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Monthly Archives: October 2025
Microsoft outages hit Azure, 365, Xbox, public transport services – not long after Amazon and just hours before quarterly earnings report
A major Microsoft outage has caused services like 365 and Azure cloud platform to go dark hours before the company was set to report its quarterly earnings, CNBC reports. According to Downdetector, which monitors internet outages, tens of thousands of … Continue reading
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A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees
Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB’s DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of … Continue reading
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CBP will photograph non-citizens entering and exiting the US for its facial recognition database
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted a new measure that allows it to photograph any non-US citizen who enters or exits the country for facial recognition purposes. According to a filing with the government’s Federal Register, CBP and … Continue reading
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YES! Scientists turn fungal flower fragrance into a mosquito killer
To combat mosquito-borne illnesses that claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year, scientists have enlisted an unexpected partner: a fungus that gives off a floral scent. By exploiting mosquitoes’ attraction to flowers, an international team of researchers engineered a … Continue reading
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Serum promotes hair growth by mimicking the effects of skin irritation
Sung-Jan Lin at National Taiwan University and his colleagues became intrigued by the role of fat tissue in hair growth several years ago during an experiment on mice. “We unexpectedly discovered that, after skin irritation, the size of skin adipocytes … Continue reading
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Airbus, Leonardo and Thales to create joint EU Space giant
Amsterdam, Rome, Paris, 23 October 2025 – Airbus (stock exchange symbol: AIR), Leonardo (Borsa Italiana: LDO) and Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) aimed at combining their respective space activities into a new company. By … Continue reading
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Apple faces £1.5B fine after losing UK App Store case
Apple could face claims estimated at around £1.5 billion after it lost a collective case in the UK arguing that its closed systems for apps resulted in overcharging businesses and consumers. The ruling from a Competition Appeal Tribunal responded to … Continue reading
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High-tech poker and NBA scam used X-ray tables, special glasses, collusion, card machines
The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and illegal sports betting. Two federal indictments were unsealed on Thursday, one focused on a high-tech poker … Continue reading
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Sweden’s crowd-forecasting platform ‘Glimt’ helps Ukraine make wartime predictions
New NATO member Sweden is boosting support to Ukraine, with a letter of intent signed this week on the sale of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets. Shortly after joining NATO in March 2024 and bringing an end to two centuries of … Continue reading
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What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine?
When the microcomputer first landed in homes some forty years ago, it came with a simple freedom—you could run whatever software you could get your hands on. Floppy disk from a friend? Pop it in. Shareware demo downloaded from a … Continue reading
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Eating more fruit, vegetables and whole grain carbs increases your sleep the very same day
[…] “Dietary modifications could be a new, natural and cost-effective approach to achieve better sleep,[ …] Previous studies have shown that getting too little sleep can drive people toward unhealthier eating patterns, often higher in fat and sugar. Yet, despite … Continue reading
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A hidden temperature law governs all life on Earth
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have uncovered what they call a “universal thermal performance curve” (UTPC), a pattern that appears to apply to every living species on Earth. This curve describes how organisms respond to changes in temperature, and it … Continue reading
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Apple’s AirDrop Create WiFi jitters unless you are on the proscribed Channel numbers
Networking researcher Christoff Visser has found that Apple devices cause Wi-Fi networks to “jitter” due to traffic generated by the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) tech that powers the peer-to-peer AirDrop filesharing tool. Visser presented his findings on Tuesday at … Continue reading
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Jet Engines Powering New Data Centers Whilst Waiting for Grid Connection
Data-center developers are running into a severe power bottleneck as they rush to build bigger facilities to capitalize on generative AI’s potential. Normally, they would power these centers by connecting to the grid or building a power plant onsite. However, … Continue reading
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Scientists Discover a Giant, Unexplained Wave Rippling Through the Milky Way
[…] The Milky Way is anything but static. It rotates and it wobbles, and new observations from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope now reveal another motion, a giant wave moving outward from the galaxy’s centre. For roughly a … Continue reading
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Implant + glasses restores vision to age-related blindness, but not without risks
Background Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in such persons currently exist. The photovoltaic retina implant microarray (PRIMA) … Continue reading
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Major AWS outage takes down Slack, Zoom, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Roblox, Xbox, PlayStation, Wordle, more… many many more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the … Continue reading
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Windows 11’s October update just broke the Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in Windows RE
Windows Recovery Environment (RE), as the name suggests, is a built-in set of tools inside Windows that allow you to troubleshoot your computer, including booting into the BIOS, or starting the computer in safe mode. It’s a crucial piece of … Continue reading
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Mathematicians Just Found a Hidden ‘Reset Button’ That Can Undo Any Rotation
If you twist something — say, spin a top or rotate a robot’s arm — and want it to return to its exact starting point, intuition says you’d need to undo every twist one by one. But mathematicians Jean-Pierre Eckmann … Continue reading
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Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11, destroys loads of integrations eg Lian Li Fan software
Microsoft’s October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines. The problem first surfaced on Microsoft’s own support forums and quickly spread to Stack Overflow … Continue reading
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The Bird Dropping Report – what cars do birds poop on investigated
Alan’s Factory Outlet surveyed 1,000 American drivers to explore a messy but relatable problem: bird droppings on cars. By combining survey responses with research on bird behavior and parking habits, this report uncovered which vehicles are hit the hardest, which … Continue reading
Using Etherhiding to insert malware into blockchains to scam job seekers, steal wallets gain corporate entry
[…] a technique called EtherHiding, hiding malware inside blockchain smart contracts to sneak past detection and ultimately swipe victims’ crypto and credentials, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence team. A Pyongyang goon squad that GTIG tracks as UNC5342 has been using … Continue reading
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SpaceX’s Secret ‘Starshield’ Satellites Caught Using Unauthorized Frequencies
SpaceX may be guilty of violating regulatory standards by using a classified network of satellites to transmit data to Earth on radio frequencies reserved for uplinking signals, according to a citizen scientist who tracks satellites in Earth orbit. Scott Tilley, … Continue reading
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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police with little oversight
Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Now agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with … Continue reading
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Prosper data breach impacts 17.6 million accounts
Hackers stole the personal information of over 17.6 million people after breaching the systems of financial services company Prosper. Prosper operates as a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that has helped over 2 million customers secure more than $30 billion in loans … Continue reading
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