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Readers respond to an article by Aleks Krotoski about dictators and tech billionaires wanting to solve the problem' of ageingLike Vladimir Putin, Joseph Stalin was interested in immortality (To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed': how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever, 28 September). In 1939 he read Prolonging Life, a pamphlet promising a lifespan of 150 years, by Aleksandr Bogomolets, a haematologist famous for his rapid-healing serums and blood transfusion methods.Bogomolets promised to prolong life with cytotoxic proteins, herbs and transfusions of young blood. Stalin made him a Hero of Socialist Labour and gave him generous research funding, but was dismayed when he died aged 64 in 1946 (this was hardly Bogomolets's fault - as a boy in Tsarist times, he visited his mother, a revolutionary serving a sentence of hard labour in a Siberian prison, and caught tuberculosis).

From GPs using the technology to record consultations to AI detectives' finding brain lesions on scans, experts say it's only the beginning

Despite platform's limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggestedTikTok has directed children's accounts to pornographic content within a small number of clicks, according to a report by a campaign group.Global Witness set up fake accounts using a 13-year-old's birth date and turned on the video app's restricted mode", which limits exposure to sexually suggestive" content. Continue reading...

Investigative journalist Emily Baker-White on the deal to transfer TikTok's US operations to Trump alliesLast week, Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a proposed deal to keep TikTok operating in the US. The $14bn deal, if finalised, would see the transfer of TikTok's US operation from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to a consortium which includes the American billionaires Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, and Rupert Murdoch, as well as two investment firms with known ties to the Trump administration.It's owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans," Trump said while signing the order. This is going to be American-operated all the way." His administration claimed the deal would meet the requirements of a security law that required ByteDance to sell its American operation or face a ban in the US, after years of concern about data security and the risks of Chinese influence. Continue reading...

Lawsuit alleges the design of the vehicle's door handles is at fault for Krysta Tsukahara's deathTesla is being sued by the parents of a teenager killed in a crash involving one of its Cybertruck pickups last fall. The incident involved four passengers who were in the vehicle when it hit a tree and caught on fire in a quiet Bay Area town in California, according to court documents.Only one of the crash victims survived. Continue reading...

Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptionsElon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed free speech absolutist", has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company's woke bias" and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.Musk, the richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $500bn, has repeatedly encouraged his 227 million followers on X, the platform he controls, to cancel their Netflix subscriptions. In the past three days alone, he has posted or reposted calls to cancel Netflix for its content at least 26 times. Continue reading...

Some believe AI can spark their child's imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativityJosh was at the end of his rope when he turned to ChatGPT for help with a parenting quandary. The 40-year-old father of two had been listening to his super loquacious" four-year-old talk about Thomas the Tank Engine for 45 minutes, and he was feeling overwhelmed.He was not done telling the story that he wanted to tell, and I needed to do my chores, so I let him have the phone," recalled Josh, who lives in north-west Ohio. I thought he would finish the story and the phone would turn off." Continue reading...

Tesla owner's wealth temporarily crosses half-trillion-dollar mark before retreating to $499bn

Jurgen Matthaus has for years been investigating the killer - and is confident he has finally solved the mysteryIt is one of the most chilling images of the Holocaust: a bespectacled Nazi soldier trains a pistol at the head of a resigned man kneeling in a suit before a pit full of corpses. German troops encircle the scene.The picture taken in today's Ukraine was long known, mistakenly, as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa, and was for decades shrouded in mystery. Continue reading...

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?The first and second Trump administrations have provoked markedly different critical reactions. The shock of 2016 and its aftermath saw a wave of liberal anxiety about the fate of objective knowledge, not only in the US but also in Britain, where the Brexit referendum that year had been won by acampaign that misrepresented key facts and figures. A rich lexicon soon arose to describe this epistemic breakdown. Oxford Dictionaries declared post-truth" their 2016 word of the year; Merriam-Webster's was surreal". The scourge of fake news", pumped out by online bots and Russian troll farms, suggested that the authority of professional journalism had been fatally damaged by the rise of social media. Andwhen presidential counsellor Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase alternative facts" a few days after Trump's inauguration in early 2017, the mendacity ofthe incoming administration appeared to be all butofficial.The truth panic had the unwelcome side-effect ofemboldening those it sought to oppose. Fake" was one of Trump's favourite slap-downs, especially to news outlets that reported unwelcome facts about him and his associates. A booming Maga media further amplified the president's lies and denials. Thetools of liberal expertise appeared powerless to hold such brazen duplicity to account. A touchstone of the moment was the German-born writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt, who observed in her 1951book TheOrigins of Totalitarianism that the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or thededicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction ... nolongerexists". Continue reading...

