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The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16

The UK government is introducing a ban on social media for children and a minimum age for some chatbots in an attempt to shield young people from dangerous corners of the web.

Wired Jun 15, 2026 Joel Khalili, Ben Gartside
Technology Jun 15, 2026

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

Article URL: https://deadline.com/2026/06/uk-social-media-ban-under-16s-x-youtube-tiktok-reddit-1236956163/ Comments UR...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

Article URL: https://mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government

The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for children under 16, Prime M...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small coho...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c77yx1jpg1nt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537709 P...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Openrouter Fusion API

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/fusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537641 Points...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dalus/jobs/5IDmKJt-senior-software-frontend-engineer-germany-office ...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Successful Psilocybin Treatment of Alzheimer

Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1813281/full Comments URL: h...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Apple Foundation Models

Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/libraries/apple-foundation-models Comments URL: htt...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers

Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

Article URL: https://karthinks.com/software/even-more-batteries-included-with-emacs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

Article URL: https://psychedelics.co.uk/news/a-mushroom-genus-that-gets-people-high-but-not-the Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

The rich aren't your role models

Article URL: https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/the-rich-arent-your-role-models-theyre-your-oppressors...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/ Comme...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

US and Iran announce deal to end military operations

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj0grpyg4v1t Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533976 Poi...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

Article URL: https://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice

Article URL: https://iza.ac/posts/2026/06/food-authenticity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853382...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

Article URL: https://twitter.com/maattttbrown/status/2066215255987163246 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

Article URL: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/the-jqwik-anti-ai-affair/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Did Anthropic Ask for This?

Article URL: https://www.verysane.ai/p/did-anthropic-ask-for-this Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Frank founder Charlie Javice is reportedly asking Trump for a pardon

Javice isn't the only convicted former tech executive looking for Trump's help.

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

Article URL: https://bramcohen.com/p/why-is-claude-turning-into-an-asshole Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Startup CEO Charlie Javice is reportedly angling for a Trump pardon

JPMorgan can't be pleased by any of this.

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-users-are-tired-of-microsoft-account-requir...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Abu Fanous

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Fanous Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532722 Point...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Zinnia: A modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust

Article URL: https://zinnia-os.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532705 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks

Last year, the FBI opened a Cyber Range in Huntsville, Alabama, for simulating cyberattacks. Think of it sort of like th...