Global Stories

Cloudflare makes AI crawlers opt-in, giving power to creators

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, letting website owners opt-in to share content, aiming to protect creators and create fair AI content use.

By Melvin Hipolito • 5 min read • Wed, 2nd Jul 2025

Customer Experience

Kip Compton appointed CEO as Fastly reaffirms 2025 guidance

Kip Compton has been named CEO of Fastly, replacing Todd Nightingale, with the company reaffirming its 2025 financial guidance amid the leadership change.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Tue, 17th Jun 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Retail fraud awareness rises with social media, risks USD $107bn

Awareness of retail fraud surges via social media, with risks looming at USD $107bn by 2029 as consumers grow tempted and acceptance rises.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Thu, 22nd May 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Series launches with USD $3m to revolutionise networking

Series, a new social platform aimed at Gen Z, has launched with USD $3 million funding, utilising AI to enhance connections among college students.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Sun, 6th Apr 2025

Generative AI

Fastly unveils AI Accelerator for Azure AI & ChatGPT

Fastly has launched its AI Accelerator, promising nine times faster response times for AI applications, now supporting Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and OpenAI ChatGPT.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Wed, 18th Dec 2024

Marketing Technologies

Australians opt for digital detox as social media use declines

Australians are cutting down on social media use, especially apps like Snapchat and TikTok, as they embrace digital detox, a new report reveals.

By Imee Dequito • 3 min read • Thu, 5th Sep 2024

Cybersecurity

Cybercriminals exploit ChatGPT for near-perfect phishing emails

ReliaQuest's latest report reveals cybercriminals are exploiting ChatGPT and other AI tools to create near-perfect phishing emails, achieving a 2.8% success rate.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Mon, 15th Jul 2024

Robotics

AI is here to stay - share market fads versus trends

AI investments debate trends versus fads, with its longevity, sustainability and growing legal legitimacy suggesting a solid market trend rather than a fleeting hype.

By Greg Boland • 6 min read • Wed, 17th Apr 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Reddit appoints Durgesh Kaushik as VP of International Growth

Durgesh Kaushik takes up a new role as VP of International Growth at Reddit, aiming to increase global user adoption. .

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 5th Dec 2023

Risk & Compliance

Reddit Welcomes Fredrick Lee as Chief Information Security Officer

Reddit appoints Frederick Lee as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), reinforcing their commitment to user privacy and cybersecurity.

By Imee Dequito • 2 min read • Tue, 1st Aug 2023

Strategy

APAC & emerging markets get focus with new Reddit hire

Durgesh Kaushik joins Reddit as VP of APAC & Emerging Markets Growth, responsible for growth, user adoption, and international expansion.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Sat, 17th Dec 2022

Artificial Intelligence

Reddit appoints new VP of Global Mid-Market & SMB Sales

Reddit hires Stephen Riad as VP of Global Mid-Market and SMB Sales and Roelof van Zwol as VP of Ads Engineering to scale advertising business.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 2nd Dec 2022

Google

Reddit bolsters exec team with new VPs

Reddit announces the appointment of three new VPs to executive leadership, while promoting two existing team members. #leadershipchanges #Reddit.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 2nd Sep 2022

Multi-factor authentication

User passwords and email addresses compromised in Reddit breach

Its primary access points for code and infrastructure had required two-factor authentication via SMS, and the main attack intercepted the text.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Thu, 2nd Aug 2018

Marketing Technologies

Malicious Reddit clone fooling users into giving away logins

A simple typo is taking users to a seemingly secure Reddit clone that is actually stealing their login details - we have commentary from two experts.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Thu, 8th Feb 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Cloud outages result in Amazon apology

Amazon apologises and explains the large scale outages in its cloud hosting service that disrupted high traffic websites across the net.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 3rd May 2011

Stories from Other Regions

Data Protection

ICO probes social media platforms on teen data privacy

The ICO has launched investigations into TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur over data privacy issues concerning teenage users, sparking fears of increased scrutiny.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 5th Mar 2025

Virtual Private Networks

Watch cat videos all day. Earn megabucks & outsource. A cautionary tale to employers?

A US employee paid a fifth of his salary to have his job 'outsourced' in China whilst he sat in the office watching Cat videos on reddit.

By Alistair Ross • 3 min read • Tue, 22nd Jan 2013