In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, which Mark Zuckerberg has openly billed as a rival, claiming the company has violated Twitter’s “intellectual property rights”. […]

Government loses legal challenge after resisting supplying unredacted WhatsApps, notebooks and diaries UK politics live – latest updates Ministers have been ordered to hand over an unredacted cache of documents including Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries to the Covid inquiry after losing a legal challenge. Government insiders said […]

Labour leader will argue against snobbery of ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ education, saying young people need both Britain needs to shatter its snobbish “class ceiling” that prevents children from getting ahead, Keir Starmer is to argue in a speech setting out his fifth and final “mission” aimed at removing barriers to […]

Talks on returning as an associate member after Brexit row are close to agreement, say diplomatic sources The UK is on the brink of doing a deal to return to the EU’s £85bn science research programme Horizon Europe. Diplomatic sources say negotiations to become an associate member will continue over […]

Mark Zuckerberg targets Elon Musk’s troubled platform with new app from Meta that’s closely modelled on Twitter Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has launched Threads, its rival to Twitter, with the app seeking to woo users from Elon Musk’s troubled platform through an offer of lengthier posts, a handful of celebrity backers […]

Collective profit comes on back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to Oxfam and ActionAid The world’s 722 biggest companies collectively are making more than $1tn a year (£780bn) in windfall profits on the back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to research by […]

Damning report highlights lack of control over billions in spending and no stockpile plan for future pandemic Britain’s lead public health body has a staggering lack of control over billions of pounds of spending, and there is no plan for stockpiling vaccines or personal protective equipment (PPE) for a future […]