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Mobile phone shop staff 'enabling Sim swap scams'Mobile phone shop staff 'enabling Sim swap scams'
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Staff in mobile phone shops have become key to the execution of "Sim swap" scams, Watchdog Live has discovered.

Undercover filming revealed that O2 and Vodafone employees are bypassing basic ID checks and handing over replacement Sim cards to potential criminals.

Once fraudsters gain control of a mobile number, they can

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Google executive leaves after sexual harassment claimGoogle executive leaves after sexual harassment claim
Image caption Richard DeVaul was a member of the team behind Alphabet's Project Loon venture

An executive at the X lab, set up by Google, has left his post after historical sexual harassment accusations against him were made public in the New York Times.

Richard DeVaul is alleged to have made inappropriate

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Apple Watch owners asked to return devices for repair after update glitchApple Watch owners asked to return devices for repair after update glitch
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Some users who installed the latest WatchOS software say it caused their devices to stop working

Apple has pulled an update for its smartwatches after some owners complained the software had caused their devices to stop working.

The problem appears to have baffled the

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Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
Image copyrightGareth LivermoreImage caption Programmer Gareth Livermore's family loves the Welsh quality of life - and he is not swayed by regular job offers

A Welsh multimillion-pound tech firm is unable to recruit the staff it needs, even though it is offering London levels of pay of up to £100,000 a year.

MyP

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Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits FacebookFake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook
Image copyrightFacebookImage caption The ad cost less than £100 to promote on Facebook and has been viewed by more than 1,000 people

A fake advert purporting to have been paid for by scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica has been posted to Facebook.

The ad, now removed but still visible in Facebook's new ad

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'Video games made me a better surgeon''Video games made me a better surgeon'
Image copyrightSaied FroghiImage caption Saied Froghi, right, with his brother Farid Froghi, a surgery research fellow, who joked "all those years of gaming paid off"

Trainee surgeon Saied Froghi played video games like Age of Empires and Halo in his spare time during medical school.

But rather than impede his

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