Vampire appliances: the electronics sucking your wallet dry

Appliances left on standby account for almost a quarter of Britain’s electricity use. Turns out your gran was right to go around switching things off at the wall

I feel Apple is trying to bend the truth over my warped iPad Pro

A reader writes that they are £1,000 out of pocket and no longer have a working tablet

Not Going Quietly review – healthcare activist Ady Barkan takes ALS to congress

Documentary follows Barkan, who has motor neurone disease, as he campaigns for better public healthcare in the US

Google profiting from ‘predatory’ loan adverts promising instant cash

The ads, some offering loans delivered ‘faster than a pizza’, appear to deliberately target those in financial trouble

Internet scams to be included in UK online safety bill

Platforms to be required to protect users from pre-paid fraudulent adverts as well as user-generated scams

Fitbit recalls 1.7m Ionic smartwatches because of ‘burn hazard’

Reports of fitness watch’s lithium-ion battery overheating leads to warning from US safety commission

Watchdog bans London tube Floki Inu cryptocurrency ad campaign

Advertisements named after Elon Musk’s dog allegedly took advantage of consumers’ naivety

Scammers guessed my credit card number – and they could guess yours too

Samuel Gibbs was surprised when his details were used to pay for a stranger’s takeaway. It is just one of a flood of ‘guess attacks’

I was driven up the pole by a nine-month wait for BT broadband

A reader has a poor mobile signal in a rural area and had every excuse in the book for the delay

Amazon and Visa resolve dispute over credit card fees

Online retailer will continue to accept Visa payments across its sites after striking global deal

Binance access to UK payments network worries City watchdog

FCA says it has limited powers to object to Paysafe deal despite concerns about cryptocurrency platform

Pandemic helps heartless romance fraudsters infect the internet

Brazen scammers are luring victims on social media by building up fake relationships

Force pension funds to align with net zero goal, says Richard Curtis

Film-maker urges UK ministers to make it mandatory for schemes to align portfolios with climate target

Please, Mum! WhatsApp fraudsters pose as loved ones to steal money

Scammers are turning to an underhand new tactic to con the unsuspecting into parting with cash over the phone

Government faces urgent call to tackle Britain’s ‘fraud epidemic’

Influential committee reveals 43% jump in economic crime in the year from June 2019