Facebook encryption risks children’s safety, National Crime Agency warns

Riesman didn’t panic — but she didn’t want to impose her “spicy” pics on people. “It was, ‘Oh god, am I shoving my naked body in front of a load of people?’” she said. “I’ve curated my Circles to people I thought wouldn’t mind, but the general public does not need to see me in…

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced a bipartisan grilling on Thursday as he appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to address lawmakers’ concerns about the video sharing app, which has 150 million active users in the US. Of particular concern to the committee was the company’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, and its suspected…

Listen to article (1 minute) Google is going forward with sweeping changes to how companies track users online—moves that have been years in the making. Advertisers still aren’t ready. The changes, among the biggest in the history of the $600 billion-a-year online-ad industry, center on the use of cookies, technology that logs the activity of…

Apple unveils mixed reality headset Why Apple’s new mixed reality headset is making a splash 04:33 Apple’s Vision Pro headsets, first announced last June, will be available in the U.S. early next month, the company said Monday.  Customers can pre-order the headsets beginning Friday, January 19, for pick delivery or pick up on February 2. …

Apple is sending payments to millions of iPhone users whose older devices were slowed after the tech giant made software updates, part of a legal settlement over what came to be known as “batterygate.”  The payments, which have started landing in consumers’ bank accounts, are larger than expected, attorneys representing Apple customers said in a…

MP Penny Mordaunt tells the Covid inquiry messages to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove went missing.