Month: June 2021

Apple’s new ‘private relay’ feature to be withheld in China

Privacy protection is latest effort by the company to cut down tracking of users by advertisers and other third parties Apple’s new privacy feature designed to obscure a user’s web browsing from internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China, Saudi Arabia or Belarus, the company has said. It was one of …

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart review – an unbelievably gorgeous sci-fi caper

PlayStation 5; Insomniac Games/SonyThis Star Wars-influenced action game about two furry aliens elevates the spectacle and fun to a new dimension At several points during my time with Ratchet & Clank – after landing on a new planet whose peculiar rocky landscape stretched off far into the distance, for instance, or while I was zipping …

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Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services

It is not clear if UK government had alternative that would have allowed services to be back online promptly This morning’s 45-minute internet outage which knocked out the Gov.UK domain – as well as a string of publishers and other websites – cannot easily be dismissed as an isolated event. It also demonstrates a lack …

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How an ‘edge cloud’ error caused Tuesday’s internet outage

Problem at content delivery network provider Fastly is part of growing need for speed online Massive internet outage hits websites including the Guardian For 45 minutes in the UK morning, a significant chunk of the web did not work. People trying to visit a huge array of websites, from the Guardian through Gov.uk to Reddit, …

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Massive internet outage hits websites including Amazon, gov.uk and Guardian

Technical problem traced to network run by Fastly brings some sites down entirely A massive internet outage has affected websites including the Guardian, the UK government’s website gov.uk, Amazon and Reddit. The issue made the sites inaccessible to many users for more than an hour on Tuesday morning. The outage has been traced to a …

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10 kitchen gadgets you really don’t need – from garlic presses to spiralizers

The average household has more than £300 worth of unused cookery kit. Here, experts offer tips on how to make bread, ice-cream and other delicious foods without fancy contraptions Jacob Kennedy’s home kitchen is full of things he rarely uses: a sushi mat, a coconut grater, a pestle and mortar, even a borrowed turbotière (a …

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How the FBI and Australian police gained a front seat view of underworld workings in 90 countries

By cracking the ANoN app, police in Australia and the US struck a blow to organised crime, resulting in hundreds of arrests. Now, an FBI affidavit reveals how authorities were able to pull it off It was mid-2018 when a convicted narcotics importer met with FBI agents from San Diego and made them a tantalising …

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Hundreds arrested after Australian police and FBI crack underworld messaging app

Australian prime minister says global police sting ‘struck heavy blow against organised crime’ Hundreds of suspected organised crime figures in 18 countries have been arrested after US and Australian agencies hacked into an app used by criminals and read millions of encrypted messages, Australian officials have said. The operation by Australian police and the FBI …

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Revert to type: how Goa’s last typewriter repair shop defied the digital age

Luis Abreu once thrived on servicing India’s many typewriters but computers are eclipsing his trade In Goa’s capital, Panaji, on Rua São Tomé, not far from the main post office, is a shop that offers packaging services. For a small fee, they will wrap your parcel in a sheet of muslin sewn with precise stitches …

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How to take a good photograph of the moon on your phone or camera with the right settings

Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photographing the moon When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the moon is really challenging to get a great photo of. Two reasons: it is very far away …

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