China is using fake LinkedIn profiles to gather information on German officials and politicians, the German intelligence agency (BfV) has said.
The agency alleges that Chinese intelligence used the networking site to target at least 10,…
Apple is close to buying the music recognition app Shazam for about $400m (£300m), media reports say.
Shazam, a UK company founded in 1999, allows people to use their smartphone or computer to identify and buy music through a snippet of…
Hidden software that can record every letter typed on a computer keyboard has been discovered pre-installed on hundreds of HP laptop models.
Security researcher Michael Myng found the keylogging code in software drivers preinstalled on …
Online game service Steam has stopped accepting payments made with the Bitcoin virtual currency.
In a statement, development studio Valve, which runs Steam, said "high fees and volatility" had driven it to stop accepting them.
It sai…
San Francisco officials have voted to restrict where delivery robots can go in the city, in a blow for the burgeoning industry.
Start-ups will have to get permits to use such bots, which will be restricted to less crowded urban areas.
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Experts say it is "unlikely" that Beyonce changes her email address every week as claimed by singer Ed Sheeran.
"I have an email address that I email - that actually changes every week," he said during an interview about working with he…
How young is too young to be on social media?
Strictly speaking, only those aged 13 and over are allowed to use Facebook. But the prevention methods are trivial, meaning more than 20 million under-13-year-olds are thought to be using th…
Google will dedicate more than 10,000 staff to rooting out violent extremist content on YouTube in 2018, the video sharing website's chief has said.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki said some users were exploiting YouTube …
Carmaker Nissan plans to test self-driving taxis on Japanese roads from March next year.
The company is partnering with Japanese software company DeNA, which operates online services for the gaming, healthcare and automotive industries.…
For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats that plague youth-focused competitors like Snapchat. Rolling out today on iOS in the U.S., “Messen…
What's the cyber-security policy in your organisation? Is it common to share login passwords with your colleagues? Because that's how it works in the House of Commons - according to one MP at least.
Responding to the row over just who m…
A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines.
The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get admin access to the machine.
Wired ma…
Facebook is opening a new London office that will allow it to create 800 new UK jobs in 2018.
By the end of next year about 2,300 people will work for the social media company in the UK.
The office will be Facebook's biggest engineer…
Singularity. It’s discussed by futurists and by scientists. Then there are the rest of us grappling to get our heads around the “reality” that within a decade or so, Artificial Intelligence will cause machines to become “smarter” than huma…
The UK government has announced it will introduce draft legislation in the spring aimed at preventing unsafe or criminal use of drones.
Last year it ran a public consultation that recommended addressing safety, security and privacy chal…
Nearly three years ago, Saar Gur and I wrote about how early-stage consumer product companies were overlooked by venture capitalists, but had the potential to create breakout success. At the time, VCs largely shrugged off the category by p…
With Amazon as the 800-pound gorilla, many of my fellow investors choose to ignore e-commerce altogether. In fact, the industry hit recent lows in a number of deals and investments. But as Bonobos’ $310 million acquisition by Walmart and S…
Twitter has acknowledged that a day-long block of one of the New York Times's accounts was imposed in error.
The @nytimesworld team, which covers international events, has about 1.9 million followers and is recognised by the social netw…
Image-sharing website Imgur has confirmed that the emails and passwords of 1.7 million users were compromised in 2014.
The data breach has only recently come to light after being discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt.
Mr Hunt s…
The NHS is spending £20m to set up a security operations centre that will oversee the health service's digital defences.
It will employ "ethical hackers" to look for weaknesses in health computer networks, not just react to breaches.
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Last month, Twitter started work on a new “save for later” feature for Tweets in your timeline that you wanted to flag to refer back to in the future. Now it’s given the feature a name — it will be called Bookmarks — and is running tests w…
Facebook plans to let people see if they had "liked" pages created by "foreign actors" to spread propaganda during the US presidential election.
The social network has previously said as many as 126 million Americans may have seen conte…
Singapore plans to introduce driverless buses on its public roads by 2022.
The government says they will be piloted in three new neighbourhoods which will have less-crowded roads designed to accommodate the buses.
The buses will be u…
Turnout at U.S. retailers was relatively subdued on Black Friday, with many shoppers flocking to stores to eye items in person and enjoy the festive atmosphere while waiting to do their actual bargain hunting online.
There were few sign…
Hundreds of Amazon workers in Italy and Germany are on strike during one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Over 500 employees are carrying out their first ever strike at Amazon's warehouse in Piacenza near Milan over pay.
