A judge in New Mexico yesterday ordered Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) after a trial found the company had spent years misleading the public about how it handled Facebook user data. The penalty, the largest Meta has faced, follows a two-week trial earlierContinue Reading

Thirty-two UK government services are offline and four are partially unavailable while officials address a critical security flaw in the programming language PHP, tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the House of Lords today. “The information I have is that 32 Government services are unavailable and four are partiallyContinue Reading