A judge in New Mexico yesterday ordered Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) after a trial found the company had spent years misleading the public about how it handled Facebook user data. The penalty, the largest Meta has faced, follows a two-week trial earlierContinue Reading
Thirty-two UK government services are offline and four are partially unavailable while officials address a critical security flaw in the programming language PHP, tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the House of Lords today. “The information I have is that 32 Government services are unavailable and four are partiallyContinue Reading
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A relocated Europa League game is set to be played without fans in attendance.Continue Reading
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The UK’s gender pay gap for workers declined further over the past year, according to official figures. Data also showed the proportion of UK workersContinue Reading
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They tend to surface when you’re at your busiest: a supplier stops delivering halfway through a contract, or a former employee lodges a claim over something you thought was settled. Growth makes both more likely, simply because you’re signing more agreements and hiring more people than before. As opportunity increases,Continue Reading
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