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Greece to ban under 15s from social media, Apple shares fall due to Foldable concerns
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (616+ words) Tech Digest Claude, the Anthropic AI chatbot, has gone down in a major outage. The company said that users were seeing an "elevated rate of errors" when using Sonnet 4. 6, the model that powers Claude as well as other parts of…...
Online shopping surge: February sales leap 11% ahead of conflict
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (297+ words) British consumers shrugged off the winter blues this February, driving a massive 11. 4% year-on-year increase in the value of online sales. According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), overall retail volumes also rose by 2. 5% compared to…...
Google changes Gmail after 22 years, Power Wash Simulator 2 nominated for two Baftas
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (587+ words) Chris has been a journalist since the 1990s. In addition to editing Tech Digest. tv and Shiny Shiny. tv, he also regularly contributes tech/business articles to The Daily Telegraph and Tech Radar. A passionate swimmer, Chris has his own swimming…...
Open AI encourages four-day work week trials, Samsung Messages discontinued
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (374+ words) Chris has been a journalist since the 1990s. In addition to editing Tech Digest. tv and Shiny Shiny. tv, he also regularly contributes tech/business articles to The Daily Telegraph and Tech Radar. A passionate swimmer, Chris has his own swimming…...
Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot refuses to work this week
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (378+ words) Anthropic's Claude, one of the world's most popular AI assistants, has been plagued by a series of high-profile availability issues this week. The problems reached a critical point on Wednesday, April 8, following a string of "intermittent" outages that have turned…...
Peppa Pig owner hit in cyber attack, Artemis II blasts off on lunar mission!
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (436+ words) Tech Digest The toy and entertainment giant, Hasbro " which owns brands including Peppa Pig, Transformers and Monopoly " has been hacked. Hasbro confirmed "identified unauthorized access to the Company's network" in a filing made to the US government. Parts of the…...
Elon Musk's Space X to go public in $1 trillion share listing
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (308+ words) Elon Musk's Space X is officially heading for the stock market. The aerospace giant, which has remained private since its founding in 2002, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this week, setting the stage for a public…...
Claude Code users hitting limits too early, Oracle cuts thousands of jobs in AI push
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (486+ words) techdigest. tv Be careful what you click on. Miscreants are abusing Whats App messages in a multi-stage attack that delivers malicious Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages, allowing criminals to control victims" machines and access all of their data. The campaign began…...
First lunar mission in over 50 years ready for take off, Nscale faces backlash over Microsoft data centre
1+ week, 3+ day ago (444+ words) Tech Digest Keir Starmer has backed banning addictive social media features in his strongest intervention yet on curbs that could be placed on tech companies, saying the features "shouldn't be permitted. The prime minister said the government was "going to…...
Whats App's new features now on i Phone, Amazon smart home devices on sale from $7
1+ week, 5+ day ago (337+ words) Tech Digest A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X which accused a group of advertisers and major companies of illegally boycotting his platform. Its parent company X Corp alleged in 2024 that firms including food giants Unilever…...