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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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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.

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BitForex to Open for Withdrawals Following Chinese Police Investigation

Cryptocurrency exchange BitForex said it will open for withdrawals following a five-month outage spurred by…

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Ryan Selkis Quits as Messari CEO Following Inflammatory Tweets

“This week was the first week in 6.5 years that my politics and rhetoric put…

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A Second Look at Third-Party Token Allegations in the SEC’s Case Against Binance

Last week, a federal judge convened a hearing for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s…

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