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TikTok accused of helping to promote sex industry to girls

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Researchers say popular performers covertly market OnlyFans content and tell followers about wealthy lifestyleTikTok is helping to promote and normalise the sex industry, allowing “sexfluencers” to post videos aimed at marketing pornographic content they have uploaded elsewhere on sites such as OnlyFans, a report indicates.After studying non-explicit content posted on TikTok over the course of

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Freezer meltdowns and airline hoaxes are a taste of things to come. Hoping for the best is no longer an option | Elisabeth Braw

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Acts of greyzone aggression aim to spread panic. Europe has to show the saboteurs that we are resilientIt was as though a ghostly hand had switched the settings on supermarket freezers across Europe from “freeze” to “defrost”. From Finland to Ireland, they suddenly began heating up, many reaching 50C and food worth millions of euros

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French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

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Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood productsEurope live – latest updatesFrance’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of recent cyber-attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe.The French

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Hackers behind $6.3bn Binance heist ‘used malware and bogus job interviews’

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Firm reveals details about how its cryptocurrency exchange was compromised, saying operation began in JuneThe hackers behind the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) Binance heist used bogus job interviews, malicious software and an internal AI tool, the company has revealed.The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was compromised in an operation that began with an inadvertent download of malware in

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Freezers of UK meat suppliers heat up after cyber-attacks in Europe

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Cybersecurity experts say incidents had minimal effect but may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threatMeat suppliers in the UK have been hit by cyber-attacks after hackers raised the temperatures of supermarket freezers across Europe.The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was working with the affected companies but that the national impact was

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Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack

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Chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg say fridge temperatures rose overnight, similar to hack of French storesSupermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in

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Investors pull billions in funds from Binance after record $6.3bn hack

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Cryptocurrency exchange has begun to allow withdrawals after theft believed to have come from North KoreaInvestors have pulled $3.6bn (£2.7bn) in funds from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as it recovers from a record hack in which billions were stolen from customer accounts.The platform was hit by a $6.3bn theft on Thursday, which has since been

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Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw – and discredit to the leaker | Letters

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David Gibson says the problem is that details of the flaw were revealed before it was fixed, while Charles MacKinnon notes that we are at the mercy of technology we don’t understandChris Stokel-Walker may be right (The internet has broken – again. Shouldn’t the tech firms that make billions from it pay to fix it?,

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Reader Q&A: Send a question to Guardian economics columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty will be online at 2pm GMT (9am EDT) on Friday to answer your questions on the big ideas around economics, society and democracySend your questions to conversations@theguardian.com or join the discussion on Friday from 8amAditya Chakrabortty is the Guardian’s award-winning

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3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era

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For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and larger cities. Computing and digital technologies later transformed how infrastructure was designed, monitored, and operated.Now, the pace of change is accelerating, and challenges are arriving simultaneously. Climate change is increasing pressure on water, energy, and other resources.

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