What happened
Ofcom has claimed that TikTok and YouTube are refusing to make their platforms more secure for children. The regulator said it had a “wealth of evidence” that the platforms were “still not safe enough” and if they failed to change they could “expect enforcement action”. Snap, Meta and Roblox are adopting new safety measures after Ofcom issued tech firms with a public call for action in March. But the regulator said none of the companies with a minimum age of 13 were enforcing age restrictions effectively.

Who said what
The criticism shows a shift towards seeing online harms as “a product problem”, social media consultant and analyst Matt Navarra told the BBC. The debate has moved on from whether a platform removes “harmful content quickly enough” to “why did the platform show it to a child in the first place?”

YouTube said it worked with child safety experts to provide “industry-leading, age-appropriate” videos for children. TikTok said it was “very disappointing” that Ofcom had failed to acknowledge its own safety features.

What next?
The government is consulting on whether to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s.

What happened
Southampton is facing a full investigation by the FA for spying on other teams’ training sessions. The club could also be subject to legal action from their sponsors and players after being disqualified from Saturday’s Championship play-off final over the scandal. Southampton’s appeal against the punishment, on the grounds that it was “disproportionate”, was dismissed on Wednesday evening.

Who said what
Leading sports lawyers “believe the Saints could now face a litany of claims from sponsors, who could seek to terminate their partnerships with the club”, City A.M. said. A number of the playing squad have taken legal advice after being “denied the opportunity to receive the bonuses and pay increases that would have come with promotion to the Premier League”, said The Times.

The Championship play-off final will now go ahead at Wembley on Saturday between Hull City and Middlesbrough – who the Saints had beaten at the semi-final stage. The fixture has been “dubbed the most lucrative game in world football, with promotion to the top flight worth a minimum of £200 million in broadcast revenue and parachute payments”, said the BBC.

What next?
Hull are also unhappy that they will have to face different opponents at short notice, but club owner Acun Ilicali told Sky Sports there was no other option “in order to finish this mess”.

Many people across Europe were enraptured when the potential bones of Count d’Artagnan – the inspiration for the fourth musketeer in  Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel “The Three Musketeers” – were unearthed in the Netherlands in March. But genetic testing to prove that the bones belong to d’Artagnan has run into several problems that could make it difficult to get a definitive answer.

The completed skeleton was found under the chapel floor of the St Peter and Paul’s Church in the Dutch village of Wolder. The church was “for centuries rumoured to be the final resting place” of the fourth musketeer, said The New York Times. The count, who was an aide to France’s Louis XIV, died in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673.

The skeleton does “match history”, said National Geographic. D’Artagnan was killed when a “musket ball struck him in the throat” and the grave “contained fragments of a musket ball near the skeleton’s chest”. But “genetic verification to prove whether the skeleton is that of d’Artagnan has run into bureaucratic troubles”. The “first samples collected from the skeleton were too degraded to be used” and the municipality of Maastricht, where the church is located, alleges that the “initial excavations were improper”.

Genetic testing could be difficult, too. D’Artagnan has living descendants, but “French nobility often had extramarital affairs”, so it’s “at least possible that they are not biologically related to the musketeer”, said The New York Times.

Even with all the obstacles, most scientists believe there’s a “decent chance” that it is d’Artagnan, said news site Ars Technica. “I have been researching d’Artagnan’s grave for 28 years,” Wim Dijkman, an archaeologist on the excavation, told the BBC. “This could be the highlight of my career.”