Prominent US Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organization removed over a thousand pages of researchThe Anti-Defamation League, one of the most prominent Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organizations in the US, removed over a thousand pages of extremism research from its site on Tuesday night following online backlash from rightwing influencers and Elon Musk.The ADL's now-deleted glossary of extremism" contained over a thousand entries that gave background information on groups and ideologies connected to racist, antisemitic and otherwise hateful incidents. Its pages on neo-Nazi groups, militias and antisemitic conspiracies now redirect to the landing page for its extremism research. Continue reading...

New access order by Home Office would seek access to the tech company's encrypted cloud backupsThe UK government has renewed its confrontation with Apple over access to customer data by demanding a backdoor into the tech company's cloud storage service - targeting British users only.The Home Office had previously sought access to data on Apple's advanced data protection (ADP) service uploaded by any user around the world, triggering a clash with the White House. Continue reading...

For 48 hours Afghanistan had been cut off from mobile and internet services in a Taliban-imposed shutdownJust before nightfall on Wednesday, the near-deserted streets of Afghanistan's capital suddenly filled with people - mobile phones everywhere had pinged back to life.With phones pressed to their ears or tightly gripped in their hands, Afghans poured on to the streets of Kabul to check if others were also online. Continue reading...

In this week's newsletter: The private equity effort to acquire the makers of Fifa and more is the biggest deal in gaming history - financially and morallyWhen Microsoft announced its intention to buy Activision-Blizzard for a touch over $68bn in 2022, it was the biggest deal ever struck in the games industry, and one of the most surprising. But that shock pales into comparison to the reaction to the latest big move in the industry: EA (Electronic Arts), the publisher best known for its juggernaut sports games Madden and EA Sports FC (previously called Fifa), is being taken private in the biggest leveraged buyout in history". It's a deal worth $55bn, by a trio of investors who, on paper, look like a collection of end-of-level bosses.Enter player one: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. The Saudi royal family has been investing its wealth in video games for some years now, and owns its own Savvy Games Group, led by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, perhaps best known for mass-arresting his own citizens and ordering the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Player two: Affinity Partners, an investment company led by Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the current US president. And player three: Silver Lake, just your run-of-the-mill evil private equity firm, which currently owns a large stake in game engine-maker Unity. Game File's Stephen Totilo noticed that Affinity Partners' logo is a mirror image of that used by the evil corporation in the Assassin's Creed series. Truly you couldn't make this stuff up. Continue reading...

Net public backing for scheme has fallen to -14% after prime minister's announcement, according to pollingPublic support for digital IDs has collapsed after Keir Starmer announced plans for their introduction, in what has been described as a symptom of the prime minister's reverse Midas touch".Net support for digital ID cards fell from 35% in the early summer to -14% at the weekend after Starmer's announcement, according to polling by More in Common. Continue reading...

Safety evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.5 raises questions about whether predecessors played along', firm saysIf you are trying to catch out a chatbot take care, because one cutting-edge tool is showing signs it knows what you are up to.Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, has released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested in some way. Continue reading...

James Anderson voices concern over soaring valuations of artificial intelligence firmsA leading British tech investor has described soaring valuations of artificial intelligence companies as disconcerting", amid concerns of an AI stock market bubble.James Anderson was an early backer of Tesla, Amazon and China's Tencent and Alibaba, generating vast returns for Baillie Gifford's flagship fund. Now at the Italian investment company Lingotto, Anderson said he had not seen signs of an investment bubble until recently, when the ChatGPT developer, OpenAI, and its rival Anthropic announced hefty valuation increases. Continue reading...

The birth of AI actor' Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

US actors' union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created using stolen performances'The controversy around the AI actor" Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors' union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood's creators were using stolen performances".Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI talent studio" Xicoia unveiled its creation at the Zurich film festival, prompting an immediate backlash from actors including Melissa Barrera, Mara Wilson and Ralph Ineson. Sag-Aftra said it believed creativity was, and should remain, human-centred. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics." Continue reading...

