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The Infocomm Media Development Authority and National University Hospital unite to innovate public healthcare with an Open Innovation Platform, leveraging AI solutions.

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If Melissa Kwek is offered a leadership role in an unfamiliar region, she will now look beyond her inner circle for advice, and turn to a trusted network of peers in Singapore. She met these fellow professionals as part of the inaugural cohort of the Singapore Leaders Network Tech (SGLN TECH) programme. This initiative, open to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents, is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).

Until Dawn 2 has received an M18 rating in Singapore for strong violence and coarse language, with the classification revealing details about the horror sequel's graphic content. The rating was issued by Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), ahead of the game's January 28, 2027, release on PS5. According to the classification, Until Dawn 2 features particularly brutal death sequences, including dismemberment, decapitation and bisection. The game also contains heavy blood splatter, mutilated bodies and other explicit depictions of violence. One cutscene shows a character having a lung forcibly removed, while other sequences involve characters being impaled or having their faces and bodies torn apart by creatures.

Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) published its first report card on the five big app stores on **Saturday, 24 October 2026**. The verdict is a pass with plenty of red ink in the margins: IMDA found **65 apps** containing or facilitating harmful content that violated the stores’ own policies; the stores removed or re-rated them after IMDA flagged them. The app store is how almost everything reaches your phone, whether that’s a game for your younger cousin or the tablet you hand your kid at dinner. This report is the first official look at how well those stores keep harmful content and underage users out, and it names names. The cover of IMDA’s Online Safety Assessment Report 2026 ## Who Got Graded, and How The Online Safety Assessment Report covers the **Apple App Store** , **Google Play Store** , **Huawei AppGallery** , **Microsoft Store** and **Samsung Galaxy Store**. These are the five services designated under Singapore’s Code of Practice for Online Safety for App Distribution Services, which took effect in March 2025. Microsoft’s entry spans five storefronts, including the Xbox console storefront and the PC Games Store, so your gaming rig is in scope as well. The report looks at **1 April to 31 December 2025**. IMDA combined each store’s annual safety report with its own mystery shopper testing (posing as ordinary users), direct testing and operational data. It then judged whether each safety measure existed, covered enough ground and worked in practice. According to IMDA, Singapore is one of the first countries in the world to regulate app stores for online safety. The headline finding is that all five stores have baseline safety measures in place, with no systemic breaches of the Code. That sounds reassuring, and on age checks it mostly holds up. The trouble starts when you look at what gets through the door. ## 65 Apps Violated Store Policies IMDA’s mystery shoppers tested **over 7,000 apps** across the five stores. They found 65 apps containing or facilitating harmful content that violated the stores’ _own_ policies. They also found **24 apps** with 18+ content that carried a lower age rating, spread across the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Huawei AppGallery. The most common problems were sexual content, violent content, and content facilitating vice and organised crime. Every one of those apps was removed or re-rated, but only after IMDA reported them. Sixty-five out of 7,000 works out to under 1%, and IMDA’s factsheet points out the number is small next to the sheer size of these stores. Fair enough, but these are the apps a regulator caught on a sample run. The mis-rated ones bother us more. An age rating is the label a parent glances at for two seconds before tapping “Get”, so a wrong one undermines the whole point of having ratings. ## The 18+ Gate Had Gaps The good news first: IMDA found that age assurance, the checks stores use to work out how old you are, was present and well implemented on all five stores. Its testing found these checks generally couldn’t be easily dodged. The exception was Huawei AppGallery, where a small percentage of users could get around the check under specific circumstances on certain versions. IMDA put this down to technical limitations, and Huawei has committed to working with the regulator to monitor and fix it. The report notes that no age check is completely foolproof. Once a store knows a user is under 18, children were largely blocked from downloading 18+ apps by default. IMDA’s testing did turn up **limited instances on Huawei AppGallery and Microsoft Store** where