With the deadline to boot under 16 accounts from social media just a week away and as platforms scramble to implement "robust age-assurance," cyber security experts warn that the demand for age verification creates a scammer's dream.

Plus, if not TikTok and Instagram... where are the teens heading online for the socials fix?

And in headlines today, A safety warning has been issued by the national medicines regulator over popular drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity; Hong Kong authorities have now arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a probe into the city's deadliest fire in decades; Indonesia's president has told survivors of devastating floods that help is arriving to those in need as Asian governments scale up their responses to a disaster that has left more than 1000 dead across three countries; Oxford University Press has named "rage bait'' as its word of the year

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