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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Wales host U16 tournament to honour ex-boss Speed
Wales will host a new invitational under-16s tournament later this month in honour of one of the country's "most cherished footballing figures". The Cwpan Gary Speed will see young players from Wales, Japan, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar compete in Ruthin, Buckley and Colwyn Bay between 26-31 August. Former Wales manager Speed died tragically in 2011. "We're very proud to be launching the Cwpan Gary Speed tournament this year, honouring Gary's enduring legacy and his profound impact on Welsh football," said the Football Associaition of Wales' (FAW) chief football officer David Adams. "We hope the tournament will be a good platform for our future talent to compete and develop on the international stage, serving as a powerful reminder of how Gary's passion and commitment to high performance can shape the future of the game." Wales will be managed by Adrian Harvey. Wales squad Harry Barrow (Bradford City), Oscar Hatton (Stoke City), Tom Alcock (Stoke City), Fabian Williams (Aston Villa), Noah Anyadike (Cardiff City), Sonny Peyton (Crewe Alexandra), Joe Deighton (Manchester United), Ali Tucker (Bristol City), Leo Kelleher (Bristol Rovers), Hugo Daniel (Cardiff City), Archie Walls (Blackburn Rovers), Alffi Hughes (Swansea City), Harrison Brown (Brighton & Hove Albion), Ralphie Beckwith (Millwall), Paul Moreno (Cardiff City), Gruffydd Evans (Cardiff City), Axel Donczew (Cardiff City), Jayden Smyth (Wrexham), Dembo Jaiteh (Cardiff City), George Williams (Exeter City), Bobby Lewis (Swansea City), George Thomas (Aston Villa) Fixtures Tuesday, 26 August Northern Ireland v Gibraltar, Ruthin (11:00 BST) Wales v Japan, Colwyn Bay (18:00 BST) Thursday, 28 August Japan v Northern Ireland, Ruthin (11:00 BST) Wales v Gibraltar, Buckley (18:00 BST) Sunday 31. August Gibraltar v Japan, Ruthin (10:30 BST) Wales v Northern Ireland, Colwyn Bay (10:30 BST)
BBC News
7 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Wales host U16 tournament to honour ex-boss Speed
Wales will host a new invitational under-16s tournament later this month in honour of one of the country's "most cherished footballing figures".The Cwpan Gary Speed will see young players from Wales, Japan, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar compete in Ruthin, Buckley and Colwyn Bay between 26-31 Wales manager Speed died tragically in 2011."We're very proud to be launching the Cwpan Gary Speed tournament this year, honouring Gary's enduring legacy and his profound impact on Welsh football," said the Football Associaition of Wales' (FAW) chief football officer David Adams."We hope the tournament will be a good platform for our future talent to compete and develop on the international stage, serving as a powerful reminder of how Gary's passion and commitment to high performance can shape the future of the game." Wales will be managed by Adrian Harvey. Wales squad Harry Barrow (Bradford City), Oscar Hatton (Stoke City), Tom Alcock (Stoke City), Fabian Williams (Aston Villa), Noah Anyadike (Cardiff City), Sonny Peyton (Crewe Alexandra), Joe Deighton (Manchester United), Ali Tucker (Bristol City), Leo Kelleher (Bristol Rovers), Hugo Daniel (Cardiff City), Archie Walls (Blackburn Rovers), Alffi Hughes (Swansea City), Harrison Brown (Brighton & Hove Albion), Ralphie Beckwith (Millwall), Paul Moreno (Cardiff City), Gruffydd Evans (Cardiff City), Axel Donczew (Cardiff City), Jayden Smyth (Wrexham), Dembo Jaiteh (Cardiff City), George Williams (Exeter City), Bobby Lewis (Swansea City), George Thomas (Aston Villa) Fixtures Tuesday, 26 AugustNorthern Ireland v Gibraltar, Ruthin (11:00 BST)Wales v Japan, Colwyn Bay (18:00 BST)Thursday, 28 AugustJapan v Northern Ireland, Ruthin (11:00 BST) Wales v Gibraltar, Buckley (18:00 BST)Sunday 31. AugustGibraltar v Japan, Ruthin (10:30 BST) Wales v Northern Ireland, Colwyn Bay (10:30 BST)
Times
30-07-2025
- Business
- Times
Australia to ban YouTube accounts for under-16s
Australia will add YouTube to the nation's world-first social media ban for under-16s, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video platform. Alphabet, the company that owns YouTube, previously warned it would consider legal action if it was added to the list of platforms affected by the ban, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and Snapchat. The ban will come into force on December 10 after Canberra passed legislation late last year, aimed at preventing anyone aged 16 or under from registering with certain sites. Under the upcoming regulation, teenagers would still be able to view YouTube videos but would not be permitted to have an account, which is required for uploading content or interacting on the platform. The government reversed course after receiving a report on children's engagement with the platform from Julie Inman Grant, the eSafety Commissioner, Australia's social media watchdog. Grant's report revealed nearly four in ten children reported their most recent online harm occurring on YouTube, making it the most frequently cited platform in the eSafety Commissioner's research. The survey of 2,600 children aged 10 to 15 found that 96 per cent of them used at least one social media platform, and about 70 per cent had encountered harmful content, including exposure to misogynistic or hateful material, violent fight videos as well as content that promoted eating disorders. Four in 10 children reported being exposed to harmful content on YouTube. Alphabet had argued YouTube should remain accessible to children as the platform 'offers benefit and value to younger Australians'. YouTube said on Wednesday: 'Our position remains clear: YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content, increasingly viewed on TV screens. It's not social media.' The video-sharing platform and the second largest search engine is accessed by more than 2.7 billion people per month and accounts for about 25 per cent of global mobile traffic. It is used by nearly three-quarters of Australians aged 13 to 15, the company has said. • How will Australia's social media ban for children work? On Sunday, Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister, dismissed Google's threat to sue if Australia restricted children's access to YouTube, saying: 'I say to them that social media has a social responsibility. There is no doubt that young people are being impacted adversely in their mental health by some of the engagement with social media and that is why the government has acted.' YouTube Kids, which Google said was created to give children 'a more contained environment' online, will escape the social media ban, but the main platform will be included.
