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1 week ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Graham Fraser
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Liverpool won the English Premier League this season, and live football is the focus on many illegal streamsA lack of action by big tech firms is enabling the "industrial scale theft" of premium video services, especially live sport, a new report says.
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Graham Fraser
Indian IT giant investigates M&S cyber attack linkGraham FraserGetty ImagesAn Indian IT company is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether it was the gateway for the cyber attack on Marks & Spencer, BBC News understands. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has provided services to M&S for more than a decade.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Graham Fraser
7 hours agoAnything that disrupts the criminal dark web is a good thing. Especially when those underground marketplaces, only accessible using specialized browser software and by those with highly vetted criminal credentials, are home to the sale of 19 billion stolen passwords, organized and prolific …
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Graham Fraser |Kevin Peachey
Cyber attack threat keeps me awake at night, bank boss saysGraham Fraser & Kevin PeacheyTechnology reporter & Cost of living correspondentGetty ImagesIan Stuart said the HSBC banking group is spending hundreds of millions of pounds on its IT systemsThe boss of one of the UK's biggest banks has said the threat of cyber attacks "keeps me awake at night".
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2 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Graham Fraser |Imran Rahman-Jones
The Met Office has unveiled a new supercomputer which it says produces better forecasts. The weather agency says detailed estimates up to 14 days in advance will become the norm, while rainfall predictions will also be more accurate. The new cloud-based system, which was launched on Monday, can perform 60 quadrillion calculations per second. It is being operated by Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure, making it the first system the Met Office is not running by itself.
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Graham Fraser |Imran Rahman-Jones
UK weather forecast more accurate with Met Office supercomputerGraham Fraser & Imran Rahman-JonesGetty ImagesWhile this boy doesn't seem to mind, the Met Office say the new supercomputer will help with predictions on when it will rainThe Great British tradition of talking about the weather has been taken to a new level after the Met Office unveiled a new supercomputer which it says produces better forecasts.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Graham Fraser
Graham FraserTechnology reporterFrom blossoming long-distance love to helping families stay connected, for years Skype held a unique place in people’s hearts. In the days before Zoom, WhatsApp and Teams, the video call service was once one of the world’s most popular websites. It allowed people to make computer-to-computer calls free, and then became the way users could make low cost calls to landlines and mobiles to people in other parts of the world.
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4 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Graham Fraser
Graham FraserTechnology ReporterAbout 1.2m people in the UK were affected by banking outages that happened on what was pay day for many earlier this year. The details have emerged in letters from Lloyds, TSB, Nationwide and HSBC to Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, which is looking into the incident that occurred on Friday, 28 February. HSBC also revealed that customers had to wait two hours on average that day to reach its online customer service team.
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4 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Graham Fraser
Pay day banking outages hit 1.2m people, banks revealGraham FraserGetty ImagesAbout 1.2m people in the UK were affected by banking outages that happened on what was pay day for many earlier this year. The details have emerged in letters from Lloyds, TSB, Nationwide and HSBC to Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, which is looking into the incident which occurred on Friday, 28 February.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Graham Fraser
Long-distance romance and closure from husband's death - your memories of SkypeGraham FraserOwen and Weng WilliamsSkype would help change the lives of Owen and Weng WilliamsFrom blossoming long-distance love to helping families stay connected, for years Skype held a unique place in people's hearts. In the days before Zoom, WhatsApp and Teams, the video call service was once one of the world's most popular websites.
