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Global alliance including NCA and FBI says Meta’s decision to encrypt direct messages could harm children An alliance of the world’s most powerful law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Interpol and Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) have condemned Meta’s plans to encrypt direct messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, saying that doing so will weaken …

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Journalist Frank Swain investigates those who want to reverse ageing to live forever in Buying Time. Plus: five of the best relaxing podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here What is it about conspiracies and the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead? One of last year’s finest podcasts, Hoaxed, looked at …

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Drop in company’s gross margins in first-quarter earnings signal price cuts could hurt financials with share prices taking a tumble Tesla narrowly missed Wall Street expectations in the first quarter of 2023 and gross margins dropped significantly in a signal that a series of price cuts could hurt the company’s financials. The company posted a …

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Social media firm will cull 4,000 jobs immediately as part of larger plan to cut 10,000 jobs amid tech industry slump Meta workers are bracing for thousands of additional layoffs as the embattled social media firm continues to cut costs. A new round of layoffs began on Wednesday, according to a report from CNBC that …

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‘MyAI’ service that users can converse and collaborate creatively with had initially only been available to subscribers Snapchat is releasing its GPT-powered AI chatbot to every user for free, the company announced at its annual developer conference, as it tries to chart a distinctive path between the titans of Instagram and TikTok. That means expanding …

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UK regulator asks for views on how move will work in practice, amid concern over tech firm’s cut of in-app purchases Google is to let Android developers bypass in-app payments on its Play app store for the first time, in an effort to head off an investigation from the British competition regulator. But the specifics …

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Deep Silver; PC, PS4/5, Xbox Series X/SHacking at the undead in post-apocalyptic LA is a lot of fun, but the game’s delayed release has made it sluggish and limited Once in a while, the story behind a game’s development is more epic than anything being shown on screen. This is one of those occasions. Work …

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Players have long found a refuge from grief in video games – and a recent wave of games is tackling this difficult theme head-on When James’s father died, he did what any of us would do in the throes of grief: he sought comfort. He went looking for it in the expected places – friends, …

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Streaming giant announces DVD-by-mail service to be wound down at the end of September It’s time to say goodbye to those red envelopes. Netflix announced on Tuesday that it would end 25 years of mailing DVDs of shows and movies to its subscribers. Netflix’s co-chief executive Ted Sarandos said mailing DVDs had “paved the way …

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Cabinet Office secretary, Oliver Dowden, to issue national alert and urge companies to boost cybersecurity Russian hackers organised along the lines of the paramilitary Wagner group are seeking “to disrupt or destroy” parts of the UK’s critical national infrastructure, a cabinet minister will warn at a cyber conference in Belfast on Wednesday. Oliver Dowden, the …

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