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Yahoo fined £250,000 over cyber-attack

Yahoo's UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014.

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Children exposed to horror film ads on YouTube

Children were left distressed after seeing ads for a horror film on YouTube, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has revealed.

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Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion, Moving to Grow in Coding’s New Era

GitHub, founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, was created largely as a community for software developers to share programming tools and code.

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security Why we need google ourselves

THE trend of searching your name on Google has died down, but there is a very important reason why we should pick up the habit again.

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Analysis: Snapchat needs to grow up

Snapchat is in trouble. The stock plunged to a new all-time low, below $11 a share, after a dismal earnings report that showed stagnant user growth for the social networking app.

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Twitter is telling everyone to change their password after a bug left 330 million passwords exposed

The company also said it is taking steps to ensure the bug does not happen again.

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Logan Paul ends daily YouTube vlog series

Logan Paul - one of YouTube's most popular and controversial video-makers - has announced he will no longer release material on a "daily" basis.

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Google to improve YouTube Kids app to let parents control what children watch

Enhanced controls will allow parents to handpick videos among a host of new features, but campaigners say YouTube must do more

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Vevo Music Videos Hacked (Report)

YouTube disabled access to clips from the service after hackers attacked the clip for "Despacito" and videos for Drake, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Shakira.

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Facebook suspends Cubeyou over harvesting data claims

Case of New York company’s alleged information collection under guise of academic research echoes Cambridge Analytica scandal
 

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Facebook privacy settings revamped after scandal

Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds.

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Reddit dragged into Russian propaganda row

Russian propagandists targeted the popular news-sharing website Reddit to influence American political debate, a US website has claimed.

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Google Chrome launches default ad-blocker

Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent "annoying" and "intrusive" ads being shown to users.

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A Facebook employee asked a reporter to turn off his phone so Facebook couldn't track its location — and it reveals a bigger problem within the company

* Facebook protects itself against leaks by tracking down the leakers and firing them.
* One Facebook employee who anonymously spoke with Wired recently asked the reporter to turn off his phone so the company couldn't track their location.

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YouTube is pulling Tide Pod Challenge videos

Why? Uh, because they're brightly colored?? We guess???????

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Page speed will soon affect Google Search results on mobile

The change will officially begin this July.

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