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Two men jailed over live-streamed cyber-attack that crippled Transport for London
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, teenagers at the time, streamed a 16-hour intrusion that exposed the data of as many as 10 million Oyster card holders.
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UK sets default midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds
Instagram, TikTok and YouTube will be switched off overnight by default for older teenagers — who will be able to switch the setting back on.
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Water industry calls UK datacentre plans 'fatally flawed' over cooling demand
Water UK told MPs the government's own forecasts explicitly exclude datacentres, while three-quarters of them are being built in the driest parts of England.
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Ofcom investigates whether TikTok's age checks are keeping children off the app
The regulator says it has 'serious doubts' about age inference, the technology TikTok uses to estimate how old its users are.
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Record 7.4 Million UK Households Unable to Afford Essentials, Charity Finds
Almost two-thirds of low-income families went without an essential item in the past six months, and nearly half skipped meals or cut portions.
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Business
England Bus Fares to Be Capped at £2 as Burnham Reverses Increase
The new prime minister says the cap will return to two pounds in January, at a cost of more than 500 million pounds, as households absorb higher fuel prices.
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