IT Pro News in Review: Free broadband, IR35 checks, minorities hit hardest by hackers
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Welcome to IT Pro's News in Review, a weekly bite-sized bulletin of the top tech stories of the week, for the week ending 20 August, 2021.
This week:
- TalkTalk to offer job seekers six months of free broadband
- HMRC begins IR35 compliance checks
- Women and BAME individuals are hardest hit by cyber crime
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