A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest ruling against the company over child safety.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration is considering asserting greater authority over artificial intelligence (AI) tools following recent cybersecurity incidents.
Russia has charged Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism over allegations the messenger app has been used for recruitment by Ukrainian secret services.
The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) says over GH¢296,000 was lost between January and June 2026 because of restaurant and food-vendor impersonation scams.
An Illinois man was sentenced on Tuesday to more than six years in prison after admitting he hacked the Snapchat accounts of hundreds of women in order to steal any nude or semi-nude photos they had, which he then kept, sold or traded on the internet.
Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state's claims that Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several trials in the coming weeks testing allegations that the company's social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive.
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has removed the exclusivity clause in Next Gen InfraCo Limited’s (NGIC) licence that made the company Ghana’s sole provider of wholesale 5G infrastructure.
The Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations today received the final report of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Committee, marking an important milestone in Government’s efforts to strengthen the long-term sustainability, governance and effectiveness of Ghana’s digital broadcasting platform.
Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users and misled the public about their safety.
The Indian government has directed Meta to immediately disable advertisements and content on Instagram that promote or facilitate child sexual abuse material, a senior official said.
India has issued notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal over concerns that their username features could facilitate impersonation and other forms of misuse, a government source said on Friday, escalating the country's scrutiny of user-anonymity tools on digital platforms.
Google has exceeded a five-year target to invest $1 billion in Africa, it said on Wednesday, as it made public initiatives on infrastructure and the development of AI to accelerate the continent's digital growth.
Apple said it is pushing forward a series of software updates that would previously have been bundled with a new version of its iOS operating system, making them available earlier than in previous cycles in response to AI-driven security concerns.
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review, which would allow the government to evaluate their capabilities and vulnerabilities, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing four people familiar with the confidential request.
Oracle shed about 21,000 roles globally in the last year as the US technology giant reshapes its business around artificial intelligence (AI), the firm's latest annual report shows.
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that Apple had agreed to work with Intel to design and build its chips in the United States.
The latest public version of ChatGPT can be made to generate sexualised images or depict scenes of graphic violence with a simple prompt, researchers have told the BBC.
The Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Sam George, has announced significant reductions in MTN Ghana's fibre broadband prices, describing the move as a response to calls for more affordable internet services.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the world’s most far-reaching online restrictions to date.
Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur who has become a central figure in internet culture and amassed a fortune that has made him the world's first trillionaire.
SpaceX has raised $75bn (£56bn) from financial firms ahead of it becoming a publicly traded company on Friday, in what is expected to be the highest-value stock listing in history.
