EU watchdog barks

Euro NCAP, the car safety watchdog for Europe, is bringing in new rules for 2026 which mean that five vital tasks in every car will have to be done by real buttons instead of by a screen.

Social media giant's sites crash for two to three hours

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads went offline for two hours today, leaving millions of users fuming.

US Treasury hits snooping software bosses with sanctions

The US government has cracked down on the founder of the infamous spyware firm Intellexa and one of his cronies.

iPhone sales plummet in China as Huawei soars

Fruity-cargo cult Apple is facing a nightmare in China, the world's second-biggest economy, where its iPhone sales have plunged 24 per cent in the first six weeks of 2024.

Golden Pigs are flying

A top PC hardware leaker has spilt the beans on Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs, and there are some surprises.

Giving money to terrorists

The former boss of Britain's cyber security agency has urged the government to ban ransom payments to hackers, saying it is like giving money to terrorists.

Jobs' Mob finally faces the music

Fruity cargo-cult Apple has been slapped with a whopping £1.4 billion fine by the European Commission for squeezing out Spotify and other music streaming services.

AI bots will be a quarter of all searches by 2026 

Beancounters at Gartner group have added up some numbers, divided by their shoe size, and predicted that search engines will lose a quarter of their users by 2026 as AI chatbots and other virtual agents steal their thunder.

Switch "pirates" forced to pay £1.7 million and close

Nintendo, the gaming giant behind the Switch, has smashed Yuzu, the free software that lets you play Switch games on your PC, phone or tablet.

2024 is the year of Linux on the desktop

According to new figures from StatCounter, a top web tracker, Linux has seen a “huge boost” in popularity.