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TikTok changed its policies earlier this year on sharing user data with governments as the company negotiated with the Trump Administration to continue operating in the United States. The company added language allowing data sharing with "regulatory authorities, where relevant" beyond law enforcement. Until April 25, 2025, TikTok's website stated the company would notify users before disclosing their data to law enforcement. The policy now says TikTok will inform users only where required by law and changed the timing from before disclosure to if disclosure occurs. The company also softened its language from stating it "rejects data requests from law enforcement authorities" to saying it "may reject" such requests. TikTok declined to answer repeated questions from Forbes about whether it has shared or is sharing private user information with the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The timing difference prevents users from challenging subpoenas before their data is handed over.

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The Tories tabled a series of amendments to new Government legislation that will introduce a soft justice masterplan - but the moves were thrown out in a series of parliamentary votes.

The grooming gangs scandal is one of the darkest episodes in modern British history. What has rightly outraged the public is not just the scale of the abuse by predatory gangs.

Experts say the AWS outage was more than a technical glitch - it was a warning shot about the fragility of global technology infrastructure and the looming disaster if the system truly breaks.

When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

column  "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…

Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, calculated scheme would take 297 years to remove all 59,976 to have come under Labour.

The departure of senior social worker Annie Hudson comes after two victims of child sexual abuse resigned from a liaison committee attached to the inquiry, citing a 'toxic, fearful environment'.

The Competition and Markets Authority said the vet industry has become riddled with hidden fees, confusing pricing and a lack of competition.

Apple's effort to reinvent the iPad by adding a giant foldable screen has hit development hurdles, potentially delaying the planned launch. Bloomberg: The company has been working on the device -- projected to cost around $3,000 -- for several years and had most recently aimed for a 2028 release. But engineering challenges tied to weight, features and display technology have pushed its potential debut to 2029 or later, according to people familiar with the matter. Apple is working with Samsung Display Co. to develop the roughly 18-inch panel for the device, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work isn't public. The screen minimizes the crease seen on foldable displays, matching an approach that Apple is also using with its upcoming foldable iPhone. The iPad project is part of a broader push to bring more innovative devices to market. Apple just introduced its first new iPhone design in years -- the ultrathin $999 Air model -- and is working on everything from smart glasses to a tabletop robot device.

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Slowly but surely, the Budget jigsaw is taking shape - and we now have a clearer picture of the Chancellor's direction of travel.

Stephen Bates, 42, appeared in court today accused of murdering Martin O'Donovan, 47, (pictured) in Woolton, Liverpool, on April 18 this year.

It's been suspected that Meghan Markle could be quietly working on a new project - but according to a royal expert, her business ventures are coming across as 'inconsistent and erratic.'

Footage of the near-half-hour chase in Los Angeles was being broadcast live when the suspect was shown attempting to flee on foot along a busy freeway.

Rise and grind, robot overlords demand

AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT have been pitched for potential productivity gains, but their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.…

David Geffen's estranged boytoy husband has abruptly dropped his bombshell civil lawsuit against the billionaire media mogul. 

Three police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota issued a report after seeing a spherical Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) with six glowing rings that changed colors.

The singer and actress, 33, has been in the spotlight since she was a child but some fans recently began theorizing that she may have undergone a subtle cosmetic procedure.

Amazon employees claimed they were left in the dark during the outage that took down half the internet on Monday, fueling speculations that the tech giant triggered a 'kill switch.'

The Ranch on Sweetwater boasts a stone lodge featuring an original stone fireplace, hand-hewn timber details and a gourmet kitchen with a bar area.

"Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems," writes longtime Slashdot reader jrepin. "Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.5." From the announcement: This fresh new release is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone. The new version brings automatic light-to-dark theme switching based on the time of day. You can configure which global themes it switches between. You can also configure whether you want the wallpaper to switch between its light and dark versions based on the color scheme, the time of day, or be always light or dark. Next up is a "Pinned clipboard items" feature, which lets you save text you use regularly into the clipboard. Breeze-themed windows will now have the same level of roundness in all four corners, even the bottom one. Flatpak Permissions page has been transformed into a general Application Permissions page, where you can configure applications' ability to do things like take screenshots and accept remote control requests. The utility that reads the level of ink or toner from your printer now informs you when it's running low or empty. For the gamers out there, you can now see more relevant info about game controllers on System Settings' Game Controller page. Artists among you can now configure any rotary dials and touch rings on your drawing tablet. Users sensitive to color can now make use of a grayscale color filter, which desaturates or removes color systemwide. Plasma 6.5 implements support for an experimental version of the Wayland picture-in-picture protocol that promises to allow apps like Firefox to eventually display proper PiP windows that stay above others automatically. Support for "overlay planes" was added, which can reduce CPU usage and power draw when displaying full-screen content using a compatible GPU. You can read more about these and many other new features in the Plasma 6.5 release announcement and complete changelog.

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