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Cybersecurity firm ESET has released a new study concluding that Telegram is not a secure messaging platform, largely because end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default.

Officials maintained that the execution had proceeded normally, stating that the extended time was simply to allow the murderer to make his final statements.

Ali Law, TikTok’s director of public policy and government affairs for Northern Europe, has explained that the job cuts in favour of AI moderation allow the site to "set a high benchmark" for users’ safety online.

A US district judge in Washington has ruled that Facebook-parent Meta Platforms did not violate antitrust laws with its acquisitions of photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp more than a decade ago.

Europol announced on Thursday that it carried out a new phase of Operation Endgame, which dismantled three major cybercrime networks: the infostealer Rhadamanthys, the remote-access trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium.

The investment could help Portugal shore up a data centre hub in Sines.

Elon Musk doesn’t just want to send astronauts to Mars — he wants to send your kids too. The SpaceX founder, who’s spent years trying to make life "multiplanetary," shared an update in May that felt less like a corporate milestone and more like a recruitment video for humanity’s next big leap.

In the Wiltshire countryside, a seemingly unsuspecting greenhouse appears at the top of a hill.

Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, awarding the world’s richest person what would be the largest corporate payout in history if he meets the goals necessary to receive it.

More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include "explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent", according to a blog post published by OpenAI on Monday.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, marking the last flight before the company begins test-launching a new version of the giant rocket equipped with more features for moon and Mars missions.

London Defence R&D has developed an innovative solution to one of the fastest-evolving challenges on modern battlefields — the threat of hostile drones.

Tesla is under investigation by the US government following reports that the company’s self-driving cars have violated traffic laws, including driving on the wrong side of the road and failing to stop at red lights.

Jaguar Land Rover has started a gradual restart of its production lines, more than a month after a severe cyber-attack forced the British carmaker to halt operations worldwide.

The developer of ICEBlock, an app that allows people to crowdsource sightings of ICE officials, has expressed his determination to fight back after Apple removed the app from its App Store on Thursday.

Facebook and Instagram users will soon be able to browse without ads, as Meta unveils a paid subscription service for mobile and desktop

Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will be offered ad-free versions of the social networks for up to £3.99 a month.

A senior ministerial aide stated that AI companies will never have to compensate creatives for utilizing their content to train their systems, a statement that has alarmed campaigners who are demanding the Labour Party secure a fairer deal for musicians, artists, and writers from the tech industry.

NASA is accelerating plans to send humans back to the moon, with a possible launch as early as 5 February.

A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity, with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing.

A ChatGPT model provided researchers with detailed instructions on how to bomb a sports venue – including weak points at specific arenas, recipes for explosives, and advice on covering tracks – according to safety testing conducted this summer.

Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.

Experts at ESET Research Labs have discovered ransomware in which artificial intelligence plays a key role. This is the first known virus of its kind, named PromptLock.

SpaceX has carried out a successful test launch of its Starship spacecraft after a series of failed flights of the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket.