Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports World Cup. The 34-year-old Norwegian will take home $250,000 (around £188,000). The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. The inclusion of chess in this year’s […]
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Some Gaza and Ukraine posts blocked under new age checks
24 hours ago ShareSave Ned Davies, Shayan Sardarizadeh & Matt Murphy BBC Verify ShareSave Getty Images Social media companies are blocking wide-ranging content – including posts about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza – in an attempt to comply with the UK’s new Online Safety Act, BBC Verify has found. The new legislation, which came […]
Ofcom investigates 34 porn sites over age checks
11 hours ago ShareSave Liv McMahon Technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images Ofcom is investigating four companies, operating a total of 34 porn sites, over whether they are complying with its new age check requirements. The regulator said on Friday more than 6,000 sites allowing pornography and other adult content would start using “highly effective” tools […]
Dating safety app Tea suspends messaging after hack
14 hours ago ShareSave Charlotte Edwards Technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images Messaging has been turned off on the women’s dating safety app Tea, following a hack which has exposed thousands of images, posts and comments. In a new statement the company said: “As part of our ongoing investigation into the cybersecurity incident involving the Tea […]
EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens
13 hours ago ShareSave Liv McMahon & Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter and editor ShareSave Getty Images EE is introducing new phone plans next month which it says will restrict the internet for teens – so long as they don’t use wi-fi. Its new Sim-only mobile plans will filter the web at different levels depending on […]
Google launches new AI search feature in UK
38 minutes ago ShareSave Zoe Kleinman Technology editor•@zsk ShareSave Getty Images Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world’s most popular search engine. Instead of a list of search results showing links to other websites in blue type, […]
Hackers steal images from women’s dating safety app that vets men
A dating safety app that allows women to do background checks on men and anonymously share “red flag” behaviour has been hacked, exposing thousands of members’ images, posts and comments. Tea Dating Advice, a US-based women-only app with 1.6 million users, said there had been “unauthorised access” to 72,000 images submitted by women. Some included […]
Around 6,000 porn sites start checking ages in UK
12 hours ago ShareSave Liv McMahon & Andrew Rogers BBC News ShareSave Getty Images Around 6,000 sites allowing porn in the UK will start checking if users are over 18 on Friday, according to the media regulator Ofcom. Dame Melanie Dawes, its chief executive, told the BBC “we are starting to see not just words […]
EE and BT network outage resolved, firm says
3 hours ago ShareSave Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images A network outage affecting thousands of EE and BT customers has been resolved, a spokesperson has said. Customers reported they were unable to make or receive calls as the mobile phone and landline networks faced an outage. Some customers reported issues with making 999 […]
Apple and Google have ‘effective duopoly’ in UK says regulator
12 hours ago ShareSave Liv McMahon & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters ShareSave Getty Images Apple and Google may be required to change the way they operate some of their mobile services in the UK, according to proposed decisions by the UK’s competition regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the tech giants over […]