Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants feature

Black-and-white photography allows you to discover the ordinary picture anew. Color falls away, and the details that might have been easy to overlook become the leading characters in an image. You’ve got the contrast, the line of a shadow, the roughness of a wall, or the face of a person standing out.  The monochrome conversion simplifies cluttered compositions and provides a stronger visual mood.

A new interactive tool has revealed the surprising famous figures who were alive at the same time.

HMD India CEO Ravi Kunwar said rising memory and component costs, partly driven by AI demand, could keep smartphone prices elevated through the end of 2027. The company expects price pressure to be particularly significant in India's sub- ₹20,000 segment.

The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.

An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests could be one of the most token-efficient open models in its class. Reflection AI on Monday debuted Beam, its first open-weight model built for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks. The US firm said Beam was “competitive” with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai – also known as Zhipu AI – and was “approaching” Alibaba...

A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October 5, rated it 9.3 out of 10, and

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. "To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as the result of a security failure ​

Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.

Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company's lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The ministry has told people never to

Even as geopolitical frictions and market swings unsettle venture investors, Hong Kong-founded Hermitage Capital is sticking to a global strategy of backing frontier technology companies wherever they emerge. With a US$1.5 billion war chest that is 80 per cent in US dollars, with the remainder in renminbi, the private equity firm is ramping up investments across artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics, mainly in the US and China, capitalising on a market turnaround triggered by the...

A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch a script payload into the browser cache disguised as a PNG file," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X.

The FBI has issued an urgent warning to Americans with a phone about scams that have tricked victims into handing over more than $1.6 billion.