The planned merger of UK mobile networks O2 and Three should be blocked or severely restricted by the EU to prevent serious damage, the UK competition regulator says.

Harold Goddijn, chief executive and cofounder of TomTom, offers the business advice he wishes he had been given when he started out, for the BBC News series CEO Secrets.

The US Department of Justice is to pursue its request for Apple to help unlock an iPhone that is part of a drugs case in New York.

Digital pioneer Martha Lane Fox tweets that she will be joining the board of Twitter.

A widely distributed scam email that quotes people’s postal addresses links to a dangerous form of ransomware, according to a security researcher.

The producers of an explicit “furry” podcast say they are “deeply sorry” after it was broadcast on several US radio stations in an apparent hack.