Ten million users are defined as having ‘objectively harmful daily usage’. According to leaked internal documents, the company is aware of the addictive methods

As international debate on social media reaches fever pitch, research reveals exactly what children are doing on the app

The Reform UK candidate has been accused of inventing quotes and misunderstanding statistics in Suicide of a Nation, but says critics are ‘left-wing activists’

Concerns about screen time, cyberbullying and toxic content have led some parents to ban phones altogether. But if your child insists, here are some options

New laws mark some of the strictest in the world to target hackers, requiring the private sector to seek government permission before paying cybercriminals

The streaming platform has threatened to withdraw from Turkey as the government condemns content that targets the couple’s lavish spending

Logically, which worked with the government to counter disinformation during the Covid pandemic, had recently lost contracts with social media giants

Games with in-app purchases and targeted advertising are being marketed by Apple and Google at children far younger than the limits set by developers

The US agency claims Kai West, who was arrested in France in February, is a hacker known as IntelBroker who stole data and tried to sell it on the dark web

Content urging the killing of ‘Zionists’ and videos of Israeli hostages being executed remains despite social media platforms having a legal duty to take it down

Smartphones wreck our ability to study, with most people surveyed unable to focus for an hour without using them

The Diary of a CEO podcast host says that the video-sharing site will he ‘hollowed out’ if it continues to take videos to train AI without paying creators

Keir Giles has revealed how he fell for a sophisticated phishing attack that gave cybercriminals posing as the US State Department access to his Gmail account

The singer condemned the parliamentary stand-off and praised peers who voted for new measures to protect the creative ­industries

The chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre tells British firms to ‘implement our advice immediately’ after a spate of hacks of commercial websites

MPs, peers and creative industry figures demand measures to force AI companies to reveal what copyrighted works they have used

The hip-hop star says a deal promoting Madri ­Excepcional was withdrawn because he was too open about his journey to sobriety

Inventor is selling a £24.90 per month artificial intelligence caller, which checks-in with elderly people every day and chats about their lives

Feryal Clark told MPs that generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT would be ‘at the heart’ of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Online safety groups and newspapers including The Times do not want legislation sacrificed in trade negotiations

Amy Orben, a Cambridge psychologist leading a government review, does not believe there is a simple solution to protect youngsters

He frequently failed at school, so how did the ‘weirdo’ teenager Bill Gates go on to found Microsoft and become a billionaire by 31? He talks about his memoir, Source Code — and what happened when he ...

Players of Marvel Rivals, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, have accused the company of blocking phrases that are deemed unacceptable in China

Starship Technologies has been delivering to towns and cities for six years and the man behind them says they are so cheap every firm will use them

Paul Abbott, a former director of a logistics company that went under after a ransomware attack, is intent on warning others of the growing danger

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Mercedes-Benz announces plans to develop paint that could generate enough electricity to enable a vehicle to travel 12,000km a year

A study commissioned by the technology secretary Peter Kyle will explore the effects of smartphone and social media use on children

John Edwards, the information commissioner, said penalties in the hundreds of millions of pounds, as in Europe, would only tie up his office in litigation

Pinwheel works for Samsung and Google devices and gives access to 1,200 apps

Emails released as part of a lawsuit show the feud between Musk and Sir Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind

O2’s anti-fraud bot wastes time and saves victims with her meandering stories and technical ineptitude