Snapchat Launches Age-Verification in Australia Ahead of Landmark Social Media Restrictions

By: The Trek News Desk Australia is days away from rolling out one of the world’s toughest social-media restrictions for minors, and Snapchat has become the first major platform to begin nationwide age checks for young users. Starting 10 December, children under 16 will effectively be barred from joining most social media services unless they…

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Global Internet Disruption: DNS Outage at AWS Cripples Major Platforms Including Reddit, Snapchat, and HMRC

By: The Trek News Desk A major technical disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the backbone of much of the modern internet, caused widespread outages across the globe today. The issue, traced back to a critical malfunction in AWS’s Domain Name System (DNS), temporarily rendered dozens of high-profile websites and applications inaccessible. While AWS has…

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