A massive outage at KDDI, Japan’s second-largest telecom operator, left nearly 40 million people around Tokyo without data or phones over the weekend. The breakdown started on Saturday morning after maintenance in a building west of Tokyo. The outage made it difficult to call, send messages or use data. […]
British postal workers are bitten by dogs an average of 32 times a week. The Royal Mail counted 1,673 dog bites in its postal workers from 1 April 2021 to 31 March this year. Some postal workers have been incapacitated for a long time or are now disabled, the […]
Russia ends all restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. For example, the mask obligation and restrictions in the catering industry will be abolished, consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has announced. The rules may be lifted thanks to the steady decline in deaths from the virus. Should the situation worsen […]
The malware was given the name YTStealer and seems to mainly target YouTube account logins to eventually take over the channels. The malware is particularly notable for its niche focus. YTStealer is built to steal login information and authentication tokens specifically for YouTube channels. However, according to security guard […]
The G7 countries will commit up to $5 billion for global food security, the US administration said. More than half of the amount will come from the United States, a senior US government official said Tuesday at the G7 summit in Elmau, Germany. The government representative accused Russian President […]
The Japanese government has called on the population to turn off unnecessary lighting for the next few hours to save electricity. Japan is currently being hit by a heat wave and massive amounts of electricity are being consumed for air conditioners. Due to that peak in power consumption, the […]
About 8 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of death from severe acute malnutrition. Unicef, the United Nations children’s rights organization, warns about this on the eve of the G7 summit. Since the beginning of this year, more than a quarter of a million (260,000) […]
Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to change its advertising after allegations of discrimination. Artificial intelligence must ensure that population groups are not excluded based on characteristics such as gender, age or origin. The US Department of Housing had complained that housing ads on Facebook “unlawfully discriminate” based on, […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes an economic recession in the United States is likely. That said the richest man in the world in an interview with Bloomberg news agency at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. “A recession is inevitable at some point and a recession is likely to […]
TSMC, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, wants to start producing chips on a 2 nanometer process in 2025. It will therefore adopt the nanosheets technology for better performance. The technology, which TSMC itself describes as N2, promises up to 15 percent more speed or 25 to 30 […]
