Technology

170 million TikTok users in the United States may have to suddenly find a new platform for their videos – after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law effectively banning the app.  

Creating sexually explicit “deep fake” images will become a criminal offence under new laws aimed at protecting women and girls. 

Mark Zuckerberg is planning to team up with Donald Trump to “push back” against what he called the EU’s “ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship”.

It was once the world’s online marketplace of ideas. But ever since the billionaire tycoon Elon Musk bought up Twitter and renamed it X – dissatisfied users have fled the site – especially after the US election. 

I cover wars, natural disasters and personal tragedies on an almost daily basis so I thought I’d be braced for anything as I prepared to confront my own deepfake.

It feels, indeed, like a twin track process, with the world of politicians and diplomats trying to play catch-up in a world where global capitalism senses that money, jobs, profit and The Future lie in the world of green transition.

A joint investigation from Channel 4 News and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that the UK bank NatWest is continuing to lend to the oil and gas company BP.

COP29: Around $2.4 trillion annually are required, and on the face of it, those figures look screamingly, painfully, impossible. In fact, though, we are already awash with money.

The amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse content is “chilling” and reaching a “tipping point”, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.

A carbon offset pioneer who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits has been charged with fraud by US authorities following an investigation by Channel 4 News. 

It’s the end of an era in Port Talbot, South Wales. From Monday, the last blast furnace will shut down at one of the biggest steelworks in the world, leaving it unable to make its own steel.

That means pylons – across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. And the battle lines are  forming. To bury or not to bury, that is the question. Nobody wants to look out on pylons.

He said it was a joke, but that didn’t stop the White House from slamming Elon Musk as “irresponsible” for musing on X about why no one had tried to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, after the attempt against Donald Trump.

Gaming has become its own world. No longer just about buying the game itself, it has its own virtual places where you can change the look, feel and sound. Everything for a price, of course.

The right-wing Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni is suing a father and his son for allegedly making deepfake pornographic videos of her.