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Russian officials accuse Meta of ‘overt censorship’ after global Instagram and Facebook ban | Science & Tech News
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Russian officials are accusing Meta of “overt censorship” after the company banned Russian state media networks from its apps. RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other state media accounts were blocked around the world over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The Russian Embassy in the UK has now told Sky News…
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Mark Zuckerberg says Biden administration officials ‘pressured’ Meta to ‘censor’ content during pandemic | US News
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Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that senior officials within the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” COVID-related content during the pandemic. The claims by the CEO of Meta are in a letter dated 26 August to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Zuckerberg said he regretted not speaking up about this pressure earlier, as well…
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Chinese spy used LinkedIn to target British officials – report | Science & Tech News
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A Chinese spy used LinkedIn to target thousands of British officials and attempt to mine secrets, according to a report. The investigation, published in The Times, suggests an intelligence officer for Beijing’s main spy agency used aliases on the platform, which is the world’s biggest professional networking site, to try to bribe civil servants and…
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials | Business News
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Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been charged with bribing Chinese officials with payments of at least $40m (£32.4m). Prosecutors have accused him of directing the payment to unfreeze accounts belonging to his hedge fund linked to FTX. The accounts of his trading firm Alameda Research, which Chinese authorities had frozen, are said to have…
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Bird flu: Health officials draw up COVID-style model looking at pandemic possibilities | UK News
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A COVID-style plan for dealing with bird flu is being drawn up by health officials, modelling what would happen if the virus starts spreading between humans. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says there is “no evidence so far that the virus is getting better at infecting humans or other mammals” but warned the high…
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Cambodia girl, 11, dies from bird flu, health officials say | World News
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An 11-year-old girl from Cambodia has died from bird flu, health officials have said, the first person in the country to die from the infection since 2014. The girl was from the rural province of Prey Veng, in south-eastern Cambodia, and became ill on 16 February. She went to hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh,…
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German cybersecurity officials looking into ‘attacks’ on websites | World News
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Germany is looking into digital attacks by hackers targeting websites in the country. The attacks – known as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) – work by directing high volumes of internet traffic towards targeted servers in a bid by so-called hacktivists to knock them offline. “The scope and source of these attacks are currently being clarified,” the…
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German cybersecurity officials looking into ‘culprits’ behind Microsoft outage | World News
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Germany is looking into a Microsoft outage that affected users around the world today. The interior ministry said the country’s cybersecurity office was investigating to identify potential culprits behind the attack. “The scope and source of these attacks are currently being clarified,” said a spokesperson. The company has not revealed how many were affected, but…
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Chinese officials crack down on protests at Apple iPhone factory in Zhengzhou | World News
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People have been beaten and detained after protests by staff working at a huge factory making iPhones in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Footage posted online shows hundreds of workers involved in demonstrations with some smashing surveillance cameras and windows. Video shows police in masks, along with other officials in white hazmat suits, swinging…