3.5 billion whats app accounts were retrieved by researchers as they were available unprotected! https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html
In news that won’t surprise many, ITV is in talks to sell it’s TV business to Sky for £1.6bn. This would have huge consequences for TV in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxk7j87xd0o
The major social media companies are falling into line to ban under-16’s from accessing social media in Australia from December 10th 2025. I can see if this is in any way shape or form successful…
This is going to happen I think as regulators clamp down on the walled garden approach. I imagine that Apple users will start to lose features in the UK like they have in the EU…
Again a big tech company does something that I can’t imagine ANY users really want or need. Youtube will soon enable autodubbing on videos new and then old, replacing dialogue with translations by AI. I’m…
I have talked about this many times, simply because AI is so fraught to dangers and criticisms and for a lot of things it can be just plain wrong (we have all seen the AI…
I have been arguing this very point for years, and this article which is a good read (though on The Guardian) is worth a read to explain what, how and why internet services continue to…
In a bold move Meta has been ordered to change the options for displaying the timeline by a Dutch court to allow simpler and timelines free from algorithms. Of course Meta has appealed but this…
For years I have used our cheap Android TV box to play back files using DLNA, which of course has a myriad of security issues. Having recently upgraded and sorted out totally our homebuilt NAS…
Now for a bit of context this IS a BBC report so do take it with a pinch of salt, but parents out there doing their best to share as much as they can about…
