40 h. ago Federal government could resume taking DACA applications for permits to live and work in U.S.

Expected changes to a six-year-old lawsuit in Texas against DACA could mean the federal government will resume taking new applications for the program that offers people without legal immigration status two-year, renewable permits to live and work in the U.S. legally

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48 h. ago UK government resumes row with Apple by demanding access to British users’ data

New access order by Home Office would seek access to the tech company’s encrypted cloud backupsThe UK government has renewed its confrontation with Apple over access to customer data by demanding a backdoor into the tech company’s cloud storage service – targeting British users only.The Home Office had previously sought access to data on Apple’s advanced data protection (ADP) service uploaded by any user around the world, triggering a clash with the White House. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago British influencer condemns sick 'ableist' trend as cruel users 'erase' half of her face

A British TikTok creator living with AVM has spoken out against a toxic social media trend which sees users cruelly editing her features to erase her facial difference

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9 d. ago Channel 4 becomes first public sector broadcaster to launch channels on Freely

The streaming site gives households access to free-to-air channels via the internet, alongside on-demand content, without the need for an aerial.

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1 week ago ‘If he can be found, every one of the users can be’: unmasking the man behind toxic gossip website Tattle Life

For almost a decade, the site has torn apart the lives of celebrities and ordinary people alike, while its creator’s identity has remained a mystery. Until one couple turned super sleuths On Friday 13 June this year, a name that many people had been desperately trying to uncover for almost a decade was finally revealed. In a Northern Irish courtroom, a former vegan recipe content creator turned internet entrepreneur from Somerset was exposed as the hitherto anonymous proprietor of a gossip website named Tattle Life. His true identity is Sebastian Bond, and his unmasking may have kickstarted the biggest flurry of celebrity lawsuits since the Leveson inquiry revealed the extent of phone hacking in British tabloids.Tattle Life is a members-only forum that invites users to create and contribute to publicly readable threads of what it calls “commentary and critiques of people that choose to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain”. The site itself...

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2 w. ago These Sky customers get major upgrade with more TV channels added for free

This Sky box is getting a major upgrade that will give viewers access to a range of new shows and on-demand content for free

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2 w. ago British wheelchair user travelling to Brussels on Eurostar ends up in Rotterdam after Belgian staff wouldn't help him off the train, forcing him to travel to the Netherlands

Orlando Cardozo, 24, had arranged for assistance to get off at the Belgian capital but when the train arrived at Brussels on Friday, no one was there to meet him.

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