Month: July 2024
Rachel Reeves pledges ‘big bang’ for private pension funds
Chancellor says industry taskforce will allow retirement scheme managers to increase pension pots by up…
Liberating and a huge pain: my week with a Nokia ‘dumbphone’
Using the reissued 3210 model left our reporter very frustrated – but less mobile-obsessed and…
Crowdstrike tells Australian government it is ‘close to rolling out automatic fix’ after global outage
Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says systems should soon be back online but business groups…
Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out Campaigners…
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content…
Microsoft IT outage: criminals seeking to take advantage of global outage, CrowdStrike warns – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here There is…
‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?
For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But…
Summer holiday childcare in UK now costs £1,000 a child, research finds
Parents or carers in full-time work said to be ‘dreading’ expense, and sum may be…
Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband
From January 2025 providers will have to tell customers upfront in ‘pounds and pence’ about…
Bitcoin Tops $66K as Cryptos Rally Amid Global IT Outage; Solana’s SOL Leads Altcoins
Friday’s crypto rally defied past days’ correlation with U.S equities, which continued their losing streak.
