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Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has protested to the home secretary after prosecutors dropped charges against two men accused of spying for China and targeting MPs. Sir Lindsay told Sky News the decision “leaves the door open” to foreigners spying on the House of Commons, and he has written a …

Jessica Lane, Erica WitheringtonPreston and Jonny HumphriesNorth West GMP Stuart Latham posed as a 14-year-old boy, targeting children all over the world A child rapist has been jailed, following a campaign of online grooming and blackmail which experienced detectives described as “one of the most horrific cases” they had ever …

Jonny HumphriesNorth West Lancashire Police Neil Platt scrolled through images of naked women on the social media app X second before slamming into a car A HGV driver who killed a father-of-two while “heavily distracted” by pornography on his phone has been jailed for 10 years. Neil Platt was scrolling …

To cover American tech policy over the past few years has been to watch a series of individually dangerous waves of regulation and political operations roll toward an inevitable convergence. To cover American tech policy over the past few months is to watch those waves collide invisibly beneath the surface …

Presented to the French court as a peace offering after years of hostility with Austria, Marie Antoinette had split allegiances that mired her in suspicions − not all unfounded − that she shared military secrets with Austria. She was deemed indifferent to the French people, and derogatory references to her as “L’Autri-chienne” (a wordplay on the …

Swedish virtual private network company Mullvad VPN is adding QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard to help users get around firewalls and censorship, the company said in a blog post earlier this month.  WireGuard is an industry-standard VPN protocol that’s both lightweight and effective, using strong cryptography while also being speedy. QUIC obfuscation …

Getty Images James O’Neill, 49, from west Belfast will spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to the offences A man who sent an indecent image of a 16-year-old girl to her own mother on Instagram has been jailed for 12 months. James O’Neill, of Cluain Mor Drive in …

Patrycja Boryka, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections, FME/3/32 The Lincoln Women’s Action Group created a naked men’s calendar in the 1970s In 1977, calendars of topless women were plastered everywhere – in car garages, pubs and even staff rooms. Fed up with seeing them, …

Colombia’s highest court has ruled that Meta violated a pornstar’s right to freedom of expression when it deleted her Instagram account. The South American nation’s Constitutional Court said on Friday that the tech firm had removed Esperanza Gómez’s account “without a clear and transparent justification” and without offering similar treatment …

Instagram/Bionicsurgeon Neil Hopper told the world his legs were amputated after he got sepsis – but he was not telling the truth One question has dominated conversations about the case of Neil Hopper, a surgeon who faked sepsis to have his own legs removed. Why would a person want to …

Bluesky will now check the ages of users located in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with local online safety laws. The platform announced on Wednesday that users in both states will be able to prove their age using an ID, payment card, or other method. Both South Dakota and …

At least 14 people have been killed and dozens more injured in Nepal’s capital as protesters clashed with police over a government decision to block 26 social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube. Protesters pushed through fencing and forced riot police to retreat as they surrounded the parliament building …

Instagram/Bionicsurgeon Neil Hopper told the world his legs were amputated after he got sepsis – but he was not telling the truth When I interviewed surgeon Neil Hopper in 2023 for BBC News, I believed I was speaking to a man who had been humbled by the life-changing experience of …

Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, White House Watch: “The robots are here”, says Melania Trump at AI task force meeting First Lady Melania Trump made a rare public appearance at the White House on Thursday, telling the crowd that “the robots are here” and that it is “our responsibility to prepare …

BBC An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has admitted two counts of insurance fraud and three of possessing extreme pornography. Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019. Truro Crown Court heard he lied …

Watch: Nigel Farage and US congressman clash on freedom of speech Nigel Farage has urged US politicians and businesses to tell the British government “you’ve simply got this wrong” on freedom of speech rules, as he compared the UK to North Korea. The Reform UK leader was in Washington DC …

The arrest of Father Ted’s co-creator over social media posts has reignited arguments over what you should and shouldn’t be allowed to say online. Graham Linehan, who also created the Black Books and The IT Crowd comedies, said on Tuesday he was arrested at Heathrow Airport over posts on X …

Jayne McCubbin & Lynette HorsburghBBC News, Liverpool BBC Esther Ghey said there was “absolutely no place in school” for mobile phones The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has said a ban on mobile phones in schools would have given her daughter “a better chance in life”. Esther Ghey has …

Graham FraserTechnology Reporter Getty Images Parents of teenage ChatGPT users will soon be able to receive a notification if the platform thinks their child is in “acute distress”. It is among a number of parental controls announced by the chatbot’s maker, OpenAI. Its safety for young users was put in …

Joshua AskewBBC News, South East and Neil HendersonBBC News, Old Bailey St Mary’s Eastbourne Geoffrey Baulcomb has been jailed for a total of three years A former vicar has been jailed after admitting causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) by carrying out an extreme body modification with scissors. Geoffrey Baulcomb, from …