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Bug bounties have made these hackers millionairesBug bounties have made these hackers millionaires

Bug bounty programs continue to grow as businesses and even federal governments seek out the help of white hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in their software.

The bug bounty platform HackerOne, which helps connect companies to ethical hackers, has grown to include a community of 600,000 white hackers who managed to cash in a record $40m in

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The "appropriateness" of Google's sister company's plan for a "digital city" in Toronto has been questioned.

A panel set up to scrutinise Sidewalk Labs's plan has asked it to explain what the benefits would be for citizens

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One million households in the West Midlands will be able to access to ultrafast gigabit-capable broadband from March, Virgin media says.

The company says the switch-on of its gigabit services is the largest in the UK, and will be available in Coventry, Birmingham and the surrounding areas.

Gigabit technology allows for

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YouTube is not a "public forum" that must guarantee users' rights to free speech, a US court has ruled.

The case involved right-wing channel PragerU, which argued YouTube was infringing its rights by "censoring" its conservative views.

But judges decided that the US constitution's First Amendment did not apply to YouTube,

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There is a rising din in the oceans - and whales are having to struggle to compete with it.

"They're spending more time or energy trying to communicate… by essentially screaming at each other - what we would have to d

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Clearview AI, a start-up with a database of more than three billion photographs from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, has been hacked.

The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its

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