probes, would you be able to see them?
13 People who work in job fields involving death share their creepiest ghost stories
The question was, “Redditors who have worked around death/burial, what’s your best ghost story?”
Serena Williams gives birth to second child, a daughter
Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, she posted on Aug. 22 on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis star.
Adira River Ohanian is the second child — and second daughter — for the 41-year-old Williams and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Their first, Olympia, was born in 2017.
Croat Detained for Posting Videos of Him Racially Abusing Foreigners
The main square in Zagreb. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT
The 35-year-old man from Ivanic Grad, 30km from Zagreb, is in custody, police said on Monday.
Police said the video could qualify as a criminal offence of public incitement to violence and hatred. The law stipulates a prison sentence of up to three years for this crime.
One-hour blackouts on major websites around the world!
The website of the White House, Amazon, FT, Bloomberg, Reddit, Guardian were down
Social media, news websites hit by major internet outage
Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on June 8 morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites.