Nearly one in five of the most visited sites on the internet are being blocked by the adult content filters installed on Britain's broadband and mobile networks. A Porsche car dealership, two feminist websites, a blog on the Syrian War and the Guido Fawkes political site are among the domains that have fallen foul of the recently installed filters. The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for digital rights, surveyed the 100,000 most popular sites as ranked by digital marketing research firm Alexa, and found that 19,000 of them were blocked by at least one fixed line or mobile internet service …

The latest Ofcom report into how British people consume news shows, unsurprisingly, a rise in the numbers using digital devices. According to its research, some 41% of people say they access news online, inching it ahead of the number who do so through newsprint newspapers, at 40%. A year ago, the online total was 32% while newspapers were, as now, 40%. The online news audience, which includes people who use either websites or apps, is also greater than that for radio, which is favoured by 36% (it was 35% last year).

The Sun and Daily Mail have condemned the effect the Leveson Report recommendations had on their reporting of the Rolf Harris sex abuse scandal. In an editorial, the newspaper described how Harris's lawyers cited the Leveson Report in trying to stop the paper from publishing any story, arguing that there was no "public interest" in reporting that he had been spoken to be officers.

One of Robin Thicke's social media advisers, however, seemed to think it was a good idea to allow the singer - who has been at the centre of a barrage of online criticism and accusations of misogyny ever since the release of his Blurred Lines video last summer - to participate in a Q&A session on Twitter with VH1, using the hashtag #AskThicke.

From Tuesday, Europeans traveling around the union will pay a lot less for mobile data, voice and SMS. The most drastic cut will be for data, with the retail price cap dropping from 45 euro cents ($0.62) per megabyte to 20 cents ($0.27). This represents the last stage in the grading-down of data roaming premiums within the European Union (there were no retail caps on roaming data before mid-2012, when a 70 cent cap was introduced). It's far from being the end of the story, though - a major package of telecoms reform that's almost been signed into law will …

The agreement will see Alcorn take on the position from August 1 with responsibility for covering key Melbourne and Victorian issues, and large national stories. Alcorn will be supported by Oliver Milman in the Guardian Australia's new Melbourne office, and another new recruit, Melissa Davey.

BBC has appointed Matthew Postgate as chief technology officer, where he will handle delivery and management of broadcast and enterprise technology infrastructure. Postgate is currently the BBC's Controller of R&D where he is responsible for a number of teams working on innovation, internet technologies and operations.

A new website has been launched by Google to help Internet users understand more about cookies, files stored on computers that remember websites visited to help targeted ads find the right place. The site, CookieChoices.org, also provides a code that website developers can implement into their own websites, which will notify visitors when they are being tracked and what information cookies can reveal about their browsing habits.