teenagers

When I met Christine McVie she was still Christine Perfect, the singer and piano player in the band Chicken Shack. I say “met” – this amounted to me plugging in her microphone, bringing her a glass of water and shyly thanking her at the end of the gig at the Juniper Blossom blues club that I helped run when I was 15 and still at school.The blues boom was in full swing and Chicken Shack, led by guitarist Stan Webb, had a big following at the time: along with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, they were one of the top UK blues…

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It’s blockbuster season. Cressida Cowell, author of two successful series, returns with a new franchise that shares magical DNA with its immediate predecessor, The Wizards of Once. Starring two warring sets of step-siblings, Which Way to Anywhere (Hachette, £12.99 hardback) finds a family repressing its witchy past, the better to hide from interdimensional beings trying to regain a stolen map of their interlocking worlds.With his ability to illustrate at will, young K2 O’Hero is in particular danger from THE EXCORIATOR…

The summer before 14-year-old Alexander Neville would have entered high school, he sat both of his parents down at the kitchen table in their Aliso Viejo home and told them he’d been taking Oxycontin pills he bought on Snapchat. He had self-medicated with pot in the past, but this was different.“It has a hold on me, and I don’t know why,” he told them in 2020.Alexander’s mother, Amy Neville, said they called a treatment program the next day and were waiting to hear back on rehab facilities. Alexander got a haircut, went…

In a world full of Web2 vulnerabilities, Web3 could’ve saved Uber from attacks Two weeks ago, ride-sharing service Uber witnessed a major cyber security breach that forced it to take several critical systems offline following an alleged social engineering attack on an employee by an apparent teenage hacktivist. The incident came to light late on Thursday 15 September according to the New York Times, an individual claiming responsibility for the attack shared screengrabs of various compromised Uber resources with the…

The platform is not the first Meta company to be fined by the Irish Data Protection Commission.Image: Kirill Kudryavstev (Getty Images)Ireland is not fucking around with Meta. The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined the social media platform Instagram €405 million over its alleged mishandling of data from business accounts run by 13 to 17 year olds.Instagram was just served a hefty fine of €405 million from the Irish Data Protection Center over its alleged mishandling of children’s data—that’s a little over $400…

Instagram has been reportedly slapped with EUR 405 million (roughly Rs. 3,200 crore) fine on Monday for violating strict European Union data privacy rules. The Meta-owned social media platform has been found to mishandle the personal information of teenagers. The Ireland's Data Protection Commission's investigation allegedly revealed that Instagram displayed the personal information of users between the age of 13 and 17 years. Instagram's parent Meta disagrees with the way the fine was calculated and has expressed its…

The children’s author Joseph Delaney, who has died aged 77, was best known for the series of novels that began with The Spook’s Apprentice (2004), and the 2014 film based on it, Seventh Son.The Spook’s Apprentice, Delaney’s first published novel, was quick to find success and he went on to sell more than 4m children’s books worldwide. However, getting to be an author had not been as instantaneous as that might look.A teacher and subsequently head of the department of English and media studies at Blackpool sixth form…

A giant pipeline spewed millions of gallons of fuel into a nature preserve for more than two weeks until two teens on four-wheelers noticed the spill and alerted authorities. The teenagers discovered the leak in the Colonial Pipeline in August 2020 in the Oehler Nature Preserve outside Charlotte, North Carolina, E&E News reports. Just how massive the leak actually was — about 2 million gallons — came to light recently on Friday, July 22nd. Colonial Pipeline Company was required to give an updated estimate of the…

The decision to axe the Blue Peter book awards has been labelled by authors and agents as “devastating” and a “horrible loss” for the books industry, in particular for children’s publishing. The prize, which was awarded to both fiction and non-fiction books for children and promoted through the eponymous children’s TV show, had been running for 22 years. It was announced on Tuesday that the 2022 awards, the winners of which were announced in March, were the last.The news comes less than a month after the Costa book awards…