POPULAR real-time flight-tracking website Flightradar24 was hit by a cyber-attack that knocked out access to its services for hours. The attack is the third the company has suffered in two days, it said. Early attempts to restore the site failed, with “significant instability due to the sustained attacks”, it said. It did not say…
TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction. The video-sharing app had faced being removed from Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play marketplace at midnight local time in Washington DC. Existing US-based users would have been able to have continued using it. But…
TWITTER is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones. Users noticed when two photos – one of a black face the other of a white one – were in the same post, Twitter often showed only the white face on mobile. Twitter said it had tested for racial…
TWITTER has automatically activated extra account protection for politicians and key figures in the forthcoming US election. A select group of election-related accounts will have to make immediate changes to improve their security. Twitter was the victim of one of the most significant hacks of a social network in history, in June. It said it…
MICROSOFT has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to make a last-minute bid. US President Donald Trump gave a 15 September deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down. The Trump administration claims TikTok and other…
GOOGLE says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in “high-quality carbon offsets”. It became carbon-neutral in 2007 and says it has now compensated for all of the carbon it has ever created. It also aimed to run all of its data centres and offices on carbon-free energy by 2030, chief executive…
One of the clear takeaways from Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold2 5G is that this is a product made by a company at the top of its game. The phone is not only a major improvement on the original model, it’s also a good phone. I’m typically reticent when it comes to heaping praise on an experimental…
Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified for two days before the US competition czar this week as part of an ongoing investigation into the company’s practices. The tech giant’s chief executive appeared before the Federal Trade Commission to answer questions about whether or not the company was abusing its outsized portion of the ad…
TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump issued an executive order on Aug. 14 that gave ByteDance 90 days to divest the U.S….
Twitter has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express an interest in buying its US operations, according to sources. Video-sharing platform TikTok has been at the centre of fierce debate in recent weeks and takeover talk. Last week US Donald Trump ordered firms to stop doing business with TikTok within 45 days over security…
