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Getty Images Ofcom has been accused of “trivialising” violence against women and girls after a senior member of staff jokingly promoted a job supervising the porn industry. “Always wanted to work in porn but don’t have the feet for an OnlyFans? Now is your chance!” says a post on LinkedIn, which is drawing attention to a “Supervision Associate” post being …

US President-elect Donald Trump is meeting the CEO of TikTok as the social media giant fights plans to have it banned in the US. Trump was due to meet Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reports, citing sources familiar with the meeting. A law passed earlier this year means …

Dean Raper Diabetic retinopathy cost Terry Quinn his vision This is the second feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments. Terry Quinn was only in his teens when he was diagnosed with diabetes. In some ways he rebelled against the label and frequent tests, not wanting to feel different. His …

Getty Images Amazon pushes its US warehouse workers to fulfill orders at speeds that could cause high rates of injury despite being aware of the risks, an investigation led by Senator Bernie Sanders has found. The findings, following an 18-month probe of the firm, support claims that workers and labour campaigners have made about the company for years. The report …

Getty Images Online platforms must begin assessing whether their services expose users to illegal material by 16 March 2025 or face financial punishments as the Online Safety Act (OSA) begins taking effect. Ofcom, the regulator enforcing the UK’s internet safety law, published its final codes of practice for how firms should deal with illegal online content on Monday. Platforms have …

Getty Images The world’s largest cryptocurrency has risen by more than 50% since Trump’s election victory Bitcoin has surged to a new record high, extending a rally that has seen the cryptocurrency’s price rise by more than 50% since Donald Trump’s victory in the 5 November election. The world’s largest cryptocurrency briefly passed $106,000 (£83,890), before falling back to around …

Getty Images Luigi Mangione is accused of murdering healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant’s new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United States. Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the …

Sony Astro Bot brings together some of the biggest character designs from PlayStation’s past and present Astro Bot has won the top prize at the videogame industry’s biggest awards ceremony. The cute and colourful PlayStation platformer beat Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Black Myth: Wukong, Metaphor: Refantazio Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree and Balatro to be named Game of the …

A federal court in St Louis has indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly being part of a long-running conspiracy aimed at extorting funds from US companies and funneling money to Pyongyang’s weapons programmes. The wider scheme allegedly involves thousands of North Korean IT workers who use false, stolen, and borrowed identities from people in the US and other countries to …

Adsilico AI can produce many versions of a digital heart This is the first of a six-part series on how AI is changing medical research and treatments. The heart in front of me beats and moves like a human organ, but has no blood flowing through it, nor does it live in a human body. It’s a computer-generated heart, or …