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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…

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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…

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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…

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‘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…

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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…

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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…

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‘Bedlam’ in UK as planes and trains disrupted by global IT outage

Passengers face long check-in queues at airports and rail cancellations after problem affects Microsoft Windows…

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IT outage: banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCs

Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations has affected major companies, including Sky News UK, Gatwick…

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Microsoft IT outage linked to cyber security firm Crowdstrike hits airlines, railways and media outlets globally – live news

Banks, airlines, railways, telecoms companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline…

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Eco homes near the sea for sale in Great Britain – in pictures

From a Grand Designs-style property nestled underground to a remote timber-framed home on a hillside…

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