It’s not just testing that is failing, contact tracing is broken too

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It's not just testing that is failing, contact tracing is broken too

The parts of England with the highest rate of infections also see some of the lowest rates of contact tracing success

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Hospital patient dies after ransomware attack

A woman seeking emergency treatment for a life-threatening condition has died after a ransomware attack crippled her local hospital in Dusseldorf, Germany. The attack forced the woman to transfer to another hospital, resulting in a one-hour delay. She later died.

Twitter prepares for Election Day chaos

US politicians and media organisations will be prompted to introduce additional security measures on their Twitter accounts ahead of the election in November. The move comes after Twitter was hit by one of the largest security breaches in its history when hackers used the accounts of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, amongst others, to push a bitcoin scam.

Alligator with funny voice wins Ig Nobel

A scientific experiment that involved putting an alligator in a tank filled with helium to change the pitch of the noises it makes has won an Ig Nobel Prize. The experiment was designed to show that different resonances produce different responses.

Quibi wins two Emmy awards

The beleaguered bitesize streaming service has bagged two Emmy awards for #FreeRayshawn, a police drama starring Laurence Fishburne. But is anyone watching? Data suggests only eight per cent of 910,000 people who signed up to a free trial of Quibi stuck with the service.

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The influx of celebrities for whom sex work is a hobby is seen not only as financially troubling for those who rely on OnlyFans for a living, but also demeaning. When the notorious Instagrammer Caroline Calloway bragged on Twitter that she expected to make an annual salary of a quarter of a million dollars from her OnlyFans subscribers, sex workers flooded into her mentions to explain that "drop-ins" by celebrities degrade sex workers who want their labour seen as valid. But with each new celebrity arrival, despite attempts to make their voices heard, sex workers voices are being quickly drowned out. Calloway's was just a taste of the serious disruption that was on the horizon.

Sarah Manavis explains how the rich and famous stole OnlyFans from sex workers.

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