The FBI has confessed that the bureau acquired and tested a hacking tool made by NSO Group, but claims it wasn’t used for any actual investigation.
The Israeli surveillance firm, which makes Pegasus software, is hugely controversial after it was revealed its products were misused by governments to hack iPhones.
Confirming reports in the Guardian and New York Times, the FBI says the licence was no longer active and was used for “evaluation only” and there was “no operational use” of Pegasus.
Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta saw their shares plunge more than 20 per cent following the social media company posting a weaker-than-expected forecast.
It’s blaming Apple’s privacy changes and increased competition for users from rivals like TikTok, and again #DeleteFacebook was trending on Twitter on Thursday.
New analysis of huge salt deposits on Mars indicates ponds of liquid water existed for about a billion years longer than previously thought.
The discovery was made at Caltech by Dr Ellen Leask using data from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
We spoke to Bethany Ehlmann, professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and a research scientist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab, who was Dr Leask’s PhD supervisor.
Plus, the dodgier-looking the website, the more social media users often trust source as ‘authentic’, warns London AI misinformation firm. Ocean archaeology groups are at odds over a shipwreck found off the US east coast - is it the remains of Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour? And listen to this insect-sized robot flap its wings ahead of search-and-rescue training.
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