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Thousands on benefits could have energy debt cancelled

Regulator Ofgem plans to cut £500m from the stack of customer debt - but other billpayers will cover the cost.

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Spooky spending creeping in weeks before Halloween

Spending on Halloween now tops £1bn and UK shoppers are looking beyond sweet treats and pumpkins

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Spooky spending creeping in weeks before Halloween

Spending on Halloween now tops £1bn and UK shoppers are looking beyond sweet treats and pumpkins

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Spooky spending creeping in weeks before Halloween

Spending on Halloween now tops £1bn and UK shoppers are looking beyond sweet treats and pumpkins

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Websites disabled in Microsoft global outage come back online

Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform were hit with DNS issues, similar to the recent AWS outage.

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Websites disabled in Microsoft global outage come back online

Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform were hit with DNS issues, similar to the recent AWS outage.

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Fed cuts US interest rates again despite ‘flying blind’

Central bank votes to lower cost of borrowing even as US government shutdown limits data for decision

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Fed cuts US interest rates again despite ‘flying blind’

Central bank votes to lower cost of borrowing even as US government shutdown limits data for decision

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Nvidia hits new milestone as world’s first $5tn company

The US chip-maker has rapidly climbed from a niche graphics-chip manufacturer to an AI titan.

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Watchdog proposes new rules to increase blocking of scam texts

The plans involve blocking hundreds of millions more scams from reaching potential victims and locking scammers out of networks.

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