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BEIS has ‘national security’ concerns over China-owned Nexperia which took control of Newport Wafer Fab The British government has blocked the takeover of the UK’s largest producer of semiconductors by a Chinese-owned manufacturer, citing “a risk to national security”. The business department’s decision on Wednesday comes more than a year after semiconductor company Nexperia first …

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Our nation’s data security practices have been so sloppy that recent major data breaches could have been avoided with simple protections Few would disagree with the view that the world has changed more in the last 20 years than it did in the 2,000 years before that. In today’s connected world, breaking news is streamed …

Australian companies don’t value keeping our data safe because they have little to lose. Our laws need to change that | George Newhouse and Duncan Fine Read More »

Wakey Wines is TikTok hit after selling YouTubers’ ‘hydration drink’, with people travelling miles to visit shop Darren Grieves has travelled 130 miles (209km) from Carlisle with his three children to spend £66 on four drinks from an off-licence in Wakefield. The wagon driver has brought Darcy, 12, and nine-year-olds Lacy and Ryan to a …

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The Tesla CEO was in a Delaware court to defend a 2018 $56bn pay package that helped him become world’s richest man Elon Musk told a court on Wednesday that he expects to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find someone else to run the social media company. “There’s an initial burst of activity …

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Sam Bankman-Fried makes statement even as new boss begins formal bankruptcy process Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has claimed the company he founded is still solvent, even as its new boss, who oversaw the final days of Enron, begins the formal bankruptcy process. In a series of tweets …

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Plenty of games have found real-world success through viral fame on the platform. But can gaming Twitter survive Elon Musk? The End Days of Twitter have provided plenty of entertainment lately – not least someone using Elon Musk’s new paid-for checkmark system to impersonate Nintendo of America and tweet a picture of Mario flipping the …

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Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X; SegaThe open-world adventure is brilliant in terms of input and response at the expense of any discernible logic A few years ago I wrote an article about how the original Sonic the Hedgehog games are examples of “incorrect game design” in that they break a …

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Remaining staff given until Thursday to confirm they will work ‘long hours at high intensity’ as part of ‘the new Twitter’ Elon Musk has given Twitter’s remaining staff a Thursday deadline to commit to working “long hours at high intensity” and being “extremely hardcore” or else leave with three months’ severance pay. In an email …

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Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has left many users wondering if they should join its rival, which promises a ‘different kind of social media experience’. But how different is it? I decided to find out How did I choose this as the day I would leave Twitter, already semi-destroyed by an “eccentric” billionaire, and migrate …

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Caleb Simpson’s man-on-the-street TikTok videos capture the insides of stranger’s homes for millions of followers Come inside a shoebox studio apartment with a stripper pole in downtown Manhattan that rents for $2,095 (£1,764) a month. Or an $800 (£674) housing project unit with hand-painted kitchen walls. What about a luxury $5,000-a-month rental with marble countertops? …

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