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Hackers, no longer content with phishing emails, are now sending text messages to entice people to click on fake links You’ve heard of ransomware? Now you’ve got to worry about “smishing”. Smishing is a relatively new form of cyberattack that’s threatening millions of consumers and small businesses around the world. Smishing is a form of …

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The film-maker and life peer has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people since 2012. Now, with her Children’s Code, people – and big tech companies – are starting to listen When she first began talking to her peers in the House of Lords about the rights of children on the internet, Baroness …

Beeban Kidron v Silicon Valley: one woman’s fight to protect children online Read More »

The Model 3 left the road near a residential intersection, collided with a tree and burst into flames, killing a man and a woman Federal authorities will investigate a fiery car crash which killed two people in a Tesla in Florida last week. Related: Tesla’s Autopilot faces US investigation after crashes with emergency vehicles Continue …

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The company’s vice-president of global affairs said the paper had not presented the whole picture on the ‘difficult issues’ Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs, has slammed the Wall Street Journal for reporting that the social media giant was aware of negative impacts of some of its products. Related: Teenage girls, body image and …

Facebook slams Wall Street Journal reports as ‘deliberate mischaracterisations’ Read More »

Kerim Sabuncuoğlu – just one winner in this year’s Ocean photography awards – tells the story behind his picture of a moray eel that also shows the wider perils of ‘ghost fishing’ In July, off the Turkish port city of Bodrum, Kerim Sabuncuoğlu stepped from the edge of a boat into the azure Aegean Sea …

Deep impact: the underwater photographers bringing the ocean’s silent struggle to life Read More »

Apple has just unveiled the latest all-singing, all-dancing iteration of its handset, but perhaps you should resist the hype On Tuesday, Apple released its latest phone – the iPhone 13. Naturally, it was presented with the customary breathless excitement. It has a smaller notch (eh?), a redesigned camera, Apple’s latest A15 “bionic” chipset and a …

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The company’s own research reveals that Instagram harms teens, that it can’t control anti-vax misinformation, and that there is a secret double standard for VIPs. In short, the problem with Facebook is Facebook For years, Facebook has faced torrents of criticism from human rights groups and academic researchers, who raised alarms about the ways that …

Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teen girls and, well, everyone Read More »

The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research ‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’ Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used the photo-sharing app to follow fitness influencers, but what began as …

Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’ Read More »

Exclusive: privacy concerns ‘must not delay use of neuralMatch algorithm to protect victims of abuse’ Child protection experts from across the world have called on Apple to implement new scanning technologies urgently to detect images of child abuse. In August, Apple announced plans to use a tool called neuralMatch to scan photos being uploaded to …

Child abuse: Apple urged to roll out image-scanning tool swiftly Read More »

Inventor who brought pocket calculators and the earliest accessible computers into British homes Sir Clive Sinclair, who has died aged 81 from cancer, was the inventor who brought pocket calculators and the earliest cheap and accessible miniature computers into British homes in the 1980s. For a few years he seemed to be the epitome of …

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