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Policy & Regulation
Teen Social Media Bans: Which Laws Are Surviving Court Challenges in 2026
Governments around the world are drawing a legal line between adolescents and social media platforms. Australia's law banning users under 16 from major platforms took effect in late 2024 and became the most aggressive age restriction the world had seen from a democratic government.
Digital Economy
AI Search Kills the Click: How Google and Meta Are Reinventing Their Ad Models
For thirty years, a simple transaction has underwritten the internet economy: someone types a question into a search box, gets a list of links, and clicks one. Advertisers bid for prime placement in those results.

Infrastructure & Cloud
GraphQL vs. REST in 2026: The API Design Debate That Won’t Die
The Debate That Refuses to Resolve Few technical debates in software engineering have persisted as stubbornly as GraphQL versus REST. Created by Facebook (now Meta) in 2012 for internal mobile development — led by Dan Schafer, Lee Byron, and Nick Schrock to power Facebook's

Policy & Regulation
Big Tech on Trial: The Global Antitrust Wave Reshaping the Tech Industry in 2025-2026
The dream of Silicon Valley's golden era — that technology companies could grow without limits, displace entire industries, and operate by their own rules — is colliding with a global regulatory reckoning in 2025 and 2026. Antitrust authorities in the United States, European

