China and India had agents working for Twitter, says whistleblower
Twitter’s former security chief has told US Congress there was “at least one agent” from China’s intelligence service on the social network’s payroll and that the company knowingly allowed India to add agents to the company
Researchers find new way to extract high-purity silver from used solar panels
Researchers have found an alternative way to extract high-purity silver from used solar panels. The metal is essential to the functioning of the panels, but the amount of naturally occurring silver found in ores is decreasing,
Bezos rocket fails during lift-off with only experiments aboard
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company suffered its first launch failure Monday. No one was aboard, only science experiments. The Blue Origin rocket blasted off from West Texas and was barely a minute into the flight when bright
Global operation takes down hackers’ leaked data market
Western authorities have dismantled an online marketplace used to buy and sell hacked and stolen personal data belonging to millions of people and have charged the platform’s founder and chief administrator, officials have announced. Law enforcement
Apple ‘deeply concerned’ about laws undermining user privacy, Tim Cook says
Apple boss Tim Cook has said the company is “deeply concerned” by proposed laws it says could weaken user privacy and put people’s data at risk. Speaking at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global
Instagram ‘failing to protect women in the public eye from misogynist abuse’
Instagram is not doing enough to protect women in the public eye from misogynistic abuse online, a new report has claimed. A study by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which included input from several
‘Stolen’ Darwin manuscripts anonymously returned to university library
Two Charles Darwin manuscripts that were reported as stolen from Cambridge University Library have been anonymously returned in a pink gift bag, with a typed note on an envelope wishing a Happy Easter to the librarian.
