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A British insurer reports that the number of claims made by consumers last year due to accidents and damage caused by the use of VR glasses increased by 68 percent in five years.Insurer Aviva tells The Guardian Last year there was a 31…

The FBI has acquired the controversial Pegasus spy software. The US Federal Police Department purchased a limited license from developer NSO Group "to test and evaluate the software."In an email that The Guardian has seen, the FBI…

Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Development said on Sunday that it has evidence that Russia is behind the recent hacker attack. That attack shut down several government sites in Ukraine. Russia still denies any involvement.All kinds of…

The British privacy watchdog wants to talk to Facebook's parent company about the child safety of the Oculus Quest 2 headset. According to child safety experts, the headset has no parental supervision functions and thus violates the child…

'Prominent' Twitter users get a higher level of protection against trolls, for example, and complaints made related to those users are dealt with more quickly by moderators. Twitter confirmed this to Bloomberg.The system, called Project…

The British privacy watchdog ICO has imposed a fine of 590,000 euros on the British government. In 2019, the government had accidentally published a list of the addresses of 1097 people.The ICO writes that the government has "failed to…

Facebook and Instagram are going to make it impossible to advertise on categories such as ethnicity, religious or political affiliations and sexual orientations. Parent company Meta is implementing that ban after researchers and activists…

Oculus is adding the Space Sense feature to its Quest VR goggles with a software update. In this way, users see objects or people in their VR glasses that penetrate the predefined Guardian. Android notifications are also visible from now…

Moscow residents can now pay via a facial scan if they want to use the metro in the city. They need to link a photo, bank account and metro subscription for Face Pay via the mobile app.Face Pay has been activated at more than 240 metro…

The expiration of Let's Encrypt's outdated digital root security certificate DST Root CA X3 caused failures and errors for several million users. An unknown number of services, websites and apps were not provided with a new certificate in…