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Facebook outage: maintenance error disconnected data centres globally

Facebook has said that a routine maintenance error caused the disruption to its services earlier this week, “effectively disconnecting Facebook data centres globally.” The outage, which lasted more than five hours and affected Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, occurred after day-to-day infrastructure maintenance

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing, unless you class establishing supremacy as a good thing? This week, I am referring to the current tech war raging on between Facebook and Apple, two tech titans whose models are both as dodgy as each other. On the one

Big tech or a big problem? Tackling the monopoly

The relentless rise of ‘big tech’ (specifically the ‘big six’) consisting of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Alphabet (owner of Google), Apple and last but not least, Microsoft – has led to these companies possessing power quite unlike anything we have ever seen. These

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The Internet or the Thing?

The Internet of Things has had a pretty bad wrap over the years, with IoT connected devices kicking up a myriad of cybersecurity concerns; remember when IoT toys were (accused of) spying on kids? Yeah that.

Asda CEO Roger Burnley impersonated in new Facebook scam

Asda CEO Roger Burnley has become the latest retail boss to fall victim to an impersonation in an online scam, following an M&S scam last month.  Cyber criminals created an online Facebook group with a deal that consumers couldn’t refuse, with the

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