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Apple Diversity Report Highlights Stark Silicon Valley Gender Imbalance

With 80% of tech roles being filled with men but even 65% of all non-tech roles too, it turns out Apple isn't that unusual when it comes to lack of women in IT.

China Is Now Censoring VPNs

China has expanded its censorship programme to include a number of virtual private networks or VPNs.

Clues Point To Canadian As The Ashley Madison Hacker

There are certain “hints” pointing at a certain direction, according to well-known security reseacher Brian Krebs.

Connection Issues Hit BT Broadband Customers

BT was plagued by DNS problems on Saturday morning, with an unknown amount of customers suffering for a few hours across the country.

Database Maintenance Caused Adobe Creative Cloud Downtime

Adobe was hit by a database maintenance issue which triggered an outage of over 24 hours, causing many workers serious problems, and raising questions about the cloud-based suite.

GDS Claims Twitter Handle Change Doesn’t Signal End Of G-Cloud

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has announced that it is changing the Twitter handle of its G-Cloud accounts from @G_Cloud_UK to @GOVUKDigimkt.

Government Quadruples Maximum Prison Sentence For "Internet Trolls"

The current maximum sentence is six months, but in the light of some particularly heinous trolling in recent times, that is being upped substantially.

Has A Smart New Anti-Child Porn Hack Been Found?

Google, Facebook and Twitter intrigued by a possible “game changer," reports The Independent.

HMRC Defends Twitter Tax Queries Decision

HMRC has defended itself against claims that its asking people to “Tweet” tax enquiries to the @HMRCcustomers account was “laughable.”

Instagram Rises While Twitter... Does What, Exactly?

A new report on the state of social media may confirm what everyone's been talking about lately – Twitter is struggling, and Instagram is taking full advantage.

Irate eBay Users Demand Downtime Compensation

Social networks are abuzz with eBay members demanding some form of payback for Tuesday’s prolonged outage.

Nokia CEO Criticises Net Neutrality Activists

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has hit out at net neutrality advocates, claiming that some IP packets are more important than others.

Opinion: The SME Guide To Starting Social

Small businesses are the backbone of Britain’s economy, says CEO and founder of sales automation firm ShopKeep Jason Richelson - but they need to do more to keep up on this front.

Phone And Internet Issues Hit BT Customers

People can cope with a shortage of water supply, lack of food, heating, but take away a man’s internet and you will witness otherworldly rage.

PRC Blocks Social Media As Hong Kong Protests Heat Up

Beijing appears to have blocked access to the social network on the Chinese mainland as it seeks to restrict the flow of images from pro-democracy demonstrations.

Protecting Entities The Size Of Google: How Is It Done?

Stephen Somogyi of Google Safe Browsing gave an amazing keynote speech about how Google goes about protecting its billions of users around the world.

Queen Joins The Twitterati From Major Tech History Exhibition

Her Maj Tweets as she opens the landmark £16m Information Age exhibition at London's Science Museum.

Robots, Collaboration, Wearables And The Cloud: What Is The Future Of Work?

Everyone wants to know what will be possible for mankind in the future, so every five years or so I try and figure out what life in the workplace is going to be like in a decade's time.

Safer Internet Day 2015 Offers Chance To Improve Online Security

A third of British 11-16 year-olds have been targeted by mean or cruel online behaviour; it's time to help stop this, say campaigners.

Samaritan's Twitter Anti-Suicide App Taken Down After Protests

An app designed by Samaritans to detect when Twitter users are suicidal has been removed by the charity - but only to be changed enough to meet concerns.