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Why Apple's crackdown on child abuse images is no easy decision

Apple will inspect photos uploaded to the cloud by iPhones in the US to detect images of child sexual abuse – a move praised by child welfare charities but condemned by privacy campaigners

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Pegasus spyware scandal: Can Silicon Valley stop government snooping?

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GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission

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YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies

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YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies

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Streamlined JPEG XL images could cut global data use by 30 per cent

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Streamlined JPEG XL images could cut global data use by 30 per cent

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Banning extreme views on YouTube really does help stop their spread

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Banning extreme views on YouTube really does help stop their spread

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Widespread internet outage linked to cloud service provider Fastly

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Widespread internet outage linked to cloud service provider Fastly

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What does Wi-Fi stand for?

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What does Wi-Fi stand for?

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Reading about Firefox makes it seem a faster web browser than Chrome

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Wikipedia has seen a spike in people editing pages during the pandemic

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Wikipedia has seen a spike in people editing pages during the pandemic

As Italy’s coronavirus lockdown started, Wikipedia saw an 80 per cent increase in editors from that country – and edits to the English version are up 20 per cent during the pandemic

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Our study of gambling and its harms shows it's time to intervene

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Quantum internet signals beamed between drones a kilometre apart

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Hordes of automated bots run the internet – can we bring them to heel?

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Google's AI can keep Loon balloons flying for over 300 days in a row

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