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Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT
A number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, went down for many on Tuesday, due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare. Thousands of users began reporting issues with the sites, as well as other services, to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly after 11:30 GMT. Cloudflare said th “significant outage” occurred after a…
Pizza Hut to close 68 UK restaurants
Charlotte EdwardsBusiness reporter, BBC News Getty Images Pizza Hut is to close 68 restaurants and 11 delivery sites in the UK with the loss of 1,210 jobs, after the firm running them fell into administration. DC London Pie Limited, which operates Pizza Hut’s UK restaurants, appointed FTI Consulting as administrators on Monday. However, Pizza Hut’s…
US considers lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil
“To put it mildly, this is bananas,” said David Tannenbaum, director of Blackstone Compliance Services, a consultancy specialising in maritime sanctions. “Essentially we’re allowing Iran to sell oil, which could then be used to fund the war effort.”
Annual energy bills predicted to fall by £22 in January
Archie MitchellBusiness reporter PA Media Household energy bills are expected to fall slightly in the new year before rising again in April, according to consultancy Cornwall Insight. The forecaster expects the annual bill for households using a typical amount of gas and electricity will be £1,733 between January and March, when the latest energy price…
Scams have grown more sophisticated, but people are fighting back
As governments across the world restricted the movements of their citizens during Covid lockdowns from 2020, people spent more time online. We bought more online and socialised more online, and this brought us closer to the people who want to scam us. At the same time, realistic video impersonations, voices, websites, and texts became more…
