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UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation

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James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal

Labour MP James Frith has taken over the ministerial roles held by Josh Simons after he resigned over his handling of a report on journalists while running a think tank.…

SA Mathieson

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

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Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again

An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.…

Richard Speed