The Guardian
29-05-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Tech trial for Australia's social media ban ‘broadly on track' amid concerns under 16s could circumvent systems
The technology trial for Australia's social media ban is 'broadly on track', the government says, despite a month-long delay of a key report on the best ways to keep under 16s off the platforms. It comes as the company behind the age assurance trial has revealed only one type of technology has been tested on children so far and some internal stakeholder concerns about how young people may circumvent the age ban systems. The federal government has also been sitting on a separate report, costing more than $275,000, that it commissioned last year on Australians' attitudes to age assurance technology. It was delivered to the government on 2 January but has not yet been released. The UK-based company recruited to run the trial, Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS), was due to publish its age assurance report in June. The report will focus on what technology could be used to prevent under 16s gaining access to social media and under 18s accessing adult websites. The federal communications department has confirmed the ACCS report would now be delivered in July, and the minister would decide when to publish it, a spokesperson said. 'The independent trial of age assurance technologies remains broadly on track, in line with project delivery timeframes,' the spokesperson said. Briefing documents from Senate estimates in February, released under freedom of information laws, stated the final report 'is due in June 2025'. ACCS had previously stated the report was due 'at the end of June', and it would independently publish it. One of the first tasks for the new communications minister, Labor's Anika Wells, will be to assess the outcome of the trial, to decide which technologies are applicable and to which platforms they will apply. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email Affected platforms must have age assurance systems in place by December. Wells must be satisfied that the platforms – expected to include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat – are taking reasonable steps to stop under 16s accessing their services. In an update on the age assurance trial from ACCS last week, it said the only type of technology trialed so far is facial age estimation tech, which examines a photo or video of a user to try to estimate the age based on their facial features. A total of 1,580 tests have been conducted on 485 students, in years 7 to 12. Aside from this testing, further work has been limited to interviews with dozens of potential vendors, and statements outlining how their age ban enforcement technology could work. The trial will try to confirm those claims through 'a combination of practical testing and a vendor interview'. About half of the interviews have been completed. Technologies deemed sufficiently mature to include in the final report will be tested by another company – the Australian-owned KJR – or through schools testing or mystery-shopper type testing. Mystery-shopper testing is a 'real-world environment, where users will have a variety of equipment, light conditions and access to required resources, be that an ID document or a bank account'. ACCS said there will only be 'enough testing' to confirm claims made by vendors 'and that may be achieved with a relatively modest level of practical experimentation'. The March meeting minutes for the stakeholder advisory board overseeing the trial reported stakeholders had raised concerns about gaps in the testing, particularly around how children may circumvent the age ban systems. A spokesperson for the department said a preliminary report, provided in April but not released publicly, gave the government 'anticipated findings in relation to age verification, age estimation, age inference, successive validation, parental control and parental consent methods'. Sources close to the trial told Guardian Australia they believed it was unlikely the report on the trial would be finalised by the due date – or that if it was, it would have not been adequate to inform government decisionmaking on the best technology to use. One concern raised was that other countries, including New Zealand and the United States, are looking to Australia's trial to guide their own plans. Those who supported the policy wanted it implemented correctly, rather than rushed through with technology that could later present privacy or other issues. The Social Research Centre was commissioned in August, and paid $278,000, to research attitudes to age assurance. This included an online survey of 3,140 adults, and 870 people aged 8 to 17 years. A spokesperson for the department said it was a matter for the minister on when that report, delivered to government in January, would be released. A spokesperson for the Albanese government did not directly respond to questions on the timing of the tech trial report or the Social Research Centre report release. 'The government looks forward to receiving the age assurance report and progressing our reforms to protect children from social media harms,' the spokesperson said.
