Alexander Martin
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The Queen: How Her Majesty saw the tech revolution through her reign
At the start of the Queen's reign in 1952, the annual Royal Christmas Message had not yet made it to television. By the end of her time on the throne, social media is used across the globe and the metaverse is in its infancy. → Read More
UK High Court rules Saudi Arabia not immune from legal challenge over spyware against British resident
Ghanem Al-Masarir, 41, is a satirist on YouTube and an activist who is suing Saudi Arabia after his phone was infected with spyware and he was assaulted in central London. → Read More
What is the new serious Apple vulnerability and how do you protect yourself from it?
The vulnerability - which the company said was being actively exploited - affected iPhones, iPads, and Macs and could allow attackers to take complete control of a victim's device. → Read More
Criminals posting counterfeit Microsoft products to get access to victims' computers
Microsoft launched an internal investigation into the suspect package after being contacted by Sky News and confirmed that it was counterfeit. → Read More
'Wrinkly bag' creature with no anus is not a human ancestor, scientists find
The bizarre creature has been described by researchers as "a spiky, wrinkly sack" and has been named Saccorhytus. → Read More
South Staffordshire Water says it was target of cyber attack as criminals bungle extortion attempt
The parent company for Cambridge Water and South Staffs Water stresses it is still supplying safe water for customers. → Read More
Nuclear war would cause global famine with more than five billion people killed, new study finds
The warning comes as "humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation", according to UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres. → Read More
WhatsApp to advertise new privacy features on UK billboards and TV after government criticisms
Three new features are being added to the end-to-end encrypted messaging app as the company begins a UK-wide advertising campaign in the face of government criticism. → Read More
Snapchat launches safety feature to give parents limited access to children's accounts
Parents won't be able to read the conversations their children are having, however they will be able to see who their friends are and when they last spoke to each other. → Read More
Online abuse: New study reveals which footballers are target of most abuse on Twitter
Just a dozen players received half of all abusive tweets - and eight of the top ten were all Manchester United players, suggesting that the popularity of the club skews the statistics when considered just in terms of volume. → Read More
Foreign Office accused of 'washing its hands' of Brit detained in Saudi Arabia
Crispin Blunt MP has accused the Foreign Office of failing to help his constituent Christopher Emms who was arrested in Riyadh in February on an Interpol Red Notice. → Read More
Ukraine war: Strikes on port of Odesa are 'spit in the face' from Russia following grain deal
Russia's ministry of defence has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, which followed the signing of a landmark agreement intended to avert an international food crisis. → Read More
GCHQ experts set out how to tackle online child sexual abuse despite end-to-end encryption
A new paper written by two trained mathematicians and career intelligence officers proposes a scientific way to tackle child sexual abuse as it occurs online. → Read More
UK and US launch prize challenges to develop democratic tech innovations
They come amid concerns that China is outpacing Western countries with its AI research - which some believe is at least in part hindered in the West by stricter privacy laws as well as technical and ethical concerns. → Read More
Meteoroid hit has caused 'significant uncorrectable' damage to James Webb Space Telescope
Like any spacecraft, the telescope has encountered micrometeoroids and its sensors have detected six deformations on the telescope's primary mirror panels that have been attributed to strikes. → Read More
Earth's 'black hole police' discover gravitational singularity near Milky Way
The team behind the discovery describe finding the aftermath of a star that vanished without any sign of a powerful explosion as like finding "a needle in a haystack". → Read More
UK's data privacy watchdog sets out three-year plan to deal with 'increasing demand and shrinking resources'
The Information Commissioner's Office is considering whether to prioritise Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by media organisations amid concerns that the government has been undermining transparency. → Read More
WhatsApp in Westminster: Watchdog calls for review into officials' use of private messaging apps
The Department of Health has been formally reprimanded, and the government warned that its use of WhatsApp has "the potential to lead to important information around the government’s response to the pandemic being lost or insecurely handled". → Read More
Businesses urged not to give in to ransomware cyber criminals as authorities see increase in payouts
While there have been arguments made for criminalising the payment of ransoms, it poses a number of additional risks such as providing the criminals with an additional factor they could use to extort their victims. → Read More
NASA criticises Russia for using space station to stage propaganda photographs
Regardless of the outcome of the invasion of Ukraine and the relations between the US and Russia, the long-term future of the International Space Station (ISS) is likely limited. → Read More