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Digital Onboarding grabs $58M to help banks with profitable customer engagement
Digital Onboarding, a SaaS company specializing in helping financial institutions strengthen relationships with customers, secured $58 million in growth capital from Volition Capital to continue ...
Empowering Minds in the Digital Age: South Africa Marks Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2025
As the world celebrates Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week 2025, taking place from 24 to 31 October, South Africa joins the global community in championing the power of informed, ...
Australia's social media ban is here, but what does it really mean?
Public debate on the ban has focused on parenting choices. But the real issue is corporate compliance, technical design, and safe spaces for young people.
Social media ban on under 16s a ‘sticking plaster on gaping wound’, Dáil hears
A ban on social media for under 16s “amounts to putting a sticking plaster on a gaping wound”, Social Democrats leader Holly ...
UK ‘would consider’ Australia-style social media ban for under-16s
UK government ‘would consider’ Australia-style social media ban for under-16s - The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said ministers would be keeping a close eye on the success of Australia’s policy ...
Under 16 social media UK ban update as Lisa Nandy says 'young people struggling'
Australia has introduced a new law, the first of its kind in the world, which prohibits children under 16 from using major social media sites. This law took effect today, and it is up to social media ...
"Culture shift": Parliamentary committee backs social media ban for NZ
Parliament's education committee is recommending New Zealand consider following Australia in banning under 16s from social media.
String of celebrity scandals renews debate on South Korea's 'cancel culture'
In a matter of days, three big entertainers in South Korea have made headlines in separate scandals.
Austria's International Oscar Submission ‘Peacock' Is a Darkly Comic Take on Rent-A-Friend, Social Media Culture
Bernhard Wenger's Venice Critics' Week hit starring Albrecht Schuch satirizes identity, social roles and the absurdities of ...
The 13 Biggest Pop Culture Moments That Got Everyone Talking in 2025
From Taylor Swift's engagement to Robert Irwin's big win, here's the best, worst and weirdest of the year ...
Old-school paparazzi culture that seriously harmed stars’ well-being
When flashbulbs became weapons against stars Before social media gave celebrities control over their images, paparazzi ...
StickyHive Launches First AI Community Management Software Built Natively for Leading Online Community Platforms
About the company: StickyHive is the first AI community management software built natively for leading online community and ...
Show HN: Vieta Space, a visual LaTeX math editor
Vieta Space was built to reduce the friction of writing and editing LaTeX for mathematical expressions.Existing tools often slow down math communication and force a slow iteration cycle of manual LaTeX. The growing demand for digital math across classrooms, research, and LLM based workflows made a faster and more direct editor necessary.The project focuses on visual construction, natural language actions, and stable structural behavior.It's free. Feedback on usability and future directions
Meredith buys Genex and New Media Strategies
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Media and marketing company Meredith Corp. said it has acquired acquired two marketing firms, Genex and New Media Strategies, for an undisclosed sum. Meredith said the deals ...
University of Montana game design student finds winning strategies
Brittany Westlund, a third-year graduate student living in Kalispell, is enrolled in the University of Montana's new Master of Fine Arts in Game Design and Interactive Media program.
Differentiate on social media and win: Why brands must have unique content strategies on platforms like X
Researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Maryland have published a study that examines whether and how firms might differentiate themselves from close competitors using a ...
Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention
Hi HN, I’m Cyril from CTGT. Today we’re launching Mentat (https://docs.ctgt.ai/api-reference/endpoint/chat-completions), an API that gives developers deterministic control over LLM behavior, steering reasoning and removing bias on the fly, without the compute of fine-tuning or the brittleness of prompt engineering. We use feature-level intervention and graph-based verification to fix hallucinations and enforce policies.This resonates in highly regulated industries or oth
Does Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Cause Trauma?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is synonymous with supporting individuals on the autism spectrum, even though the theory on which it is grounded is purely scientific and applicable to any population, ...
Where Psychoanalysis and Behavior Analysis Overlap
Throughout the past several decades, psychoanalysis and behavior analysis have been presented as the two opposite sides of clinical psychology. Psychoanalysis focuses on unseen forces and behavior ...
BHN opens new autism centers in WMass, Fall River
The centers provide applied behavior analysis services designed to help children with autism build communication, social, and ...