I pulled out before giving any bank or card numbers, but how can I protect myself now? Today I was subjected to an attempted fraud. The fraudsters made contact using Facebook Messenger and the identity of one of my friends, a former colleague. They persuaded me to believe that I had been a winner in …
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Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEO Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the …
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The attempt to bring big tech to heel promised much but, three years on, pleases no one – it’s the Brexit disaster writ large The online safety bill was tabled for discussion in parliament on Monday, resuscitating it from its deathbed and adding yet another chapter to this controversial attempt to bring the internet to …
Cryptocurrency exchange founder pledges to testify ‘once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened’ The disgraced billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has said he wants to testify before Congress about what caused the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange he founded – but first he wants to fully understand the chain of events and isn’t sure how …
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(Bad Viking; Iceberg Interactive; PC, Switch)Plants can cure or kill in this atmospheric puzzle game In Strange Horticulture you enter the tangy murk of a rare plant shop of the same name, inherited from your recently deceased uncle. It’s in Undermere, a fictionalised version of Windermere in the Lake District. A few specimens – all …
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When you’re infected by Pegasus, spies effectively hold a clone of your phone – we’re fighting back I was warned in August 2020. A source told me to meet him at six o’clock at night in an empty parking lot in San Salvador. He had my number, but he contacted me through a mutual acquaintance …
Relatives of Molly Russell and other children support changes proposed as part of online safety bill Bereaved families are calling for easier access to the social media histories of deceased children, supporting amendments to the online safety bill. The changes have been proposed by Beeban Kidron, a crossbench peer, as the bill returns to parliament …
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Campaigners concerned that ‘same racist technology used to repress Uyghurs is being marketed in Britain’ A Chinese security camera company has been advertising ethnicity recognition features to British and other European customers, even while it faces a ban on UK operations over allegations of involvement in ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. In a brochure published on …
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Flagship internet regulation has survived four PMs, shifting its focus to child protection and free speech The online safety bill, the government’s flagship internet regulation, returns to parliament on Monday, after a five-month delay prompted by Conservative party factional warfare threatened to kill it off. The bill was postponed until after the summer recess in …
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Live and on-demand pay-TV delivered over wifi to an easy-to-use box is let down by some crummy apps Sky has taken its satellite-free pay-TV service from the Glass television and shoved it into a tiny streaming box that you can plug into your existing kit and hook up to wifi. The Sky Stream box subscription …
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