Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found.

The Indian government on Wednesday, July 1, asked WhatsApp to explain within three days why regulatory action should not be initiated over its planned “usernames” feature.

Vinton Cerf, one of the founders of modern internet technologies and known worldwide as the “Father of the Internet,” is concluding his long career in the tech world.

Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Amazon, claiming the tech giant introduced adverts in Prime Video using allegedly unfair contract terms.

Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the ‌dark web by the ransomware group that stole data from the U.S. firm’s Indian supplier Tata Electronics, according to documents and a source. MORE..

WhatsApp is set to let people chat without having to reveal their phone number - by exchanging unique usernames instead.

Australia plans to double potential fines for social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, that fail to prevent Australian children from holding accounts as critics argue the world-first ban on under-16s was failing.

Google Wallet can now automatically track packages using Gmail receipts, with parcel updates appearing alongside payment methods.

Google has put limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models after the social media company sought more computing capacity than the rival tech group could provide, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming powerful enough to significantly enhance the capabilities of criminals, terrorist groups and hostile states unless governments and technology companies strengthen safety measures, according to a new report published by the ...MORE..

Starlink, the satellite ​internet unit of ‌Elon Musk’s SpaceX, said ​on Thursday ​it will provide ⁠free services ​to its ​users in Venezuela for a month, ​after two ​earthquakes hit the ‌South ⁠American nation. MORE..

Australia’s prime minister ​said on Friday he was keen to make sure the country’s social media ban ‌for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found that the measure — the first of its kind and now six months old — had little impact on teen use. MORE..

Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip ​costs driven by the AI industry’s datacenter buildout. MORE..

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ordered a nationwide ban on civil servants’ smartphone use, a military court order showed, prompting ​warnings from rights activists that the move could further restrict access ‌to information. MORE..

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status on Tuesday, less than two weeks after becoming the first person to achieve it following SpaceX's public debut, according to data from Bloomberg.

U.S. AI company Anthropic accused Alibaba, the Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities in what ​it said was the largest known attack of its kind on the company, according to a ‌letter seen by Reuters.

The New Democratic Front Parliamentarian President’s Counsel Faiszer Musthapha, PC, has presented a Private Member’s Bill aimed at restricting children’s access to social media platforms.