China launches campaign to keep killjoys off the internet
Getty Images Social media giants have also found themselves penalised in China’s campaign to clean up its internet The Chinese government is taking aim at an emotion that has become…
The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers
Zoe CorbynTechnology Reporter, San Francisco Getty Images E. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biology Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste…
How the hedgehog keeps up to speed
Peter Gillibrand and Tom RichardsonBBC Newsbeat Sega Sonic’s back with a new racing game – but who’s he jostling for pole position with? “Sega does what Nintendon’t”. The slogan, from…
Children’s names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery hack
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. A group of cyber criminals says it is using the highly…
App’s child data protection inadequate, Canada probe finds
TikTok’s efforts to stop children using the app and protect their personal data have been inadequate, a Canadian investigation has found. Hundreds of thousands of children in the country use…
Man arrested in connection with cyber-attack on airports
Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reporter and Joe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several…
AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says
A new artificial intelligence tool designed to crack down on fraud has helped the UK government recover almost £500m over the last year, the BBC can reveal. More than a…
YouTube content creators contributed £2.2bn to UK economy in 2024
Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor Emma Lynch/BBC YouTube content creators contributed £2.2bn to the UK economy in 2024 and supported 45,000 jobs, according to an impact report carried out by Oxford Economics.…