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Instagram has apologised after a “mistake” with its algorithm promoted diet content to users with eating disorders. The search function in the app automatically recommended terms including “appetite suppressants” and “fasting” to…

The use of facial recognition for surveillance, or algorithms that manipulate human behaviour, will be banned under proposed EU regulations on artificial intelligence. The wide-ranging proposals, which were leaked ahead of their…

The US government is set to issue a wide range of sanctions against Russia, according to reports. The move would be retaliation for cyber-attacks aimed at the US, including alleged interference in the 2020 presidential elections.…

Even though it is possible to clean an infected computer and completely remove malware from a system, the damage caused by some forms of malware, such as ransomware, cannot be undone. If a malware has encrypted your files and you…

Facebook's Oversight Board is to begin reviewing content which has been allowed to remain on the platform despite requests to remove it. Previously the board only heard appeals from users about content they felt had been unfairly…

We’ve been on the internet for almost 35 years, yet we still haven’t learned our lesson about online passwords. According to a recent security study, the most commonly used web passwords are things like “123456” and “password.”…

Warning: this story contains disturbing adult themes. Michael was 14 when he first went on to the video chat site Omegle. He'd heard about it at school and was intrigued by its notorious reputation for unpredictable…

A teenager has told how he was groomed by criminals to sell heroin and crack cocaine after being recruited through an advert posted on Snapchat. Two years ago, aged 14 and wanting to run away from home, he responded…

Android users will receive a notification telling them to stop looking at their mobile phones while walking, a leaked new tool suggests. The feature is being tested in an update to the Digital Wellbeing app, tech blog…

TikTok star Justine Paradise has accused YouTuber Jake Paul of sexually assaulting her at his home in Los Angeles in 2019. Paradise alleges Paul grabbed her face and forced her to perform oral sex on him, and touched her…

US authorities have arrested a man who allegedly plotted to bomb an Amazon data centre, which he believed would "kill off about 70% of the internet". Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested after receiving a dud explosive device…

Google's email service - Gmail - is “more secure” than parliament's email system, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee has claimed. Tom Tugendhat told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he has repeatedly been…

Cyber-security firm Darktrace has said it intends to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange. Darktrace did not indicate how much it is seeking to raise, but media reports suggest it could be as much as £3bn. The…

Awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop tiny sensors smaller than your fingertip that can detect the presence of COVID-19 virus nano-particles on screens, tables and other surfaces Multi-disciplinary team from GE…

Shares in Alibaba surged on Monday after the e-commerce company said that a record $2.8bn fine handed down by Chinese regulators marked the end of an investigation into anti-competitive practices at the company. Top executives at the…

Google used a secret program called "Bernanke" that used historical bidding data to give its ad-buying system a major advantage over its rivals, an antitrust lawsuit filing claims, a program that earned the company hundreds of millions of…

As a member of one of the most famous and glamorous families on the planet, Khloe Kardashian is rarely pictured looking less than a million dollars. The TV star and social media influencer and her team usually know how to produce…

The often colourful tweets of former president Donald Trump are being preserved for posterity but may never appear again on Twitter. The National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) is working to create an…

Everyone has their breaking point. And when it comes it can be a small thing, an incident that usually wouldn't matter. Shannon Wait's moment was when her Google-issued water bottle broke. The data centre she worked…

Investigators in Rome have placed under house arrest a man who they say paid an attacker over the dark web to maim his ex-girlfriend. The suspect is accused of offering €10,000 (£8,700; $12,000) in Bitcoin in return…

Twitter has launched a new emoji for the "Milk Tea Alliance" - a movement uniting Asian pro-democracy activists. The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong and Taiwan with pro-democracy…

"Last week, I put 73 hours in. You're not getting home through the week," Craig Hoodless says of his job behind the wheel of a truck. "After a full day's driving you're mentally knackered but physically fine. Being a…

Victims of ransomware gangs are being urged to report it rather than pay the criminals behind the attacks. The gangs use malicious software to scramble and steal an organisation's computer data and demand money to restore it. Megan…

A man in Australia has been arrested after allegedly placing fake QR labels over official Covid-19 check-in signs in South Plympton, Adelaide. When customers used their smartphones to check-in, they were instead directed to an…

A "simple flaw" caused by a language difference led to a "serious incident" for a flight from Birmingham last year. All female passengers whose title was "Miss" were classified as children - not adults - on the Tui…

Millions of British people are using their pet's name as their online password, despite it being an easy target for hackers, a survey has found. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said 15% of the population…

"I would really appreciate if you take that down. I'm a really private person." Actress Rachel Bilson has recalled her surprise on receiving this message from old school friend and fellow film star Remi Malek after she had posted…

A decade-long battle over copied code in Google's Android operating system has ended in the US Supreme Court. Oracle, another tech titan, had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over what it said was copied…

Last updated on 2 hours ago2 hours ago.From the section Sport Football clubs, players, athletes and a number of sporting bodies have begun a four-day boycott of social media in an attempt to tackle abuse and discrimination on their…

Amazon has apologised to a US politician for falsely denying that drivers are, at times, forced to urinate in plastic bottles. Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, referenced Amazon making "workers urinate in water bottles" in a…