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• Social media company takes down 200 accounts • ‘Hallmarks of a well-resourced and persistent operation’ Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. …

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Documents appear to show how Russian intelligence worked to install their preferred candidate as president Papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House In January 2016, America was coming to terms with what had previously seemed incredible. Barring an unforeseen event, Donald J Trump was on course to become the Republican …

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Researchers say web domains masquerading as activist, health and media groups are used by governments to hack targets An Israeli company that sells spyware to governments is linked to fake Black Lives Matter and Amnesty International websites that are used to hack targets, according to a new report. Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the …

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My father, Aladdin Bahrani, who has died aged 91, spent many years working as a senior engineer in his birthplace, Iraq, before becoming professor of manufacturing engineering at Queen’s University in Belfast, where he had trained just after the second world war. The eldest of 10 children, he was born in Baghdad, to Mohammed Saleem …

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Nintendo Switch; NintendoThis remastered game from the Wii-era remains a wildly imaginative and magical experience created by Nintendo’s brainiest puzzle architects In 2011, when Nintendo reforged The Legend of Zelda around the waggling of a Wii remote in Skyward Sword, there was a sense that the developer had lost sight of the wood for the …

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China’s video game market is the world’s biggest. International developers want in on it – but its rules on what is acceptable are growing increasingly harsh. Is it worth the compromise? In the years after it was founded in 1999, the Swedish video game company Paradox Interactive quietly built a reputation for developing some of …

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Comfortable and long lasting with good case and brilliant audio but ultimately disposable Sony’s latest top-of-the-range noise-cancelling earbuds are a cut above the previous generation and the competition. Costing £250 ($279.99/A$449.99), the WF-1000XM4 are premium true wireless earbuds that go toe to toe with the likes of the Apple AirPods Pro, Jabra Elite 85t and …

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Up for discussion in the first Guardian tech newsletter: can artificial intelligence enhance rather than replace us … internet age verification … plus Google’s €500m French fine Hello and welcome to the debut issue of TechScape, the Guardian’s newsletter on all things tech, and sometimes things not-tech if they’re interesting enough. I can’t tell you …

Welcome to TechScape: will AI make centaurs of us all? Read More »

Legal fight hopes to override previous ruling that drivers are not employees New Zealand Uber drivers are taking the global ride-share company to court, in the hopes of being legally determined as employees instead of contractors. It is the latest in a string of cases taken against the company and other ride-share apps, and the …

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Social news aggregator has had to grapple with growing calls to deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories on platform The head of social news aggregator Reddit has argued its own community and administrators are the best moderator against misinformation, as the company plans to open an office in Australia for the first time. In the …

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