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
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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…
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.
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…
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…
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…