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Asos confirms hackers sent 'unauthorised' notification to app users

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Asos says it is investigating "unauthorised activity" involving third-party platforms it uses after customers received a notification from its app sent by hackers.

Dozens of people told the BBC they received the strange "ASOS HACKED" message from the clothing and beauty store's app on Tuesday morning - with some saying it left them "scared" to open the app.

The notification was addressed to the company's data protection officer and IT teams in what cyber security experts said looked like a "brazen" extortion attempt.

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Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever'

For ten years, Jonathan Blow has been working with a small team on what he believes is "the biggest puzzle game ever made". The American developer is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern indie game movement, creating the genre-defining puzzle-platformer Braid in 2008. Now, a decade on from his last project, The Witness, The Order of the Sinking Star is due to be released on Thursday - a game with roughly 1,500 puzzles that he estimates could take around 500 hours to complete.

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UK risks being 'uninvestable' if new oil and gas fields not approved, warns Equinor

Oil giant Equinor has warned it may shun further investments in the UK if new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved. "The question will be: is the UK investable in the future? I hope it will not come to that," said Anders Opedal, boss of the Norwegian state oil company which is part owner of the sites. He told the BBC the company would "have to take a hard view about it" if a decision was made to reject new drilling.