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‘My blue tick has passed away’: Twitter users mourn removal of legacy checkmarks

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‘Genie won’t go back in the bottle’ on AI, says security minister

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Ukraine’s success in cyberwarfare could create ‘concerning precedents’ – study

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Not enough being done to combat Russia-aligned threats, cyber chief warns

The alert will be broadcast on April 23.

Triggered by the UK's Emergency Alert system? Pull yourself together - you'll change your mind if it saves a relative

Georgia Harrison

Women and girls ‘traumatised’ by social media, warns Georgia Harrison

Netflix is clamping down on users who share passwords with those they don't live with

Netflix reveals when it will crack down on password sharing as customers braced to pay more to use same account

Campaigners are calling for the inclusion of a specific code of practice to be added to the Online Safety Bill to ensure social media companies respond to and prevent online violence against women and

Bill ‘needs code of practice’ to prevent violence against women and girls online

Sir Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ

GCHQ chief warns ministers at Cabinet meeting of AI risks

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Tech firms warn Government plans could lead to ‘indiscriminate surveillance’

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Encrypted messaging services sign open letter against Online Safety Bill

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Mobile alerts system could eventually be used for terror and nuclear threats

Millions of mobile phones across the UK will emit a loud alarm and vibrate at 3pm on April 23 in a nationwide test of a new public alert system (Jane Barlow/PA)

Details of next week’s UK mobile emergency alert system test released

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Ford brings ‘hands-free’ driving to UK motorways

Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’

Scientists design robot hand that can grasp objects based on wrist movement

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Outage which hit 1% of Vodafone broadband customers ‘fixed’

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Coronation Twitter emoji revealed as Charles’s 17th century golden crown

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Deal to allow tech companies to trial products in NHS test beds