‘Sim-swap’ fraud has affected three readers – and dealing with their mobile phone company hasn’t been easy What some O2 customers may have wanted for Christmas was a phone number, since long-cherished ones have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2’s customer services can be as hard …
O2 was tricked into transferring my number to fraudsters. Could I have it back? Read More »
Watch Duty – which began in California and has expanded across 14 states – alerted the public to more than 9,000 wildfires in 2024 Cristy Thomas began to panic as she called 911 for the second time on a warm October day but couldn’t get through. She anxiously watched the plume of black smoke pouring …
World’s richest man has been voicing support for Germany’s far-right AfD party while insulting its current leaders When the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was asked in an interview about the barrage of insults being directed at him and other German leaders by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, his reply was: “Don’t feed the troll.” …
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The SpaceX chief’s powerful new system is set to slash the cost of missions, leaving Nasa in the dust It was one of the most striking technological events of the year. On 13 October, Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, blasted into space from a launchpad in Texas. Its main booster reached an …
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Nisha Desai is part of growing conservative push to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in corporate US PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535m investment program to Black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars. Thursday’s …
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State-backed cyperspies are exploiting ageing infrastructure to penetrate every corner of the US government, it seems – even its phone-tapping systems You know the drill. You’re logging into your bank or another service (Gmail, to name just one) that you use regularly. You enter your username and password and then the service says that it …
Company’s own inquiry found money laundering and children performing sexualized acts for digital currency TikTok has long been aware that its video livestream feature has been misused to harm children, according to newly revealed details in a lawsuit brought against the social media company by the state of Utah. Those harms include child sexual exploitation …
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Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries As a business proposition, Elon Musk’s ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired X in late 2022, the social media company, according to one …
How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page Read More »
The tech scene is booming in the US’s largest Black-majority city, with foreign investment and a recent population boost When the Book Cadillac hotel opened in Detroit a century ago this month, it crowned the Motor City as one of the most dominant metropolitan powers on the planet. The tallest hotel in the world at …
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Researchers are looking at how to make video meetings feel less tiring, reduce anxiety and tackle ‘Zoom dysmorphia’ Whether it’s a social catch-up with colleagues, or assembling to set new year objectives, many of us will be reconnecting via Zoom, Teams or Google Meet come Monday morning. Yet while such platforms have revolutionised flexible and …
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