Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter threatens legal action over Meta’s Threads
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application. On Wednesday, Instagram parent company Meta introduced Threads, a text-based companion to Instagram that resembles Twitter and other text-based social platforms. Just hours later, a lawyer for…
Cybercriminals loot over $600 million from crypto projects in first half 2023
According to analysis from the Atlas VPN team, various crypto projects and their clients lost a whopping $666,354,302 to 125 cyberattacks in the first half of 2023. Nevertheless, compared to the same period last year, crypto-related cyber incidents and losses are declining. The Binance Smart Chain (BSC) ecosystem experienced the highest number of incidents, totaling 30,…
Tech Digest daily roundup: 10 million sign up to Twitter rival Threads in 7 hours
Threads, the long-awaited Twitter rival from Meta, has launched - with 10 million people signing up in the first few hours. Built by the firm's Instagram team, it's billed as a home for "sharing text updates and joining public conversations". Its release couldn't be more aggressively timed, coming days after another controversial move by Twitter's incendiary…
Britain one of the most expensive countries in world for broadband, claims report
The UK is ranked 73rd for broadband cost in the world, analysis from Broadband Genie has found. A high-speed internet connection costs £30.84, which puts the UK behind the likes of Portugal, Singapore, Austria, Japan, Finland, and other economic powerhouses such as China, France, India, Brazil, and Germany. Looking into Europe, the UK has the…
New car market grew 25.8% in June, but private EV sales stall
UK sales of new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were up 39.4 per cent in June, but the growth was driven by fleet users who receive substantial Benefit-in-Kind tax breaks, rather than private buyers. The new car market grew 25.8% in June with 177,266 vehicles registered, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter rival Threads won’t launch in EU this week
Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter rival will not launch this week in the EU as the billionaire grapples with strict regulations in the single bloc. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the chief regulator in the EU which governs Meta, said the company had confirmed that it did not plan to launch its Threads app within the union at first.…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Meta to launch ‘Twitter-Killer’ app, Threads
Facebook owner Meta is launching its new app to rival Twitter and says it will go live on Thursday. The app, which is called Threads and is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store, will be linked to Instagram. Screengrabs show a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter. Meta describes Threads as a "text-based…
Virgin Media and Hubbub launch fund to tackle digital waste
George Clarke and Dermot Jones, Project Manager at the Fixing Factory, mark the launch of Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub’s Time After Time Fund. The fund will award a share of £500,000 to projects which tackle e-waste and support digital inclusion. As 3.4 million homeowners confess to throwing broken or unwanted…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google claims ‘quantum computing breakthrough’
Left: Artist's rendition of the Sycamore processor mounted in the cryostat. (Full Res Version; Forest Stearns, Google AI Quantum Artist in Residence) Right: Photograph of the Sycamore processor. (Full Res Version; Erik Lucero, Research Scientist and Lead Production Quantum Hardware) Google has developed a quantum computer that instantly makes calculations that would…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Virgin Galactic rocket plane begins service
Italian members of the team aboard Unity hold up their country's flag in space. Image: Virgin Galactic It's taken just shy of 20 years but Sir Richard Branson has finally begun commercial operations with his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, Unity. The vehicle soared high over the New Mexico desert on Thursday…