
UK VPN uptake rockets after age verification rules
Who didn't see that one coming?
The UK is seeing a huge rise in VPN use after the government bought in "child protection" laws.

Italian AI cult leader jailed after victim ditches chemo
Quantum physics, bogus cures, and "miraculous" AI Marie
A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI.

Zuckerberg ducks another courtroom grilling
Meta settles shareholder privacy suit without answers
Mark Zuckerberg and a group of past and present Meta bosses have wriggled out of an ugly $8 billion privacy trial, cutting a last-minute deal before the second day of testimony.

Zuckerberg’s FTC dodge flops
Meta boss tried a bargain-bin fix for a $30 billion problem.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to evade an antitrust lawsuit with a lowball settlement offer has hit a brick wall.

Meta's Llama 4 stampede begins
Scout, Maverick and a monster called Behemoth
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled four new Llama models, describing it as a “milestone for Meta AI and open source” in a slick video posted to Instagram and Facebook this weekend.

Meta’s book censorship efforts backfire
Mr Zuckerburg met Barbra Streisand
Meta has proven that nothing sells a book faster than a censorship attempt.

Meta wanted to hand censorship keys to Chinese
You know censorship better than us
Meta was so desperate to get into China’s massive market that it was willing to hand over the censorship reins to the Chinese Communist Party and muzzle political dissenters, according to new whistleblower complaint.

Facebook admits censoring Linux was a mistake
We have been forgetting who the good guys are lately
Facebook’s bizarre censorship of Linux groups and the wholesome DistroWatch magazine was a mistake, the social notworking outfit has admitted.

“Everything I say is leaked”
Zuckerberg moans at leaked meeting
At an all-hands meeting inside Meta on Thursday, the company's co-founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said he was increasingly careful about what he said internally because there were more leaks than in in a Welsh soup.

Meta surrenders and gives Trump $25 million
Wrong to suspend his account over that little insurrection business
Social notworking outfit Meta has written a $25 million cheque to Donald Trump to apologise for freezing his account over the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol.