Cash savings websites offer huge rates boost

Cash savings websites paying four times the best rates on offer from banks and building societies By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 20 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 20 April 2021 Cash savings websites offer exclusive deals that pay four times the best rates on offer with banks and building … Read more

Martin Lewis accidentally swears on This Morning during rant about scammers and illegal websites

‘These s**tes are outrageous!’ Martin Lewis accidentally swears on This Morning during rant about online scammers and illegal websites By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 12:32 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 14:01 GMT, 11 February 2021 He regularly appears on ITV to offer money advice.  And on Thursday, Martin Lewis accidentally swore during an … Read more

The best walking apps and websites for exploring the UK

With most UK Covid restrictions limiting us to local exercise, websites and apps listing the best walks close to home have been booming. The National Trust has seen visits to 1,300 walking trails pages on its website double already this month, while the Ramblers, which offers more than 3,000 routes on its website, has recently … Read more

Secure websites will stop loading on phones running Android 7.1 or older from September 2021

Millions of secure websites won’t load on smartphones that run Android 7.1 or older after September 2021, it has been revealed.   US-based certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said a change in its criteria from next September will mean old Android operating systems won’t trust its root certificates.  Root certificates are issued by a certified authorities like … Read more

Should you rely on the websites tradesmen PAY to be listed on?

Should you rely on the websites tradesmen PAY to be listed on? By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 24 October 2020 Warning: Checkatrade and Rated People charge traders to be on their websites Consumers groups are warning householders to be wary of a flurry … Read more

Facebook engineers retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to certain news websites

Facebook altered its algorithm to prevent articles from certain news websites from appearing on its newsfeed, a new report states.  According to the Wall Street Journal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the changes that would result in the websites receiving a cut in traffic and views three years ago.  The move came after the social media … Read more

Internet users across the world report problems with accessing websites in major global outage 

Internet users across the world report problems with accessing websites in major global outage Internet users across the world have reported connection problems on platforms Down Detector reveals spike in outages across several sites and online services Web performance and security giant Cloudflare reported that they were aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially … Read more

Spies reveal Russian spies’ plot to spread chaos and division with ‘news’ websites

Russian intelligence operatives are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known as the GRU … Read more

Ex-engineer at Google says glitch which blocked conservative websites exposed secret internal list

Google’s right-wing blacklist: Ex-engineer at tech giant says glitch which blocked some conservative websites from appearing in their search may have exposed a secret internal list which suppresses certain outlets Google on Tuesday morning for several hours did not display conservative news The company says they’re aware of the incident but did not give an … Read more