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August 2024

  • Iran’s mission to the UN told Reuters its cyber capabilities were ‘defensive and proportionate to the threats it faces’ and that it had no plans to launch cyber-attacks.

    Iran hackers target US officials to influence election, Microsoft says

    Hackers tried breaking into account of ‘high-ranking official’ on US presidential campaign, researchers say
  • a google logo

    Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules

    White House calls decision – that could have major implications for web use – ‘victory for the American people’
  • Logos of: Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta

    Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

    Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors

31 July 2024

  • ‘I’ll miss the late-night rounds of Uno’ … a graphic depicting Xbox 360s.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    The Xbox 360’s pioneering online store has gone offline – and it marks the end of a gaming era

  • Nvidia microchip

    Mixed signals on tech stocks amid debate over viability of AI boom

30 July 2024

  • Microsoft logo at Microsoft offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris on 25 March 2024.

    Microsoft beats revenue forecasts but poor performance of cloud services drags share price

    Firm’s earnings were up 15% year-on-year, but Azure’s lower returns resulted in share prices falling by as much as 7%

25 July 2024

  • OpenAI logo on phone screen sitting on laptop keyboard

    OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race

  • UberEats courier on a bike

    CrowdStrike faces backlash as ‘thank you’ gift cards are blocked

24 July 2024

  • A woman takes a picture of a flight tracking board that reports delays for more than half the flights

    CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

    Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

23 July 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: Holiday season at Atlanta airport<br>FILE PHOTO: Delta Air Lines jets are seen at gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

    US opens investigation into Delta after airline cancels thousands of flights

    Transportation department says move aims to ensure care of passengers after global cyber outage snarled operations
  • Passengers queue at Gatwick airport amid a global IT outage caused by a defect in a software update last Friday.

    Brief letters
    Global IT failure has left me fearing the word ‘upgrade’

    Brief letters: CrowdStrike outage | Computer illiterates | Fighting water companies | Long-lived historian | Rubber band saves sole
  • Large queues of people at Ninoy Aquino international airport in Manila, Philippines

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Why CrowdStrike-style chaos is here to stay

    Countless theories for the cybersecurity firm’s outage are flying, but whatever the reason, the fact is that this sort of thing is likely to happen again

22 July 2024

  • A departures board shows at Hartsfield-Jackson International airport in Atlanta, Georgia

    CrowdStrike says significant number of devices back online after global outage

    But experts says full recovery from Friday’s IT failure could take weeks

21 July 2024

  • An illustration of a blue digital background with the words in white AI Artificial Intelligence, and silhouettes of figures sitting at desktop computers, at laptops, and on the phone.

    The world is not quite ready for ‘digital workers’

  • A light rail makes its way through George Street in the central business district of Sydney

    Australia news live
    Sydney commuters face delays as light rail workers strike – as it happened

20 July 2024

  • Major IT Outage hits banks, airlines, businesses worldwide<br>DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - JULY 19: A general view from Dusseldorf Airport as passengers gather and wait due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides cyber security services to US technology company Microsoft, on July 19, 2024 in Dusseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Hesham Elsherif/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    The Observer view on the global IT crash: lessons must be learned from CrowdStrike fiasco

    Error that caused a global standstill reveals fragility of a networked world that has been created for efficiency rather than resilience
  • Passengers orienting themselves at Gatwick airport yesterday

    NHS England warns of disruption next week as global IT outage wreaks havoc

    Flights continue to be cancelled while GP surgeries and hospitals will be dealing with impact of backlogs

    • Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

    • Microsoft IT outage: criminals seeking to take advantage of global outage, CrowdStrike warns – as it happened

    • The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization

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