Ek founded Stockholm-based music streaming company nearly two decades ago and will stay on as executive chairSpotify said Tuesday that founder Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO to become the executive chair.The Stockholm-based streaming giant said Ek will be replaced by two lieutenants who will become co-CEOs: chief product and technology officer Gustav Soderstrom and chief business officer Alex Norstrom. The pair, who are also currently co-presidents, will transition into their new jobs on 1 January. Continue reading...

Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump's tariffs, tech cashes inHello, and welcome to TechScape. I spent the weekend wondering about the insistent feeling in the United States that few but the ultra-rich, even businesses, are making enough money to afford the basics of a comfortable life.The New York Times published a story recently about Broadway's rising costs that featured the grim stat: None of the musicals that opened last season have made a profit." The shows' failure to recoup their investments comes even as Broadway tickets are more expensive than ever before. So who is making any money?The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | EditorialWhy I gave the world wide web away for freeZuckerberg hailed AI superintelligence'. Then his smart glasses failed on stageMadeline Horwath on AI chatbots and cognitive decline - cartoon Continue reading...

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It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu's sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope - literallyRemember when Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat and Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight? Neither of those brawls took place for various reasons. Not least, I suspect, because Musk is just self-aware enough to know that he would not emerge with his dignity, or his spine, intact. However, if the richest man in the world is still casting around for a way to publicly demonstrate his virility, I think I've hit on the perfect way: sperm racing.This isn't some below-the-belt insult. Sperm racing is an emerging thing" among tech types now. A teenage entrepreneur called Eric Zhu came up with the idea, and went viral with his first sperm race in April. That initial race was rudimentary: college students gave sperm samples to be analysed and the results were turned into an animated race that visualised the fastest offerings. Continue reading...

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?Last month, when OpenAI released its long-awaited chatbot GPT-5, it briefly removed access to a previous chatbot, GPT-4o. Despite the upgrade, users flocked to social media to express confusion, outrage and depression. A viral Reddit user said of GPT-4o: I lost my only friend overnight."AI is not like past technologies, and its humanlike character is already shaping our mental health. Millions now regularly confide in AI companions", and there are more and more extreme cases of psychosis" and self-harm following heavy use. This year, 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide after months of chatbot interaction. His parents recently filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, and the company has said it is improving its safeguards.Jacy Reese Anthis is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and co-founder of the Sentience Institute Continue reading...

A bunch of code is being pushed as the next Scarlett Johansson, a creation that is already causing pushback from real human actors

What does Europe's biggest porn conference reveal about the future of the porn industry? Amelia Gentleman reportsThe Xbiz Adult Industry Conference is Europe's largest porn industry gathering. About a thousand content creators travelled to Amsterdam for the event earlier this month. The Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman was there and describes to Helen Pidd the upbeat atmosphere in the venue, especially when compared with the same event a decade earlier, and explains the role that OnlyFans has played in transforming the industry. The pair discuss the autonomy the site is said to give to the creators, as well as the potential for them to be pushed into making more extreme content.Finally, Gentleman visits a conference in Prague centred on AI girlfriends' and discusses how this new wing of the industry is marketing itself and how creators feel about it all. Continue reading...

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world - and exposed the fragility of 21st-century lifeFor a while, Sam Vea had been smelling sulphur on the air - only mildly infernal, like a distant sniff of hell, but sulphur nonetheless. Still, on the Saturday evening when the explosion happened, he sat up in fright. It sounded so near he thought some cataclysm had occurred right there, in his neighbourhood. The windows trembled. The curtains fell off. Vea peeked out of his house but saw nothing destroyed or on fire, so he looked at his wife and said: This has to be the volcano."Vea and his wife live in Tofoa, which, if you squint and picture Tonga's main island of Tongatapu as a long, medieval shoe, lies just below the instep, on a gentle rise of earth. They'd just returned home after dropping their daughters at a birthday party, but now Vea dashed to his van to go and collect them. On the way back, the road filled with cars hurrying away from the sea, and tiny pebbles fell from the sky. Not that long before, curious to see what a big volcanic eruption looked like, Vea had watched Dante's Peak on Netflix. In the movie, he remembered now, a white-hot rock had punched through the roof of a truck and killed Pierce Brosnan's partner, so he pulled over to wait out the traffic. The skies grew mottled with dust and ash. Drivers got out, took off their shirts and wiped their windshields down so they could see the road ahead. When they reached home, after two and a half hours, Vea sent his children to hide under the bed. Continue reading...

