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The Vegemite wars
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j86xydjpro- Grey Havoc
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How Louvre gang carried out France's most shocking theft (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fde5876a-c35c-48a2-b4cf-d255bd25611b https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgk0y97v0go- Grey Havoc
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Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage (BBC News)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt- Grey Havoc
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Afghanistan sees telecom shutdown as Taliban cut off internet (BBC News)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo- Grey Havoc
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ARM cancelling ISA licenses to Qualcomm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially... -
Crowdstrike causes world-wide IT outages
So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...- overscan (PaulMM)
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Artificial Intelligence - General News
New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65709834 -
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Amazon Job Cuts Mean the End of Stores, Maybe Alexa/Echo
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Qatar announces shock beer ban at World Cup stadiums (The Daily Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2022/11/17/qatar-ban-alcohol-sales-world-cup-stadiums/- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 fédération internationale de football association fifa world cup 2022 interesting times middle east qatar
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Possible Ebola case investigated in UK (The Daily Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/possible-ebola-case-investigated-colchester-hospital/- Grey Havoc
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Terayacht Pangeous
Putting this in the bar for now as I doubt it will ever generate more than some nice concept pictures... Radical plan for $12 billion floating terayacht city, named Pangeos -
Medibank data breach incident fallout
https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1514222/australia-to-consider-banning-ransomware-payments Some more background: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/14/medibank-mental-health-data-posted-on-dark-web-as-russian-hackers-vow-to-keep-our-word...- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 british commonwealth cloud computing commonwealth of australia computer security interesting times ransomware
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Regulated Liability Network (New York Fed Digital Dollar simulation project)
https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1815231/banking-giants-and-new-york-fed-start-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot https://u.today/us-banking-giants-start-digital-dollar-pilot...- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 biden administration digital dollar digital tokens early 21st century interesting times the federal reserve bank of new york united states
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Blackouts in the British Isles
A little bit of background on the Irish situation first: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0829/1319302-ireland-electricity-shortages-blackouts-energy-crisis/ https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0906/1320973-ireland-energy-security-blackouts-winter/ As things stand this week...- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 cold war ii energy crisis interesting times republic of ireland united kingdom
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Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts (Reuters)
Via Slashdot: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-europe-braces-mobile-network-blackouts-sources-2022-09-29/ Things may be even worse than they think, there are a fair few computer systems that rely at least in part on mobile phone networks, not to mention reliance on...- Grey Havoc
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Cryptocurrency news and woes
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Elon Musk Buys Twitter
Breaking news. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk-launches-43-billion-hostile-takeover-of-twitter -
Log4Shell
https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01- Grey Havoc
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The Metaverse is coming. Or, another attempt at Bread and Circuses for the Masses.
If you think you're spending too much time online, Facebook et al is about to offer (maybe) compelling reasons to spend more. Fortunately, there are still 24 hours in a day, people still need to eat and sleep, and Mr. Zuckerberg and company won't be able to squeeze another dollar out of anyone... -
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
The ongoing effort to collect real money in return for nothing. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart-bitcoin-kiosks-coinstar-coinme-cryptocurrency/