those restrictions were missing, or where loopholes let children switch them off. Most of these have since been fixed. That switch-off loophole is the detail parents should sit up for. A restriction a 12-year-old can toggle off in settings is a suggestion, not a safeguard. ## Report an App, Hear Nothing Every store offers ways to report a dodgy app, through in-store flagging, web forms, hotlines or chat. But IMDA found the stores were inconsistent about telling users what happened next, and some didn’t tell them at all. **Google Play Store** and **Samsung Galaxy Store** failed to notify users who had downloaded an app within six months of its removal. In practice, you could still have a banned app on your phone and never know it was pulled. All five stores reported zero or near-zero user reports about harmful content. IMDA wants Google, Huawei and Samsung to provide better data showing their reporting systems work in the next annual report. Our read is that near-zero reports point to people not reporting, rather than to no problems existing. If nobody hears back after flagging something, why would they bother next time? ## What You Can Do Today Set your kid up with their own account and the correct birthdate. Default restrictions only kick in once a store knows the user is a child, so letting them borrow your adult account switches off the protection entirely. Treat the age rating as a starting point and check what the app does yourself, especially for anything with chat or “mature” themes. If something feels off, report it. The full report, along with each store’s own safety report, is published on IMDA’s online safety page. It’s worth ten minutes of your time if you’re the family’s unofficial IT department. ## Social Media Is Next Alongside the report, the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) shared results from public engagements with **over 2,000 parents and youth** held from **June to August 2026**. These included focus groups, school dialogues, a survey on the CrowdTaskSG platform, and sessions run by TOUCH Community Services, Fei Yue Community Services, YouthTechSG and Singapore Children’s Society. More than 80% of parents and nearly 70% of youth backed a tiered approach to social media, which means age-appropriate access with safeguards rather than an outright ban. Their worries differed. Screen addiction and overuse topped the list for youth at 71%, while inappropriate content led for parents at 84%. The most popular default safeguards were disabling autoplay (76%), disabling direct messaging (75%) and a daily screen-time limit (75%). The Government says it intends to introduce legislation next year. The lessons start early, too. IMDA piloted an online safety curriculum with over 100 Kindergarten 2 children at E-Bridge pre-school, and it plans to roll it out to close to 3,000 K1 and K2 children across 30 E-Bridge centres from December 2026. Skool4Kidz delivered the curriculum to 800 K2 children across 35 centres in September 2026. All of this builds on the Screen Smart from the Start movement, which Prime Minister Lawrence Wong launched at the National Family Festival on 31 May 2026. ## Take It to Heartbeat@Bedok The report landed on the opening day of IMDA’s **Digital for Life (DfL) Festival** , which President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Patron of the DfL movement, attended with host Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Development and Information. The festival runs across two weekends with close to 130 partners, and entry is free. If you only hit a few booths, make it these three. Ottodot’s _Digital Detectives_ game has parents and kids team up to spot online red flags, which is the exact skill this report shows you can’t fully outsource to an app store. Singtel’s booth has tips for a child’s first smartphone, so it suits anyone whose kid is about to get one. Meta x EYEYAH!’s _Digital Dialogue IRL_ helps you think through your boundaries on social media and tune the safety settings that control what you see. Younger visitors can try Edufrienz 99’s stories about being kind online, or create digital art at Make The Change’s booth. 🗓️ **Date:** Saturday, 31 October and Sunday, 1 November 2026 (the VivoCity weekend, 24 and 25 October, has ended) 📍 **Location:** Heartbeat@Bedok 🎟️ **Admission:** Free 🤝 **Partners:** Close to 130 👨‍👩‍👧 **Picks:** Ottodot’s _Digital Detectives_ , Singtel’s first smartphone tips, Meta x EYEYAH!’s _Digital Dialogue IRL_ Your app store is doing more than it was a year ago, but this audit shows it can’t catch everything, and a little know-how on your end closes the gaps it leaves. The VivoCity weekend is over, but the festival’s second weekend is at Heartbeat@Bedok on 31 October and 1 November, with booth details on the Digital for Life Festival page. The bite-sized parenting guides for first screens, first phones and first social media accounts are on the Digital for Life portal whenever you need them! _**Photos by Danish Lukawski of The DANAMIC Team; additional visuals courtesy of IMDA.**_

