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Global IT outage should be a wake-up call for governments, industry and individuals | UK News
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The mass global IT outage has exposed the vulnerability of modern daily life when technology fails. The chaos, which impacted businesses and services worldwide, from GP appointments and flights to news broadcasts and online payments, is thought to have been triggered by a security software update rather than any kind of deliberate cyber attack by…
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Fraud gangs ‘stealing billions’ from music industry via ‘fake’ streams | Science & Tech News
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Fraud groups take billions of dollars a year out of the music industry through fake streams, a streaming technology company has warned. At least 10% of all song streams are fraudulent, and this takes between $2bn and $3bn (£1.6bn and £2.4bn) out of the global music industry each year according to Beatdapp, the streaming fraud…
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How the whisky industry could help provide sustainable fuel for the future | Climate News
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Scientists at a university in Scotland believe they have discovered a way to turn waste water from the whisky industry into sustainable fuel. A team from Heriot-Watt University has developed materials that can use waste water from distilleries to produce green hydrogen which, unlike fossil fuels, does not produce carbon when it is burned. Green…
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Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty – and the crypto industry may never recover | Science & Tech News
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It took just four hours for a jury to find fallen “crypto king” Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of fraud. The 31-year-old has been convicted of stealing billions of dollars from customers of FTX, which was the world’s second-largest crypto exchange before its dramatic collapse last year. To this day, FTX users – at least 80,000 of…
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Who is Linda Yaccarino? The new Twitter chief executive with deep ties in the advertising industry | Science & Tech News
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In a few short weeks, Elon Musk will hand over the helm of Twitter to Linda Yaccarino. But who exactly is the new chief executive, and how does she fit into Musk’s vision of “the everything app”? Musk, who brought Twitter in October and has been running it since, has long insisted that he would…
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After landmark rocket launch ends in heartache, where does UK space industry go from here? | Science & Tech News
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It was supposed to be the night that the UK strapped rocket boosters to its attempt to make a dent in the new global space race. Yet no amount of awe or excitement on the ground at Spaceport Cornwall could will the LauncherOne rocket into completing its mission, one that would have made the seaside…