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The dust is finally settling on the cyberattack that downed Marks & Spencer’s online store for more than six weeks this spring. The ransomware attack, carried out by a hacker group calling itself Drag

Even I, with my exotic lifestyle and winning social manners, do not expect to bump into an MP just wandering around the streets of London. It’s taken four decades or so for us to be sitting in the rig

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

I am getting increasingly annoyed with companies that make it difficult to update their software. Ideally, an app should have a “Check for update” menu item. Even better if there’s a “Check every day”

When it comes to icons of the British high street, they don’t come much bigger than Marks & Spencer. Even if you aren’t a lady of a certain age keen on getting a new girdle at the same time as buying

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