San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn't issued, as our citation books don't have a box for robot"'If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week.During a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light. A post by the San Bruno police department on Saturday shows an officer looking into a Waymo - the leading autonomous ride-hailing vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area - after stopping the signature white car. Continue reading...

Platform suspended the US president's YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riotYouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m to settle a suit brought by Donald Trump in 2021 that alleged the platform wrongly suspended his channel after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The Google subsidiary is the latest in a long string of tech companies to make a multimillion-dollar payout to the president over past decisions about his accounts.Trump had filed the suit against YouTube and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging that the platform had accumulated an unprecedented concentration of power, market share, and ability to dictate our nation's public discourse". YouTube said it suspended Trump's channel because it had violated the website's policies against inciting violence. Because of the settlement, the case is now dismissed. Google did not immediately return a request for comment. Continue reading...

Revenues down more than 500m after company cut more than a quarter of UK workforceProfits at Dyson nearly halved during a difficult" year in which the home appliances business, founded by the billionaire Sir James Dyson, cut more than a quarter of its UK workforce.Dyson, which has been based in Singapore since 2019 in a move to future proof" the company, said it had sold 20m products during the year, more than ever before. Continue reading...

The games master has accrued millions of fans and sold out Madison Square Garden with his shows where he plays D&D live with guests. He's still bewildered' by the successIf anyone were to tell me that getting a job as a full-time cast member on a sketch YouTube channel would lead to playing Dungeons & Dragons at Madison Square Garden, then that person is either a time traveller or the biggest liar on the planet," says Brennan Lee Mulligan.The comedian, professional games master and host of the popular streaming show Dimension 20 is speaking ahead of his first trip to Australia, where he will be touring a live game of Dungeons & Dragons at huge venues around the country, including the International Convention & Exhibition Centre in Sydney and Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne. Titled Endless Dungeon, the show will see the LA-based performer teaming up with local comedians including Tom Cardy, Demi Lardner and Jordan Raskopoulos to create an improvised game of D&D. Continue reading...

Policing minister says government will put some parameters' around its deployment in EnglandLabour plans to consult on the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology before expanding it across England, the new policing minister has told the party's annual conference.Sarah Jones, a Home Office minister, said the government would put some parameters" over when and where it could be used in future. Continue reading...

From shopkeeping sims to daring dating, here are the best games to snuggle up with as the weather turnsIt is traditional for any feature about cosy entertainment at this time of year to mention the nights drawing in, roaring open fires and the desire to curl up in an armchair with something nonthreatening. Well, as familiarity is an important element of cosiness, I'm not going to divert from convention. Here then, are 10 new games you'll be able to settle into the sofa with as the evenings darken and the heating goes on ... Continue reading...

Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the futureIn The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as blindly resisting machinery", wrote Thompson in his classic history. They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives.A distinction worth bearing in mind as Britain rolls out the red carpet for US big tech, thereby outsourcing a modern industrial revolution still in its infancy. Photographers, coders and writers, for example, would sympathise with the powerlessness felt by working people who saw customary protections swept away in a search for enhanced productivity and profit. Unlicensed use of their creative labour to train generative AI has delivered vast revenues to Silicon Valley while rendering their livelihoods increasingly precarious. Continue reading...

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation - and here's why it's still worth fighting forI was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.I relentlessly petitioned bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea a little eccentric" but eventually gave in and let me work on it. I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies: the internet and hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding links". Continue reading...

When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability ...Imagine you're the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could want at your disposal: power, influence, money. But, the problem is, your time at the top is fleeting. I'm not talking about the prospect of a coup or a revolution, or even a democratic election: I'm talking about the thing even more certain in life than taxes. I'm talking about death.In early September, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about strategies to stay young. With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality," Putin said via an interpreter to Xi. There's a chance," he continued, of also living to 150 [years old]." But is this even possible, and what would it mean for the world if the people with power were able to live for ever? Continue reading...

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment

The Meta CEO fumbled a demo of his AI Ray-Bans, giving us hope that the robots might be too dumb to take overAs humanity inches closer to an AI apocalypse, a sliver of hope remains: the robots might not work.Such was the case last week, as Mark Zuckerberg attempted to demonstrate his company's new AI-enabled smart glasses. I don't know what to tell you guys," Zuckerberg told a crowd of Meta enthusiasts as he tried, and failed, for roughly the fourth time to hold a video call with his colleague via the glasses. Continue reading...

