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Facebook was warned by security researchers that attackers could abuse its phone number and email search facility to harvest people's data.

On Wednesday, the firm said "malicious actors" had been harvesting profiles for years by abusing the search tool.

It said anybody that had not changed their privacy settings after adding their phone number

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Leading AI experts have boycotted a South Korean university over a partnership with weapons manufacturer Hanwha Systems.

More than 50 AI researchers from 30 countries signed a letter expressing concern about its

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DroneImage copyrightPAImage caption Drones could help plug the current gap in inspections, say campaigners

Squadrons of drones should be deployed to locate and penalise farmers who let soil run off their fields, a report will say.

A coalition of campaigners complains that the Environment Agency can only check soil on

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When engineer Lukasz Cejrowski finally saw the world's largest wind turbine blades installed on a prototype tower in 2016, he stood in front of it and took a selfie. Obviously.

"It was amazing," he says, recalling the moment with a laugh. "The feeling of happiness - 'Yes, it works, it's mounted.'"

Those blades, made by

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