Apple announced a suite of security and privacy improvements on Wednesday that the company is pitching as a way to help people protect their data from hackers, including one that civil liberty and privacy advocates have long pushed for. The tech giant will soon allow users to choose to secure more of the data backed […]
Twitter is under investigation by city officials in San Francisco following a complaint that the company allegedly converted rooms in its headquarters to sleeping quarters, an inquiry that has drawn scorn from Elon Musk. As of Monday, the office has “modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors” with four to […]
Elon Musk sought to assure Twitter advertisers that he is serious about the business and its culture before the completion of his $44 billion takeover. In an open letter that encouraged them to keep using Twitter under his leadership he said that the platform was “important to the future of civilisation” and that he wanted […]
A new report by MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has called on the Government to push forward with a draft Digital Markets Bill that would allow regulators to take a more proactive approach to curbing big tech dominance. The bill would enshrine the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Digital Markets Unit (DMU) […]
Apple has hiked its prices for its music and TV services for the first time ever this week, perhaps signalling things to come for its biggest streaming rivals. The tech giant said it would be increasing the price of Apple Music globally by $1 to $10.99, and breaking away from the standard ‘9.99’ price level […]
Elon Musk is considering cutting Twitter’s workforce by almost 75 per cent, as the deadline for his $44 billion takeover of the social media group edges closer. The world’s richest man has proposed drastic cuts to the San Francisco-based company’s 7,500 workforce, reducing it to just over 2,000, during conversations with prospective investors, The Washington […]
The volume of cyber attacks on UK businesses fell by four per cent in the third quarter of 2022, but remains high by historical standards, warns Beaming, the specialist business ISP. UK firms experienced 169,824 attempts each to breach their systems between July and September, on average, the equivalent of one every 47 seconds. Sonia […]
The European parliament has voted to introduce a single charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras by 2024 in a move that presents difficulties for Apple, whose iPhones use a different power connector. The vote confirms an earlier agreement among EU institutions and will make USB-C connectors used by Android-based devices the EU standard, […]
TikTok could be facing a £27 million fine for an alleged breach of data protection law by failing to protect young users’ privacy. The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued the Chinese-owned social media company with a notice of intent, a legal document that precedes a potential fine. It says that between May 2018 and July […]
Uber said on Thursday it is responding to a cybersecurity incident, after the New York Times reported that a hack had breached the company’s network and forced it to take several internal communications and engineering systems offline. A hacker compromised an employee’s workplace messaging Slack app and then used it to send a message to […]