Criminals calling themselves Radiant say they will post additional private data online unless they are paidHackers with pictures and the private information of thousands of nursery children have threatened to publish more material online unless they are paid.Criminals calling themselves Radiant hacked the UK-based Kido nursery chain and posted profiles of 10 children online on Thursday. Their website on the dark web has posted a data leakage roadmap" that sets out how the next steps for us will be to release 30 more profiles of each child and 100 employees' private data". Continue reading...

Say goodbye to extortionate roaming fees - new companies like Airalo, Holafly and Saily offer cheap, easy coverage for your next international tripOn a week-long trip to Paris last year, I racked up nearly $100 in data charges on my iPhone, with taxes and fees. Ditto for a separate, eight-day trip to Spain, which was even more pricey. And, in what I now jokingly call an act of piracy, my three-week trip to seven countries - including a seven-day cruise - cost me over $300 for data.I (eventually) learned my lesson, and a little research yielded a simple solution that can make life a lot easier: Switching to a local carrier for your travels. This used to entail a visit to an airport kiosk or a mobile store to get a fingernail-sized plastic SIM chip installed in your phone, but a new feature called an eSIM lets you handle it all from your phone before you even leave. My eSim for Paris cost $11 for 5GB of data, plenty for checking emails, using Google Maps, and browsing social media (although I was careful not to upload photos until I had wifi access). In Spain, I spent $10 for 5GB. Continue reading...

They study for hours a day. The competitions have zero prize money. So what keeps quiz champions going for glory - and how do they win?

Subscription service is Meta's response to regulatory warnings over crunching users' data to serve targeted adsFacebook and Instagram users in the UK are to be offered advert-free versions of the social networks for up to 3.99 a month.Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has responded to regulatory warnings about personalised adverts, in which users' data is crunched to produce targeted ads, by launching an ad-free subscription service. Continue reading...

Watchdog applauds strong message' after federal court orders Gold Coast man Anthony Rotondo to pay for posting deepfake images to a now-defunct website

From hallway hooks to garden fortresses, here's where to keep your bike so it's safe, dry and out of the way 10 safety essentials cyclists won't leave home withoutI recently moved house and have a problem many cyclists face: where does the bike go? Research shows that about 5.5 million people in the UK would cycle more if they had space to store a bike at home; only 23% of people living in flats - and 58% who live in detached houses - have an accessible place for one.However, there are many bike storage solutions, from basic floor anchors for a tiny outdoor space to fancy high-security sheds, and even secure parking provided by local authorities. One cycle storage entrepreneur won 100,000 on Dragons' Den for his SpaceRail. Here are some of the best options I've come across, for inside the home, and out. Continue reading...

I tried my hand at this year's French arthouse gaming hit, but after an intense initial infatuation, the relationship hit the rocksWe don't just observe art; we have a relationship with it. Whether it's music, paintings or movies, the artist does their bit - but it's the involvement of our own psyche that completes the circle. This is even more true for games, because we don't sit for 100 hours in front of the Mona Lisa.Relationships with art change over time. I appreciated animation more when I was a younger man. I appreciate jazz much more today. I find the Mona Lisa alluring or boring depending on what mood I am in. Continue reading...

MGX, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will take 15% stake, with social media firm valued at $14bn

Agreement separates app from Chinese owner ByteDance and allows US investors to take 80% stakeDonald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday outlining the terms of a deal to transfer TikTok to a US owner.Trump said he and China's president Xi Jinping had come to an agreement to allow TikTok to continue operating in the US, separating the social media platform from its Chinese owner ByteDance. Trump said the deal complies with a law that would have forced the shutdown of the app for American users had it not been divested and sold to a US owner. Continue reading...

Brit card' already facing opposition from privacy campaigners as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigrationAll working adults will need digital ID cards under plans to be announced by Keir Starmer, in a move that will spark a battle with civil liberties campaigners.The prime minister will set out the measures on Friday at a conference on how progressive politicians can tackle the problems facing the UK, including addressing voter concerns around immigration. Continue reading...

Firm, which has 18 sites around London and more in US, India and China, has received ransom demand, say reportsThe names, pictures and addresses of about 8,000 children have reportedly been stolen from the Kido nursery chain by a gang of cybercriminals.The criminals have demanded a ransom from the company - which has 18 sites around London, with more in the US, India and China - according to the BBC. Continue reading...