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Meta will pay out a whopping $17 billion in a landmark trial that will see the social media giant impose stricter limits on kids using its platforms.

Meta, the social media giant behind Facebook and Instagram, will pay up to $16.68bn (£12.26bn) to settle its landmark child safety social media case.

US prosecutors have expanded an eight-year-old hacking case tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, adding eight defendants and linking six of them to the 2017 HBO breach that included a $6 million Bitcoin extortion attempt.

SpaceX unveiled plans on Tuesday to build its largest rocket launch complex yet in southern Louisiana, a $100 billion effort to transform coastal wetlands into a critical base for the company’s Starship and AI satellite launch ambitions.

Cyber spies use custom lures to hack “high-ranking officials,” EU’s internal cyber unit warns.

A UK power generator was forced to shut down for four days following a cyber attack linked to Iran.

Hackers linked to the Iranian regime shut down a British power plant for four days in what has been billed as an unprecedented attack.

French authorities are investigating a series of major cyberattacks after a hack of the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts compromised the personal and financial data of nearly 700,000 individuals and businesses.

Meta AI glasses could soon be banned from cinemas in the UK amid piracy concerns.

A former engineering director at Meta said CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram.

The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.

U.S. prosecutors have charged eight additional Iranians in an alleged state-linked hacking campaign that targeted universities, companies and government agencies worldwide.

China launched the reusable rocket Zhuque-3 on Wednesday morning, achieving its first recovery of a rocket’s first stage on land.

A jury will decide whether or not Meta designed its apps to “hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data and hide the truth from the public"

Sainsbury’s has suspended use of live facial recognition technology at one of its branches after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and asked to leave.

The self-appointed good guys of AI are now drawing energy from one of the world’s most controversial data centres.

American Heart Aerospace conducted the first flight of the full-scale electric demonstrator aircraft X1, which the company calls the world’s largest battery-powered aircraft ever to take to the skies. During the 27-minute flight, it used approximately $5 worth of electricity.

AI “nudification” apps allowing users to upload their own photos to generate depictions of rape and sexual assault are freely available to download on Apple’s App store

A Berlin-based non-profit has filed a criminal complaint against Meta’s smart glasses, arguing the devices breach Germany’s strict privacy rules and should be banned.

You shouldn’t store any sexually explicit photos or videos on social media accounts or other platforms that are accessible via the internet. Doing so makes you a target for hackers.

The pub giant said it does not permit the recording of customers or employees without consent, and that “Meta glasses seem to breach this code, and common sense, by enabling surreptitious surveillance”.

Hackers attempted a series of sophisticated cyberattacks on major Wall Street financial services firms and ​money managers in recent days, targeting their information systems, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A SpaceX rocket has crashed into the Moon – and experts say it serves as both a warning and a lesson for those of us on Earth.

Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes is believed to have slammed into the moon.