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- Facebook offering TikTok and YouTube creators $3,000 to post contentMeta wants creators to "rediscover" Facebook, but a social media expert says viewers will not follow.
- US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breachesThe fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.
- Child seen in sex abuse videos identified after researcher spots school badgeAn analyst tells the BBC how she tracked down a victim of child sexual abuse after years of searching.
- Amazon's Alexa has had an AI upgrade. Now she's got more to sayThere has been criticism the Echo has stagnated, while other AI chatbots have become much easier to communicate with.
- Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artistsHowever, the government's position is now unclear, saying it "no longer has a preferred option" for what to do next.
- Quantum pioneers win Turing Award for encryption breakthroughIt is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.
