Software made by US cybersecurity company was intended to protect against crashes and disruptions in vital systems – it ended up taking them down A global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one […]
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Microsoft’s IT outage reveals the fragility of our software systems and the risks of a more serious technology collapse • Global Microsoft IT outage: latest updates Planes grounded, trains delayed, television stations off air, hospital appointments cancelled, electronic payments halted. No, it wasn’t the start of a massive cyber-attack from […]
Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’ Explainer – what we know so far Services began to come back online on Friday evening after an IT failure that wreaked havoc worldwide. But full recovery could take weeks, experts have said, after […]
People told to stay at home due to unrest in Harehills area of West Yorkshire city A police car was flipped on to its side after unrest broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening, and local people were advised to stay at home. Footage on social media appeared to show […]
Health secretaries failed to amend contingency planning before Covid killed more than 230,000, report says Covid inquiry – live updates Five key takeaways from Covid report The UK’s pandemic planning was beset by “fatal strategic flaws” and citizens everywhere were failed, a damning first report from the UK Covid-19 public […]
Funding and staffing shortages mean plan to introduce cap in October 2025 impossible to deliver, councils say Long-awaited changes designed to protect individuals from having to sell their homes to meet large social care bills must be further delayed because of funding and staffing shortages, the leaders of England’s largest […]
PM wants to rethink UK’s immigration policies but did not make progress on returns deal at summit with EU leaders Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government’s immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the […]
Former president talks about shooting at Pennsylvania rally after formally accepting Republican nomination It’s not clear exactly what was discussed when, reportedly, Donald Trump met with the Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle, two days ago, not long after an assassination attempt on the former president’s life when he was shot […]
The dinosaur remains, which measure 3.4 metres tall and 8.2 metres long, show evidence that it had arthritis The largest and most complete stegosaurus fossil ever discovered sold for $44.6m at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday to become the most valuable fossil sold at auction. The dinosaur remains, nicknamed […]
PM’s speech failed to specify measures to tackle issue, angering MPs calling to scrap the two-child benefit cap Keir Starmer sought to ward off the first rebellion of his premiership with the launch of a new cross-government taskforce to tackle child poverty, as backbench Labour MPs were preparing to support […]