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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to improve US cyber-defences in light of recent attacks. The detailed order issues strict deadlines for all government departments to tighten security. It comes

The NHS contact-tracing app had a significant impact on lowering the spread of the coronavirus in the UK, a peer-reviewed paper has found. Researchers estimate the app prevented hundreds of thousands of

YouTube has launched a multi-million-pound advertising campaign to encourage young people in the UK to get vaccinated against Covid-19. It said the partnership with the NHS would involve ads on buses, billboards,

Campaigners are “astonished” that the government’s draft Online Safety Bill does not contain long-promised age verification checks for pornography. Companies have invested heavily in the technology in recent years to prepare for

For nine years, Chris Hughes has fought a battle very few people ever see. He oversees a team of 21 analysts in Cambridge who locate, identify and remove child sexual abuse material

Users yet to accept new terms and conditions for the messaging platform WhatsApp will start to get “persistent” reminders after the 15 May deadline. The changes relate primarily to the way businesses

Last year Google’s developer conference was cancelled. Google I/O was back this year with several new announcements. Here are the things that caught our eye. More inclusive camera Google says it is

Germany’s anti-trust watchdog is investigating whether Amazon has exploited its market dominance. The Federal Cartel Office said it would rule on whether the online marketplace had had an “almost unchallenged position of

Google has unveiled a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions, based on images uploaded by patients. A trial of the “dermatology assist tool”, unveiled at

Russia’s denial of involvement in the SolarWinds hack is “unconvincing”, the former head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre has said. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) director Sergei Naryshkin had said he

Crypto-currency scammers pretending to be Tesla boss Elon Musk have made more than $2m (£1.4m) in just six months, US consumer-protection officials say. The Federal Trade Commission received 7,000 complaints from people who had

Apple is paying up to $189 (£133) in compensation to customers of Apple Powerbeats 2 headphones in the US. In 2017, a class action lawsuit claimed the headphones did not retain battery