October 3, 2025 2:09 am
Alphabet’s Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications. MORE..
Snapchat is going to start charging for storing old photos and videos users keep on the platform. MORE..
Electronic Arts (EA), one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, has agreed a deal to sell the company for $55bn (£41bn). MORE..
Alphabet-owned YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit that US President Donald Trump brought against the company over the suspension of his account following the January 2021 U.S. Capitol riots, a court filing showed on Monday. MORE..
JLR suspended production at its UK factories following the cyber attack on 31 August. The shutdown is expected to last until 1 October, leaving the largest UK carmaker’s suppliers in limbo. MORE..
Meta said on Thursday (Sep 25) it was activating so-called “teen accounts” with added protections for adolescent Facebook and Messenger users worldwide, months after the feature was rolled out in major English-speaking countries. MORE..
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday (Sep 25) declaring that his plan to sell Chinese-owned TikTok’s US operations to the US and global investors will address the national security requirements in a 2024 law. MORE..
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promoted his government’s world-first teen social media ban at an event in New York, warning the challenges posed by social media for children was “constantly evolving”. MORE..
Meta Platforms’ Instagram has grown to 3 billion Monthly Active Users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, marking another milestone for one of the most popular social media apps in the world. MORE..
Apple, Google and Microsoft have been asked by EU tech regulators about the measures they are taking to prevent their platforms being used for financial scams, underscoring Europe’s concern about the cost of online fraud. MORE..
A new United Nations report, “Gender Snapshot 2025”, has highlighted that women’s jobs are disproportionately at risk from artificial intelligence, with nearly 28% of women’s roles globally threatened, compared to 21% of men’s jobs. MORE..
China’s latest and most capable aircraft carrier has used its new electromagnetic catapult to successfully launch three types of aircraft, according to Chinese state media, which released footage of the launches for the first time to mark the technological breakthrough. MORE..
Nasa has said it hopes to send astronauts on a ten-day trip around the Moon as soon as February. MORE..
Britain’s biggest car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is extending the closure of its factories until October 1 following a cyber attack in early September which has left its operations paralysed, and smaller suppliers struggling. MORE..
TikTok’s algorithm - the technology that determines what users see in their feed - will be copied and retrained using US user data as part of a deal to secure the app’s future in the country. MORE..
China’s top internet regulator announced on Monday a sweeping two-month crackdown on social media, vowing to combat content containing “malicious incitement of conflict” and “negative outlooks on life such as world-weariness”. MORE..
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that media mogul Lachlan Murdoch and business leaders Larry Ellison and Michael Dell would be involved as U.S. investors in a proposed deal to keep TikTok operating in the United States. MORE..
Some of Europe’s biggest airports, including the region’s busiest Heathrow, raced on Sunday to restore normal operations to automatic check-in systems after disruption caused by hackers a day earlier. MORE..
Tesla has been approved to start testing autonomous robotaxi vehicles with a safety monitor in Arizona, the state transportation department said in an email to Reuters on Friday. MORE..
Albania’s new AI-generated minister has addressed parliament for the first time, insisting it’s “not here to replace people, but to help them”. MORE..
President Donald Trump, who recently accused Xi Jinping of working to “conspire” against the United States, hopes to finalise the fate of video-sharing app TikTok and make progress on trade talks in a phone call with the Chinese leader on Friday (Sep 19). MORE..
Meta Platforms on Wednesday launched its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, seeking to extend the momentum of its Ray-Ban line, one of the early consumer hits of the artificial intelligence era. MORE..
Crypto firms in Britain could be exempted from rules that ensure financial services companies act with integrity and in the interests of customers, under new proposals outlined by the Financial Conduct Authority on Wednesday. MORE..
YouTube is introducing a slew of AI-powered tools aimed at lightening creators’ workloads. MORE..
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. and China have a deal that would keep TikTok operating in the United States, transferring its U.S. assets to U.S. owners from China’s ByteDance, potentially resolving a saga that has lingered for nearly a year. MORE..