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 …
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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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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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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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 …
Operation to recover cryptocurrency from Russia-based hacking group is first undertaken by new ransomware taskforce The US Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month, officials said Monday. The operation to …
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Voice assistant will no longer send audio recordings to firm’s servers, instead processing requests ‘on device’ Apple will no longer send Siri requests to its servers, the company has announced, in a move to substantially speed up the voice assistant’s operation and address privacy concerns. The new feature comes two years after the Guardian revealed …
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Videos uploaded by Apple-approved team falsely appeared to have been shared by Oregon woman herself, filing says Apple has paid a multi-million dollar settlement to an Oregon woman after iPhone repair technicians uploaded explicit images and videos to the internet from a phone that she sent in for repair. Legal filings, first reported on by …
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Tech giant will pay £189m after settlement found it unfairly favoured its own tools for buying and selling ads Google has been fined €220m (£189m) by French competition regulators for abusing its dominance in the online advertising market in a landmark settlement that could rebalance the relationship between tech giants and digital publishers. The settlement …
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Reforms force multinationals to pay tax in all countries they operate in, but Amazon could evade new rules The G7 group of wealthy nations signed a historic tax agreement to tackle tax abuses by multinationals and online technology companies on Saturday, agreeing to a minimum global corporate tax rate for the first time. Although broadly …
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