Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules
Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.
MONDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2025, 22:28
Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.

Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google’s models.
The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.
Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google’s competitors. Will it put the company at the top of the A.I. leaderboard?

Gui Junmin froze his former spouse as a sign of his devotion – but it’s now emerged he is dating again.
With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons.

While every self-aware doctor knows no one is an expert on everything, the average person turning to the internet cannot distinguish evidence from gloss
One of my children is irate at my deletion of an important school email. I claim that so many useless emails rain into my inbox that some useful ones will surely be missed. This excuse attracts zero sympathy but prompts me to comb through the...

The company says it is working to working to understand the full impact of a problem which “impacts multiple customers.”
A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s at stake is history itself.

This year’s flu season has begun more than a month earlier than usual, with a mutated strain spreading widely among younger people and expected to drive a wave of hospital admissions as it reaches the elderly. Science editor Ian Sample speaks to Madeleine Finlay about what we know so far and Prof Ed Hutchinson of the University of Glasgow explains how people can best protect themselves and...
European policymakers are crafting changes to scale back and simplify landmark rules for A.I. and data privacy, in a shift from an aggressive regulatory period.
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.

Joseph O’Connor, from Liverpool, hacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020 to promote a Bitcoin scam.
Escaping zipties, hiring bodyguards and other practical lessons in self-defense for crypto traders, after a series of gruesome crimes spooked the community.
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
The kiosks, which resemble conventional A.T.M.s and convert cash into virtual currencies, are increasingly under scrutiny as a tool for scammers.
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.

The female-focused TikTok channel was dubbed “patronising” and “sexist” by social media users.

“It’s fantastic because it’s eco-friendly…We’re not burning any gases,” says Terrence Bridges.

The BBC looks into whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help people who struggle when clothes are oddly sized.

Shiona McCallum meets an AI startup working to fix erratic clothing sizes in fashion.