MoD fined after email blunder risked Afghan interpreters’ lives

Barbie and Oppenheimer were the most-searched for films in 2023, and took £30m in their opening weekend.

Microsoft briefly overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company after the iPhone maker began in 2024 with its worst start in years due to growing demand concerns. Shares of Microsoft rose 1.5% in early trading hours on Thursday, giving the company founded by Bill Gates a market cap of $2.88 trillion. The Redmond, Wash.-based company’s surge has…

A French start-up is ready to use an enzyme which can break down plastic on an industrial scale.

Bitcoin rose in volatile trading Thursday after the Securities and Exchange Commission gave the green light for the first-ever spot bitcoin ETFs to trade in the U.S., as expected. The cryptocurrency was last up 1% at $46,289.15, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it punched above $49,000, reaching levels not seen since December 2021. Meanwhile, the…

Jeff Lawson, founder, CEO and chairman of Twilio, speaks at a press conference during the Mobile World Congress on March 1, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis | Corbis News | Getty Images Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson on Monday said he is stepping down as CEO of the enterprise communications software company. The move…

If 2023 was the year that AI finally broke into the mainstream, 2024 could be the year it gets fully enmeshed in our lives — or the year the bubble bursts. But whatever happens, the stage is set for another whirlwind 12 months, coming in the wake of Hollywood’s labor backlash against automation; the rise…