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SINGAPORE - Probes into Simba Telecom have escalated with fresh allegations that its unauthorised use of radio frequency bands were intentional, and had been approved by the firm’s senior management. In an Australian Securities Exchange filing on Oct 26, its parent company Tuas said that Simba had been issued a Show Cause Notice from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to explain and debunk the fresh allegations, failing which the telco could face a fine or lose its licence to operate.

SINGAPORE – A local audit of online app stores has found 65 objectionable apps that included themes of murder or gambling, or incorporated tools that generate non-consensual, sexually explicit images. Another 24 apps containing sexually suggestive content, or featured crime and drug use, were not labelled with the appropriate age rating, according to the audit by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).

SINGAPORE – Nudification tools as well as murder- and gambling-themed games that involve payouts were among 65 objectionable apps flagged in Singapore’s first audit of online app stores. Nudification apps use artificial intelligence to digitally strip clothing from photos of individuals, generating non-consensual, sexually explicit images. The audit conducted by the Infocomm Media Development Authority between April 2025 and December 2025 also found that 24 apps were not rated 18+ according to the app stores’ own requirements.

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If you’ve been eyeing smart glasses and wondering whether a pair of specs that talks back is worth a few hundred dollars, this weekend lets you find out for free. The **Digital for Life Festival 2026** opens at **VivoCity Central Court** on **Saturday, 24 October** , and Meta’s booth there offers guided demos of the **new Meta Glasses** with free admission. The festival is organised by the **Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)** and runs across two weekends. After VivoCity, it moves to **Heartbeat@Bedok** on **31 October and 1 November**. According to the organiser’s publicity, Meta’s booth is open across both weekends, so the eastsiders get a turn too. The official festival page lists VivoCity’s hours as **10am to 10pm** , which leaves plenty of room for a post-dinner detour. ## Try Before You Buy Meta’s booth bills the session as _“a first hands-on opportunity in Singapore”_ for the new Meta Glasses. The scope of that claim matters. This isn’t Singapore’s first brush with Meta eyewear: a Ray-Ban Meta pop-up ran outside Mandarin Gallery on Orchard Road from 6 to 17 May 2026, and authorised retailers have offered in-store demos since the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta lines launched here on 20 April 2026. The “first” refers to this newer Meta Glasses model specifically, and that’s Meta’s own framing. Why bother with a demo? Price is the big reason. When we compared the range in September, the standard Meta Glasses were listed at **S$349** and the limited-edition LISA pair at **S$559** on Meta’s Singapore online store (we weighed the two here). A demo won’t replace a week of daily wear. It can still answer the questions a spec sheet can’t, like whether the frames sit comfortably on your nose and whether the voice assistant understands you over mall noise. ## Test the AI, Not Only the Frames Reviewers have been warmer about the hardware than the brains. Local site Can Buy or Not praised the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2’s camera and six-microphone audio, but said Meta AI can hallucinate, lacks meaningful memory and struggles with complex requests. Those complaints concern Meta’s assistant rather than any single frame, so they’re worth testing on the newer model. Our advice: don’t settle for _“What am I looking at?”_ during the guided demo. Ask something layered, like a two-step question about a sign in Chinese, and see whether the answer holds up. That one exchange tells you more than any brochure. ## The Little Light Problem Every pair of Meta glasses has a small LED that glows when the camera records. The Independent noted that Meta made the light brighter, yet found it still easy to miss in public, especially in sunlight. That’s worth seeing with your own eyes, ideally by asking a friend to stand across the booth while you record. Singapore’s Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) has said that recording is covered by existing privacy and criminal laws regardless of the device. A glowing LED, in other words, isn’t consent. ## Digital Dialogue IRL, Explained The booth’s second half is **Digital Dialogue IRL** , a set of mini-games and conversation prompts for parents and young people. The topics are the ones that cause arguments at dinner: managing screen time, choosing what shows up in your feeds, handling cyberbullying, and the quiet misery of social comparison. Meta launched the programme at Temasek Shophouse on 25 June 2026. At that launch, Minister of State Rahayu Mahzam said keeping young people safe online _“cannot be left to any one party alone”_ , and called for government, industry, schools and families to work together. Premlatha D/O Selvaraj, a vice-principal at a Ministry of Education (MOE) secondary school, said the programme gave Secondary One students a safe space to talk about their online lives. There’s context families deserve here. The programme comes from the company that runs Instagram and Facebook, and Meta’s youth-safety record is under scrutiny. The Associated Press has reported on US states suing Meta over alleged addictive design. In Parliament on 10 September 2026, Member of Parliament (MP) Ang Wei Neng asked whether Singapore should seek restrictions similar to those in a US settlement involving Meta, and MDDI replied that it was engaging Meta on age assurance and stronger safeguards. None of that makes the games pointless. Treat them as a conversation starter rather than the final word, because the real value is the chat you have with your teenager on the MRT ride home. ## The Rest of the Festival Meta’s booth is one stop among many. IMDA says this year’s festival has interactive booths for all ages, with a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Expect sessions on generative AI (GenAI), AI agents, deepfakes, prompting and staying safe online. Programmes extend to HarbourFront and Bedok public libraries, handy if the mall gets crowded. The festival belongs to IMDA’s wider Digital for Life movement, which IMDA says had reached more than **870,000 Singaporeans** by 17 July 2026. If you’ve been following Meta’s other recent moves, like its paid Meta One tier, the booth is a useful reality check on what the company is building next. ## Which Weekend to Pick If you’re seriously shopping for smart glasses, go to VivoCity this weekend. You’ll also get a second chance at Heartbeat@Bedok on 31 October and 1 November if you want another look before committing. Families with tweens should head for Digital Dialogue IRL first. 🗓️ **Date:** Saturday, 24 October to Sunday, 25 October 2026 (VivoCity); Saturday, 31 October to Sunday, 1 November 2026 (Heartbeat@Bedok) ⏰ **Time:** 10am to 10pm at VivoCity 📍 **Location:** VivoCity Central Court; Heartbeat@Bedok 💰 **Price:** Free admission 🔗 **Details:** Digital for Life Festival 2026 Smart glasses are easy to judge from a launch video, and much harder to judge once they’re sitting on your face asking for your trust. A free afternoon at the Digital for Life Festival gives you that test without spending a cent, and the family games might spark a conversation you’ve been putting off. Check the Digital for Life Festival page for the full programme before you head down, and pencil in Bedok for 31 October if this weekend slips away!

SINGAPORE – Singtel has been fined $1 million for a massive mobile network outage that affected 720,000 customers over three days in March. This follows an earlier major fine – in December 2025, sector regulator Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) handed the telco a $1 million financial penalty for a fixed voice service outage that affected 500,000 users for more than four hours in October 2024.