Even though the massive CrowdStrike outage caused billions in damages, insurance companies will cover only a fraction of the losses. A third of the total cost comes from the Fortune 500 businesses.
Martin Hodás
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Biography
Covering all tech & digital since 2013 as both the journalist and editor. Formerly focusing on Android smartphones and Windows 10, later mostly on innovative tech, spaceflight, IT security, online scams, various aspects of digital life, or even the darker side of the internet and social media.
Spent a lot of time with Windows 10 Mobile back in the day - may he rest in peace.
Meta's Oversight Board identified several weaknesses in rules and processes that pose a risk of unnecessary harm to users, especially women, who are victims of non-consensual explicit deepfakes.
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SpaceX ends streak of 334 flawless flights as Falcon 9 fails. Starlink survivors to die soon [Update]
The super-reliable Falcon 9 rocket experienced a rare anomaly, breaking its near-perfect track record. Its upper stage lost the engine during the orbit insertion of SpaceX's own Starlink satellites.
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Meta says the candidates are subject to the same rules as regular users. It's a blatant lie
Meta is failing its users by not fact-checking Trump and other political figures. It does so under the false argument of free speech and self-imposed reach limitations that it can easily lift.
The company cooperates with the authorities to investigate the massive security breach. Data was stolen from a third-party cloud platform, and at least one person was already apprehended.
The new European rocket launcher Ariane 6 completed its inaugural mission despite an anomaly in the final phase. Previous delays and failures meant Europe had no operational rocket for a year.
Elon Musk expressed his fury about Apple's implementation of OpenAI services into iPhones, viewing it as a security threat. He even hinted at the possibility of introducing a secure X Phone.
SpaceX has released the external view of the first-ever successful splashdown landing of the Super Heavy booster. Images show the landing burn of 13 Raptor engines and a slow touchdown on the water.
Even though hot plasma almost destroyed Starship's flap, the rocket nailed yesterday's vertical landing. Elon Musk says SpaceX already has a solution, and it just wasn't present on this ship.
The Super Heavy first stage of SpaceX's Starship rocket made a remarkable splashdown during the successful landing simulation. Starship somehow survived the plasma hell and landed too.
The dearMoon mission of Yusaku Maezawa and a crew full of artists won't happen. When announced, Starship was just an idea on a drawing board. Today, it still aims for the Moon, but without Maezawa.
UK patients suffering from severe diagnoses such as quadriplegia or vision loss can now apply to take part in future clinical trials for brain-computer interface implants by Elon Musk's Neuralink.
Reports emerged about Slack using customers' messages and files to train machine learning models, supported by some unfortunate wording in the company's blog. However, Slack denies these allegations.
Amazon achieved 100% success with its Kuiper prototype satellites that are supposed to compete with SpaceX's Starlink. The test spacecraft will now lower its orbit and burn in the atmosphere.
The man who ordered a malicious robocall campaign with a fake voice of Joe Biden was charged with 26 felony counts. The Attorney General hopes this will be a strong deterrent for anyone else.
The fourth integrated test flight of Starship is planned for around June 5. SpaceX details the fixes addressing the issues that caused the rocket to surrender to the heat of plasma hell in March.