Month: May 2021

Amazon has announced plans to create more than 10,000 new permanent jobs in the UK this year. The online retail giant is opening new operations in Hinckley, Doncaster, Dartford, Gateshead and Swindon in 2021 and is also hiring for corporate roles as well as its cloud-computing division Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s latest recruitment drive, hailed
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Ireland’s health service has closed down its computer systems after what it described as a “significant ransomware attack”. The Republic’s Health Service Executive (HSE) said it had shut down its entire IT network as a “precaution”. It said COVID-19 vaccination appointments were not affected by the cyberattack and were going ahead as planned. Rotunda Critical
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A leadership candidate for one of Labour’s biggest union backers has been suspended from the party after he suggested Priti Patel should be “deported”, Sky News understands. Howard Beckett, who is standing to be elected as Unite’s new general secretary, was heavily criticised on Thursday night over his tweets about the home secretary. In a
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As violence between Israeli and Palestinian groups worsens, misinformation relating to both sides is spreading on social media. Twitter has placed a “media manipulation” warning on a tweet by Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that was shared with his 97,000 followers. The tweet in question featured a 28-second video that
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Barry Jenkins’ new limited series The Underground Railroad has been a long time coming for the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who says he has always wanted to make something related to the “American condition of slavery”. The show is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which re-imagines the underground railroad – a network
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