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Medibank branch

Hacker holds Australian health insurer’s data for ransom

Online Safety Bill

Some UK adult sites ‘not doing enough to protect children’ – Ofcom

Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell to pair music industry stars with TikTok users in new project

Vodafone

Vodafone unveils new social broadband tariff and free connectivity for small firms

Laptop

Businesses must do more to boost cyber defences, says Nadhim Zahawi

Child online safety measures

Social media safety ratings needed to protect children from online harm – report

Cars wait at a red light during rush hour on the Las Vegas Strip

Eleven more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles including Teslas

New Apple iPads

Apple announces new-look iPad and upgraded iPad Pro

Kanye West

Kanye West buying alternative social media platform Parler

Online Safety Bill

Young LGBTQI+ people ‘nearly twice as likely’ to encounter hate speech online

Molly Russell as a young child

Will the Molly Russell inquest change the Online Safety Bill?

Molly Russell

Molly Russell death: Coroner suggests separate platforms for adults and children

World Sight Day campaign

Schoolgirl who inspired Disney challenges glasses stereotype of nerd-face emoji

Portable exoskeleton boot

Exoskeleton boot ‘allows people to walk 9% faster with less effort’

New Microsoft Surface devices

Microsoft unveils Surface devices for ‘new era’ of computing

Dyson Gen5detect vacuum cleaner

Dyson unveils cordless vacuum cleaner ‘capable of capturing virus particles’

People will be able to get their jabs before hitting the rollercoasters.

iPhone 14 calls police from users' pockets as it mistakes rollercoasters for car crashes

Ai-Da robot

Ai-Da robot makes history by giving evidence to parliamentary inquiry