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Twitter has confirmed hackers made use of tools that were supposed to have only been available to its own staff to carry off Wednesday’s hack attack. The breach saw the accounts of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates among other celebrities used to tweet a Bitcoin scam. Twitter also revealed the perpetrators had […]

11 days, 264 hours and 15,840 minutes after the video of George Floyd slowly suffocating went viral, Zeke logged onto his work network and posted in the forum. “We need to address this,” he wrote. Zeke*, 26, had heard nothing internally or externally from his law firm about Black Lives Matter until he spoke out. […]

As a woman of colour, racial gaslighting has been a painful experience that many people like me have had to deal with at some point in our lives. You may already be familiar with the term gaslighting, which is a form of psychological abuse. This was defined after the 1944 film Gaslight, a thriller about a […]

Six people have tested positive for coronavirus in an outbreak at a test and trace call centre in North Lanarkshire. Sitel, which carries out contact tracing for NHS England, said it was aware of a “local outbreak” at its Motherwell site. Deputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland the call centre has been […]

A local lockdown in Blackburn with Darwen is “the very last resort” in tackling the area’s rise in coronavirus cases, its public health boss has said. The Lancashire borough is overtaking Leicester as England’s coronavirus hotspot, according to official figures. It recorded the highest infection rate, with 79.2 cases per 100,000 people, in the week […]

Changes to the Student Loans Company’s website are “irresponsible and dangerous”, the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis has claimed. Mr Lewis says a new “quick repayment” tool gives UK graduates a “damaging, demoralising” picture of their debts. He says the tool exaggerates the status of their outstanding loans. The SLC says its online repayment service […]

Boris Johnson says the UK’s extradition arrangements with Hong Kong will be changed, amid rising tensions with China. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is expected to suspend an extradition deal with the territory later. It comes after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law on the ex-British colony, introducing new crimes with severe penalties. China has accused the […]

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are looking for ways to help travelers detect surveillance technology in their vacation rental units. It turns out most of the people involved in the study would like to see IoT devices adopt light and sound indicators to establish their presence. They published their results in the Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human […]

For decades, academic researchers have dismissed the study of UFOs as pseudoscience. But as the evidence becomes harder and harder to ignore, some organizations are finally taking steps to make the field legitimate. For as long as humans have claimed they’ve seen UFOs—and it’s been a long, long time—the established scientific community has more or less considered […]

Whether you were an avid gardener before the pandemic or more free time has you noticing weeds overtaking your garden and lawn, it’s worth investing in solid gardening gloves to protect your hands. You may be used to getting your hands dirty, but some of these gloves can shield your hands from thorns, help you […]