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Oversight Board of Meta recommends exception to privacy rules should be removed Facebook and Instagram should tighten privacy rules to protect against the revealing of private residential addresses and images online, known as doxxing, according to the independent body that decides if content should be on the social media platforms. The Oversight Board of Meta, …

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Digital minister Chris Philp says it is too easy for children to access pornography online The government has revived plans to make pornography websites carry out age checks, which would require British users to provide data such as their credit card or passport details to prove they are over 18. Ministers said the forthcoming online …

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Boris Johnson’s new press chief believed to have been trying to stop Chinese firm from being dropped from UK’s 5G network Boris Johnson’s new communications director lobbied a former chief of staff at Downing Street not to ban Chinese technology company Huawei over spying fears, leaked documents suggest. Guto Harri, who was appointed No 10’s …

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Japan’s SoftBank announces that sale of British company faces insurmountable regulatory hurdles Nvidia’s planned $40bn (£29.6bn) acquisition of the Cambridge-based chip designer Arm from Japan’s Softbank has collapsed, the companies said on Tuesday, after regulatory hurdles proved insurmountable. The cash-and-stock deal was announced in 2020 but the US Federal Trade Commission sued to block it …

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A reader bought the three-year card which is digital only but it won’t download I bought a three-year, £70 senior railcard from Trainline, but this has to be stored on my phone as an app, as there is now no paper option. But when I tried to download it on to my iPhone, an error …

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Thiel, a major donor to the Republican party, was seen by critics as part of the reason why Facebook did not censor Trump Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is stepping down from the board of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, after 17 years. Thiel, Facebook’s longest-serving board member and a major donor …

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The subpoena was issued on 16 November after Musk polled his Twitter followers on whether he should sell 10% of his shares Tesla said on Monday it received a subpoena from the US securities regulator related to a settlement that required tweets from its chief executive, Elon Musk, on material information to be vetted. The …

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PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5; SloclapSpectacular gain is preceded by drawn-out pain in this martial arts adventure where fighting prowess is the carrot and ageing is the stick Sifu owes an obvious and honest debt to classic Hong Kong cinema. But if you’re here for a kung fu power fantasy, a word of warning: you …

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New owner the New York Times says the hit game will (initially) remain free, but we look at some back up options if it ends up behind a paywall The New York Times acquisition of Wordle has left devotees of the mega-hit word guessing game fearful that it will – like the newspaper’s crossword and …

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Full bench of the federal court confirms earlier ruling that tech giant collects personal information in Australia Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Facebook has lost a major battle with the Australian regulator over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a court dismissed the social media giant’s claim that it neither conducts …

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