Elon Musk is seeking to end his $44-billion bid to buy Twitter, alleging multiple breaches of the agreement.
The announcement is the latest twist in a long-running saga after the world's richest person decided to buy Twitter in April.
Musk said he had backed out because Twitter failed to provide enough information on the number of spam and fake accounts.
Twitter says it plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement.
"The Twitter Board is committed to...
Police investigating the assassination of Japan's ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe have said the suspect held a grudge against a "specific organization."
The alleged gunman, named as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, apparently believed Abe was part of the group and shot him for that reason, they said, without naming the group, the BBC reports.
Abe died in hospital on Friday morning after being shot while speaking at a political campaign event.
Yamagami has admitted shooting him with a homemade...
Boris Johnson has promised his cabinet he will not use his remaining time as prime minister to make "major changes of direction."
The PM has caved in to pressure from ministers to quit as Tory leader but wants to stay in #10 Downing Street until the party chooses who should replace him, the BBC reports.
His collapse in support has prompted some Tories to urge him to go now.
But a newly promoted cabinet minister says Johnson...
The heads of U.K. and U.S. security services have made an unprecedented joint appearance to warn of the threat from China.
FBI director Christopher Wray said China was the "biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security," and had interfered in politics, including recent elections, the BBC reports.
MI5 head Ken McCallum said his service had more than doubled its work against Chinese activity in the last three years, and would be doubling it again.
MI5...
Apple has announced a new security feature to protect high-risk users from spyware cyber-attacks. Lockdown Mode will be available in the autumn with the next operating system across all of the company's iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
The setting blocks certain functions and prevents unknown users from calling.
It comes after Apple devices owned by activists, politicians, and journalists were infected with spyware.
Apple is currently suing Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, accusing it of targeting victims in 150...
Illnesses such as the common cold and the flu have become endemic in human populations; everyone gets them every now and then, but for most people, they aren't especially harmful. COVID-19 will transition to endemic status at some point — but when?
Possibly within two years, according to a Yale study published July 5 in the journal PNAS Nexus.
To develop a better understanding of when and how COVID-19 might become endemic, Yale researchers turned to rats,...
(Tufts University) – Less than 7 percent of the U.S. adult population has good cardiometabolic health, a devastating health crisis requiring urgent action, according to research led by a team from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
Researchers evaluated U.S. residents across five components of health: levels of blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol, adiposity (overweight and obesity), and presence or absence of cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, etc.). They found...
The British Army says it is investigating after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked, the BBC reports.
Videos on cryptocurrency using images of billionaire businessman Elon Musk appeared on the YouTube channel.
The Twitter feed appeared to retweet several posts related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – a type of digital asset held on a blockchain.
The Army confirmed the "breach", saying it took information security "extremely seriously" and was resolving the issue. Both accounts have been...
With crypto markets in turmoil, files seen by the BBC suggest an unlikely Bitcoin investor may have also lost a fortune – "the missing cryptoqueen", Dr. Ruja Ignatova.
The scammer disappeared in 2017 as her cryptocurrency OneCoin was at its height – attracting billions from investors. Fraud and money-laundering charges in the U.S. have led to her becoming one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives.
The Oxford-educated entrepreneur told investors she had created the "Bitcoin killer",...
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals and ore deposits, predict possible characteristics of future life, and aid the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life.
In twin papers published today by American Mineralogist and sponsored in part by NASA,...
