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Are tech launches a better watch because of Covid?
The pandemic has forced firms to unveil new products via virtual events, rather than live on stage.
Musk suggests Autopilot not to blame for crash
One victim was found in the front passenger seat and the other was in the back after the accident in Texas.
YouTube demonetises influencer James Charles
The YouTuber admitted sending sexually explicit messages to 16-year-old boys earlier this month.
Facebook announces its version of Clubhouse
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says the social media platform will introduce audio elements.
Rural areas to be allowed taller, wider 5G masts
The masts will improve coverage and internet speeds in the English countryside, the government says.
Video 1 minute 13 seconds
Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars
The Ingenuity drone completes the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
UK intervenes in takeover of chip designer Arm
The government is to examine Nvidia's planned purchase of the UK firm on national security grounds.
Musk suggests Autopilot not to blame for crash
One victim was found in the front passenger seat and the other was in the back after the accident in Texas.
YouTube demonetises influencer James Charles
The YouTuber admitted sending sexually explicit messages to 16-year-old boys earlier this month.
Facebook announces its version of Clubhouse
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says the social media platform will introduce audio elements.
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Council boss defends IT security over cyber attack
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Stuart Arnold
The leader of Redcar and Cleveland Council has defended its IT security over a cyber attack, which left it without online services for weeks.
Councillor Mary Lanigan said: “There was nothing wrong with our systems – this was a foreign attack that came into Redcar and Cleveland. It had a ransom attached which we did not pay.”
The cyber-attack is estimated to have cost more than £10m and left about 135,000 people without online public services in February 2020.
Copyright: BBCCouncillors are confident conditions attached to the payment of a £3.6m government grant intended to help with the costs of the cyber attack will be met.
It will be paid to the council early next month but all, or some, of it could be clawed back if conditions are not met.
They include the authority providing an independent assessment by the end of September on work undertaken to recover from the cyber attack, and a financial assurance review, commissioned by the Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick’s department to be completed by the end of July.
Councillor Glyn Nightingale, cabinet member for resources, said: “Some of the work has already gone into fulfilling these conditions in order to provide the government with due diligence so it could assess whether we [got] any money or not.”
Ms Lanigan said: “We tried to get as much money as we could [from the government] and it has been a tremendous effort from Redcar and Cleveland to get that done.”
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