Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’ 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 airports, healthcare services and businesses were hit by the “largest

Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations has affected major companies, including Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport and Thameslink Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows worksta

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres If you want evidence of Microsoft’s progress towards its environmental “moonshot” goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial estate. The company’s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment [&helli

Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trial Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently cure cancer. Melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest s

International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023 Electric and plug-in hybrid car sales will jump to a new global record in 2024 despite slowing growth in some markets, according to forecasts from the influential International Energy Agency (IEA). The Paris-based forecaster said that 17m [&hel

South Korean firm regains pole position amid biggest drop in iPhone sales since Covid-19 lockdowns Apple has lost its spot as the world’s biggest mobile phone seller after a steep sales drop as South Korean rival Samsung retook the lead in the global market share. Samsung had been the biggest seller of mobile phones for 12 years […

Child safety group says Meta ‘putting profits before protecting children’, as messaging app lowers age limit from 16 Campaigners have reacted with anger to the social media company Meta lowering age restrictions for WhatsApp users to 13 in the UK and EU. The change to the messaging app, which reduces the age limit from 16 to 13, […

Design Museum, LondonFrom his steel-bar fruit bowl to his troop of wooden animals, the combative creator railed against ‘the rampant consumption of luxury furniture’ – despite his own hefty price tags Shortly before the maverick Italian designer Enzo Mari died in 2020, he donated his archive to the city of Milan with one condition: it must [&h

Australians travelling this Easter should avoid using public phone chargers such as those installed at airports, tech experts have warned. The FBI in the US issued a warning yesterday over the risks of plugging into free communal charging stations – potentially exposing them to ‘juice jacking’. And tech experts say Austr