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It used the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to make the demand - but Apple calls privacy a 'fundamental human right' and sources say it may stop offering encrypted storage in the UK.

The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Google's overhaul of Chrome's extension architecture continues to pose problems for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools. [...] While Google's desire to improve the security, privacy, and performance of the Chrome extension platform is reasonable, its approach -- which focuses on code and permissions more than human oversight -- remains a work-in-progress that has left extension developers frustrated. Alexei Miagkov, senior staff technology at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who oversees the organization's Privacy Badger extension, told The Register, "Making extensions under MV3 is much harder than making extensions under MV2. That's just a fact. They made things harder to build and more confusing." Miagkov said with Privacy Badger the problem has been the slowness with which Google addresses gaps in the MV3 platform. "It feels like MV3 is here and the web extensions team at Google is in no rush to fix the frayed ends, to fix what's missing or what's broken still." According to Google's documentation, "There are currently no open issues considered a critical platform gap," and various issues have been addressed through the addition of new API capabilities. Miagkov described an unresolved problem that means Privacy Badger is unable to strip Google tracking redirects on Google sites. "We can't do it the correct way because when Google engineers design the [chrome.declarativeNetRequest API], they fail to think of this scenario," he said. "We can do a redirect to get rid of the tracking, but it ends up being a broken redirect for a lot of URLs. Basically, if the URL has any kind of query string parameters -- the question mark and anything beyond that -- we will break the link." Miagkov said a Chrome developer relations engineer had helped identify a workaround, but it's not great. Miagkov thinks these problems are of Google's own making -- the company changed the rules and has been slow to write the new ones. "It was completely predictable because they moved the ability to fix things from extensions to themselves," he said. "And now they need to fix things and they're not doing it."

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Tiberius, a Tawny owl, was found starving on a military barracks parade ground in Plymouth by animal lover Mark Foden, of Devon, in June 2024.

Rachel Brosnahan commanded attention while rocking the red carpet at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California on Friday. She wore a stunning satin gown.

A study of more than 1.2million women found that the sisters of women who have complicated pregnancies may find themselves at greater risk of cardiovascular disease.

The Conservative leader hit out at Sir Keir Starmer who she said 'couldn't care less' about protecting single-sex spaces.

Government planning inspectors rejected a multi-billion-pound project on the Welsh island of Anglesey, saying it 'could adversely affect Welsh language and culture'.

There were nearly 84,000 phone theft offences recorded in the 12 months to July last year - nearly double the 45,800 five years previously.

With typical ill grace, Ed Miliband has conceded he will not block the proposed expansion of Heathrow airport.

Interior designer and glamorous socialite Amanda Lennon is still trying to piece together the series of events that resulted in her son's tragic death in Bali last year.

The Holiday actress, 52, is set to return to our screens in Netflix 's new movie Back In Action as part of an all-star cast alongside Glenn Close , 77, and Jamie Foxx , 57.

MyAllahJar.com's crude TikTok campaign saw the company pose as the grief-stricken older sibling of one the children killed by Axel Rudakubana in July last year.

OpenAI says it's investigating after a hacker claimed to have stolen login credentials for 20 million OpenAI accounts and advertised the data for sale on a dark web forum. Though security researchers doubt on the legitimacy of the breach, the AI company stated that it takes the claims seriously, advising users to enable two-factor authentication and stay vigilant against phishing attempts. Decrypt reports: Daily Dot reporter Mikael Thalan wrote on X that he found invalid email addresses in the supposed sample data: "No evidence (suggests) this alleged OpenAI breach is legitimate. At least two addresses were invalid. The user's only other post on the forum is for a stealer log. Thread has since been deleted as well." "We take these claims seriously," the spokesperson said, adding: "We have not seen any evidence that this is connected to a compromise of OpenAI systems to date."

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Holly Willoughby has reportedly cashed in the equivalent of £40million for every minute that she appeared on Netflix's Celebrity Bear Hunt.

If the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, making its way through Parliament, fails to make clear if it will apply to teachers already in classrooms, it could lead to job losses, Tories warn.

Alongside Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs tight end has reportedly been planning a party for the ages if his team emerges victorious against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Donald Trump is serving some payback Joe Biden's way by revoking his successor and predecessor's security clearance after Biden did the same to him in 2021.

This was the 'shopping list' of groceries she kept in her kitchen cupboard that helped propel Margaret Thatcher to the leadership of the Conservative Party , 50 years ago next week.

Figures show the average university chief has enjoyed a pay rise of £40,000 in the past three years alone, taking the mean salary for a vice-chancellor to £340,000.