BBCA Stitch puppet (left) with Richard North from Wow Stuff at the DreamToys eventToy sales have fallen for a third year in a row as family budgets are squeezed ...

Julie BolthouseJulie Bolthouse is opposing new data centre planning applications in Northern VirginiaEnvironmental campaigner Julie Bolthouse points out that Northern Virginia has the world’s largest concentration of data centres. ...

Google has signed a deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres.The company says the ...

Facebook-owner Meta must minimise the amount of people's data it uses for personalised advertising, the EU’s highest court says.The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) ruled in ...

The crisis in the Middle East continues to escalate, with increased missile attacks between Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Israel. BBC Verify’s Richard Irvine-Brown has been looking at what the ...

Getty ImagesViolent crime is one of the key issues in the US election, with research suggesting that many Americans believe it is on the rise.But the latest FBI crime ...

LinkedIn has suspended the use of UK user data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models after a regulator raised concerns.The career-focused social networking site, owned by Microsoft, quietly ...

Data centres in the UK are to be classified as critical national infrastructure, joining the emergency services, finance and healthcare systems, and energy and water supplies.It means they would ...

Personal details of Ukrainian refugees and the families offering to house them have been exposed online in serious data breach, a council has confirmed.Angus Council said it had launched ...

41 minutes agoBy John Campbell, BBC News NI economics and business editor • Clodagh Rice, BBC News NI business correspondentBBCConnor McCandless says the construction sector is "typifyed by ongoing uncertainty"Northern Ireland’s economy grew strongly ...

NHS England has confirmed its patient data managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3 June.Qilin, a Russian cyber-criminal group, shared almost ...

A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive data stolen from an NHS blood testing company.Qilin has been trying to extort money ...