Pia…
Black Friday is well under way and the bargains will flow thick and fast all weekend - right up until the next sales peak on Cyber Monday.
Analysts Kantar predict UK shoppers will spend on average £246 ($327) each during the big event t…
Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO.HE) fell short of market expectations for quarterly sales and profit on Thursday, sparking a near 20 percent fall in the Finnish firm’s shares.
Increased marketing costs meant adjusted earnin…
Bangkok’s famous street-food vendors have joined the digital revolution, embracing payment via Quick Response (QR) barcodes that can be read using smartphones.
Thailand is famous for its traditional street stalls that offer everything f…
US prosecutors have charged an Iranian man with hacking into HBO, leaking Game of Thrones scripts and demanding a $6m (£4.5m) ransom.
Behzad Mesri is accused of computer fraud, wire fraud, extortion and identity theft.
Acting US atto…
YouTube, that strange stew of the best and worst content on the web, is cracking down on abuse and error relating to kid-focused video. Jokers and questionably ethical creators who targeted kids or used them in their videos will have a har…
Instagram just rolled out a neat feature for its live product. Users can now request to join a live stream that they’re watching and, if accepted, can start broadcasting live as the host’s guest.
To request to join a live video a viewer…
Uber concealed a hack that affected 57 million customers and drivers, the company has confirmed.
The 2016 breach was hidden by the ride-sharing firm which paid hackers $100,000 (£75,000) to delete the data.
The company's former chief…
A majority of Android smartphones collect location data and send it back to Google, even when location services are switched off.
News website Quartz reported Android phones gathered information about nearby mobile phone masts and share…
Drones that scatter swarms of sterile mosquitoes over wide areas are being developed to help stop the spread of diseases such as malaria.
Sterile male mosquitoes cannot produce offspring when they mate with females. By crowding out othe…
Skype's call and messaging service has been removed from app stores in China, including the Apple app store.
Apple says it is one of several apps to have been removed after the government said it does not comply with local law.
Skype…
Software is losing its magic. We simply demand too much from the current approaches. As a result, software developers are losing the battle with complexity, often without realizing it. More often than not, little failures pile on top of ot…
If you’re among the millions who own Sonos speakers, then you don’t need a paragraph explaining how great they are (the speakers, not the owners).
A Sonos is an internet-connected speaker. It can deliver music from 50 music sources (Spo…
Samsung (SSNLF) wants you to talk to your phone more. Not in the traditional sense of calling someone, but rather by chatting directly with your handset via its Bixby voice assistant. Launched on the company’s Galaxy S8, Bixby got off to a…
The value of China's biggest social network company - Tencent Holdings - has overtaken that of Facebook.
The company owns WeChat, an enormously popular messaging app in China, and hit gaming franchises such as League of Legends and Hono…
Google is to "derank" stories from Kremlin-owned publications Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik in response to allegations about election meddling by President Putin's government.
Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt said the search giant needed …
A German regulator has banned the sale of smartwatches aimed at children, describing them as spying devices.
It had previously banned an internet-connected doll called, My Friend Cayla, for similar reasons.
Telecoms regulator the Fed…
Remember the days when the Budget was secret and anybody who leaked it got fired?
Well, nowadays much of it gets dribbled out days in advance and over the weekend there was an eye-catching leak - or rather Treasury press release - about…
Apple is delaying the release of its HomePod smart speaker until 2018.
The electronics giant said the device, which was due to be released in December this year, still needed development work.
It said the HomePod would be ready to go…
Drone maker DJI has accused a cyber-security researcher of hacking its servers.
Kevin Finisterre claims that he accessed confidential customer data after finding a private key publicly posted on code-sharing site Github.
He approache…
If a picture paints a thousand words, then an emoji must be worth at least a few hundred, says Scott Cundill, co-founder of online reputational justice platform, The Gentle Reminders Club, who advocates that the Emoji is a powerful tool th…
There are more cases against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google to come, Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, said on Wednesday during a trip to Beijing.
The European Commission slapped a record 2.4 billion euro (…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to give limited help to the Indian government to develop an anti-spam mobile application for its iOS platform, after refusing to do so based on privacy concerns, according to sources and documents…
Amazon has finally brought its line of Alexa-powered Echo speakers to Canada. The release of Echo hardware has been long awaited by America’s northern neighbor, which could only watch and wait as Echo went through two generations in the U.…
Google Search’s built-in jobs search engine, which launched earlier this year, is getting an update today. For the most part, these new features address some basic shortcomings of the first version.
This means that in this new version, …
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