Month: July 2024

US wakes up to Microsoft system collapse from software update that has crippled world IT systems Global IT outage – latest updates Windows global IT outage: what we know so far Thousands of air passengers were stranded across the US on Friday morning as a global IT outage grounded major domestic airlines and struck rail …

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Yale Law School graduate found allies in tech billionaires including Peter Thiel who rallied privately for him When JD Vance was a student at Yale Law School in 2011, he attended a talk featuring Peter Thiel, the conservative tech billionaire. Although Vance didn’t know Thiel at the time, over the next decade he would become …

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Microsoft says cause of global chaos fixed but services may take days to recover as travelers face major disruptions and Alaska emergency services affected Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage? What we know so far American travelers are facing a difficult morning. According to aviation data company Flightaware’s Misery Map, 810 …

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There has been disruption at airports around the world, as well as banks, supermarkets and media outlets, after Windows workstations were hit by a ‘blue screen of death’. Long queues of passengers formed in airports in the UK, US, India and Spain as some airlines warned of delays and grounded flights Global Microsoft IT outage: …

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Banks, airlines, railways, telecoms companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline IT outage – full report What we know so far Have you been affected? Britain’s Sky News is back on air after an outage lasting several hours, but its presenter said the news channel was operating at minimal capacity and …

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Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations has affected major companies, including Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport and Thameslink Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows workstations across the globe. Users on the subreddit for cyber …

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Trump has accused Taiwan of ‘taking’ the US chip sector, but Taipei has been at the forefront of the industry for decades, and its future could depend on it The Hsinchu Science Park, on Taiwan’s west coast, is lush and green, with streets neatly planned and clearly signposted. The buildings are modern and well maintained …

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Safety groups say images are so lifelike that it can be hard to see if real children were subject to harms in production The volume of sexually explicit images of children being generated by predators using artificial intelligence is overwhelming law enforcement’s capabilities to identify and rescue real-life victims, child safety experts warn. Prosecutors and …

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One expert compared doomscrolling to being in a room where people are constantly yelling at you, and says media needs to rethink news Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Does scrolling your phone give you an existential crisis? That’s the question a team of international experts have sought …

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‘Unpredictable’ privacy regulations prompt Facebook owner to scrap regional plans for multimodal Llama Business live – latest updates Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will not release an advanced version of its artificial intelligence model in the EU, blaming the decision on the “unpredictable” behaviour of regulators. The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is preparing to issue …

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