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Some 60 per cent of children were signed up to social media sites, including 48 per cent of eight-year-olds and 68 per cent of 11-year-olds. Photograph: iStock

Children spend equivalent of 61 days a year online – study

Shauna Bowers
02:07

Almost half of children who use the internet talk to strangers online

Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter, whose account was hacked. Photograph: The New York Times

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has his account briefly hacked

11:30

The hacked account tweeted out a flurry of highly offensive and racist remarks

Apple apologises for allowing contractors to listen to Siri recordings

In an unsigned statement posted to its website Apple said, ‘As a result of our review, we realise we have not been fully living up to our high ideals’. Photograph: iStock

13:48

Apology comes day after 300 Irish employees had contracts ended in tech giant’s Cork facility

Twitter suffers widespread outage

Almost 70,000 reports of an outage were registered by Down Detector

21:54

Almost 70,000 incidents reported globally relating to Twitter access

Twitter to put warning on tweets from politicians who break abuse rules

The warning labels will explain to viewers that the tweet in question breaks Twitter’s rules against harassment and violent threats

08:10

Company will not take message down due to ‘public interest’ but tweet will not appear in searches

Apple designer Jony Ive to leave firm to create his own company

Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, during a product event in San Jose, California, US. Photograph: The New York Times

23:34

The designer was responsible for groundbreaking looks of iMacs and iPhones

Ganley firm behind US telecoms plan backed by Bush ally

Former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, who is promoting a Rivada Networks plan for the US telecoms sector. Photograph: Michael Kovac/Getty Images

Colm Keena
04:00

Former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove promoting Rivada Networks plan

Trump declares national emergency banning technology of ‘foreign adversaries’

Huawei said blocking it from doing business in the United States would hamper the introduction of next-generation communications technology. Photograph: Mauritz Antin/EPA

08:10

Order is apparently aimed at banning Huawei’s equipment from US networks

France, New Zealand launch call to action on extremist online content

French president Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern launched the Christchurch appeal to tackle violent extremist content online. Photograph: Julien De Rosa/EPA

Lara Marlowe
18:41

Freedom of expression ‘does not include freedom to broadcast mass murder’

Facebook bans number of far-right groups, individuals

Facebook: We ban those who proclaim a violent or hateful mission or are engaged in acts of hate or violence. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

12:58

British National Party, Britain First, English Defence League among organisations targeted for being ‘dangerous’

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