Tech Life: When the power goes
Blackouts: An internet outage in Bangladesh, and power cuts in South Africa and Cuba. Source link
Tinder parent company cuts jobs as subscriber numbers slump
Tinder’s parent company, Match Group Inc, plans to cut 6% of its global workforce amid a continued slump in users paying for its most popular dating app. The dating app…
TikTok headquarters staff hit by mass food poisoning incident
Dozens of staff at the Singapore office of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, have been hospitalised in an apparent food poisoning outbreak. Health and food safety officials in the city state…
Poor security let hackers access 40 million voters’ details
Personal details of millions of UK voters were left “vulnerable to hackers” because passwords were not changed and software not updated, the UK’s data privacy watchdog has found. The Electoral…
Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage
Technology giant Microsoft has apologised after thousands of people across the world reported issues with its products, ranging from email service Outlook to the hit game Minecraft. Downdetector, which tracks…
Zaragoza Becomes the First Spanish City to Sell NFTs – NFT Plazas
Zaragoza, the fifth biggest city in Spain and the capital of Spain’s autonomous region of Aragón, is the first Spanish city to launch NFTs. It is well known for its…
IT outage exposes fragility of tech infrastructure
As the global chaos subsides and systems continue to return online, the enormous IT outage which caused havoc around the world on Friday reveals a few uncomfortable truths about the…
Global services slowly recovering after bug causes chaos
EPA The outage has caused major delays at airports around the world Businesses and services around the world are slowly recovering after a massive IT outage affected computer systems for…
Health IT systems working but delays possible, says NHS
Getty Images Health service IT systems are back online following Friday’s global outage, according to NHS England. However, it has warned that there may still be disruption, particularly with GP…