Tech

YouTube Restricts 'creepy' Videos Aimed At Children

The site will now restrict the availability of videos that appear to be aimed at children but contain adult themes. Read more

Phishing Helps Hackers Hijack Google Accounts

Phishing attacks help hackers grab almost 250,000 log-in details for Google accounts every week, finds research Read more

Now Computers Are Writing Perfectly Acceptable Pop Songs

Taryn Southern's new single was written by artificial intelligence software. Is this the future? Read more

Government Urged To Act Over Computer Science GCSEs

More than half of England's secondary schools did not offer the subject in 2015-16, a report has found. Read more

Talking Pants

We love shopping online for clothes but often have to return them. Can tech help make things easier? Read more

TripAdvisor To Flag Hotels With Reports Of Sexual Assault

The tags were introduced after TripAdvisor was accused of deleting posts describing sexual assaults. Read more

Twitter Halts 'broken' Verified-profile System

The site had faced complaints that white-supremacist accounts were being verified. Read more

FBI Seeks To Unlock Texas Shooter's IPhone

Apple has offered its help in getting at any data held on the iPhone of Devin Kelley. Read more

Vodafone Plans UK Fibre Broadband Roll-out

The project will see gigabit speed cables reaching up to five million properties across the UK by 2025. Read more

Reddit Bans 'involuntarily Celibate" Community

'Involuntarily celibate' men congregated in a 41,000-strong corner of Reddit to share misogynistic abuse. Read more

Harry Potter Game Is Pokemon Go Creator's Next Trick

An augmented reality smartphone game based on the young wizard's adventures is planned by Niantic. Read more

Humans To Vet Facebook Revenge Porn Photos

Facebook's community operations team, not algorithms, will view photos sent to combat revenge porn. Read more

Code Bug Freezes $150m Of Ethereum Crypto-cash

A novice programmer accidentally locks away about $150m of a crypto-currency called Ethereum. Read more

Trump Tweets

Donald Trump has kept up his tweeting in China - even though Twitter is officially blocked there. Read more

Hackers Redirect Schools To Islamic State Video

800 school websites in the US were temporarily redirected to a video Read more