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• How Trump's White House is helping Big Tech fight back against child safety campaigners

  More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds.

• Men buying illegal erectile dysfunction pills 'risking their health'

  Men who buy illegally-traded erectile dysfunction (ED) pills online have been warned they are gambling with their health - after authorities confiscated more than four million doses last year.

• Trump goes for the jugular of climate legislation

  Donald Trump has just gone for the jugular of climate legislation.

• Do the latest AI resignations actually mean the world is in 'peril'?

  When most people leave their jobs, they send out an email to their colleagues, arrange some drinks at a nearby pub, and that's about it.

• Brain chips have reached 'tipping point', says leading scientist

  Decades after the first demonstration of brain computer interfaces, we have reached a "tipping point" in creating the first reliable devices that can read our thoughts, according to the man who pioneered the technology.

• Instagram use can be 'problematic' but not addictive, says app's chief

  The head of Instagram has told a court he does not believe people can get clinically addicted to social media. 

• 'Extraordinary' beavers deployed to help 'restore nature'

  Half a dozen beavers have been legally released at two sites in Somerset in a bid to restore a river and wetland. 

• Instagram and YouTube 'engineer addiction' in young people, landmark trial hears

  Instagram and YouTube have been accused of "engineer[ing] addiction in children's brains", in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA.

• Post about weight-loss jabs on social media and risk breaking the law

  Social media users have been warned they risk breaking the law by promoting weight-loss jabs, after posts by members of the public endorsing the injections were banned by the advertising regulator for the first time.

• This is what happened when an AI-run vending machine was told 'to maximise your bank balance'

  When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness - including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test.