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Guardia Civil warns Wallapop customers in Spain about scammers. Credit : Bangla press, Shutterstock If you’ve ever sold anything on Wallapop – or bought something second-hand to save a bit of cash – the Guardia Civil has a warning you’ll want to pay attention to. What started as a clever idea to breathe new life into old gadgets and furnishings …

Spain’s VERIFACTU System will arrive in 2026. Image credit: FOTO EEK / Shutterstock If you have worked in Spain for long enough to remember the smell of the gestor’s offices, you will know that tax updates arrive with all the drama and chaos of a summer thunderstorm: abrupt, chaotic, and difficult to ignore. VERIFACTU, landing in 2026, is very much …

Children and online safety Credit: OsloMetX, Pixabay The online world can be overwhelming for many parents. It’s hard to give your children freedom while trying to keep them safe – especially if you’re living abroad. A new EU platform Help4ULaunched by Europol and CENTRICIt aims to alleviate some of the worry that children and adolescents feel by providing a trusted, …

WhatsApp users want more privacy features. Credit : kovop, Shutterstock WhatsApp is a tool we all use more often than we like to admit. It’s the app we open before we even get out of bed, the one we check while we’re supposedly watching a film, and the way we stay connected to everyone – from our closest friends to …

Rescue crews inspect the damaged Shenzhou-20 capsule following its return to Earth. Credit X- Chinese Embassy of Switzerland @ChinaEmbinCH It was supposed to be a straightforward ride home – the kind astronauts dream of after months floating in a metal lab the size of a small flat. Three taikonauts on China’s Tiangong station were stuck in orbit when a piece …

Google has taken off the gloves. Google introduced Gemini 3 on November 18, Tuesday. Smartest and most intuitive AI models yet – and it’s hard not to see this as a direct response to OpenAI’s GPT-5. Google CEO Larry Page’s message was a lot more direct than the usual big-word marketing. Sundar Pichai was unmistakable: this new model isn’t just …

Cloudflare’s billboard outside the New York Stock Exchange. Credit: Christopher Penler Shutterstock Cloudflare outage freezes everything, from ChatGPT on Facebook to major websites The internet had a bad day on Tuesday, November 18, after a sudden Cloudflare service outage caused many of the biggest platforms in the world to crash, stall or refuse to load. For millions, it felt like …

Fake bank messages are harder to detect, putting users at greater risk. Credit : panuwat phimpha, Shutterstock This is the kind of message which makes your heart skip beats. Your phone displays a message: Your account has now been suspended. Verify your account details by clicking here. It looks official – the same tone, the same number, even in the …

NASA might have just taken us a step closer to answering one of humanity’s oldest questions – are we alone in the universe? The US space agency’s latest analysis has revealed the most convincing evidence to date of possible life on Mars. The findings are based on a rock specimen drilled by Perseverance in Sapphire Canyon Scientists call it groundbreaking. …

Google warns that public WiFi networks can expose users to cyberattacks. Credit : Lin Xiu Xiu, Shutterstock If you’re the kind of person who jumps on the nearest free WiFi at a café, airport or shopping centre, you might want to think twice before doing it again. Google has just warned millions of users that connecting to public WiFi could …