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CrowdStrike has been granted a motion to dismiss a consumer class action lawsuit brought by shareholders who were affected by the now-infamous 19 July 2024 outage – prompted by a faulty sensor update – which crashed Windows PCs around the world causing widespread disruption and billions of pounds worth of losses. The suit, filed on behalf of CrowdStrike investors in August 2024, accused the defendants, who included the company’s founder and CEO George Kurtz of making false and misleading statements over the efficacy of the Falcon platform at the centre of the outage. It also alleged failings over software…
Verizon’s network appears to be having technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing “SOS” rather than the traditional network bars on their smartphones, and even the network provider’s own status page is struggling to load during the outage.Based on the experience of Verizon users on Engadget’s staff, the services that are impacted appear to be calls and wireless data. Text messages continue to be delivered normally, at least for some users. On DownDetector, reports of a Verizon outage started growing around 12PM ET and numbered in the hundreds of thousands at…
US envoy Steve Witkoff has announced the start of phase two of President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza, with a technocratic Palestinian government established in the territory.He said the second phase would also see the reconstruction and full demilitarisation of Gaza, including the disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian groups.”The US expects Hamas to comply fully with its obligations,” he warned, noting these include the return of the body of the last dead Israeli hostage. “Failure to do so will bring serious consequences.”Under phase one, Hamas and Israel agreed a ceasefire in October, as well as…
MPs have called for certainty and swift decision-making on the paused Ajax armoured vehicles project to protect jobs in south Wales.Testing of the vehicles was paused and several investigations are being conducted after around 30 soldiers became ill from noise and vibration during a training exercise last year.The multi-million pound Ajax vehicles are made in Merthyr Tydfil by General Dynamics, which employs around 700 people.The UK government said it was committed to the safety of service personnel and it was important to allow time for investigation teams to carry out their work.MPs debated the future of the programme in the…
Sony just announced January’s Game Catalog and it’s a fantastic lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on January 20.First up, there’s Resident Evil Village. This is a 2017’s Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It’s a full game with plenty of jump scares and an engrossing narrative. It’s set in a spooky village, thus the name, and a nearby castle. This shouldn’t disappoint fans of the franchise and will be available for both PS4 and PS5.Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It was a massive hit upon release, thanks to solid RPG mechanics and a…
My aunt Lulu made carrot soup over the holidays, and a bunch of people asked for the recipe… Carrot soup has always been a staple at Lulu’s house, since my grandmother Milly loved it so much. In Lulu’s beauty uniform, which we did in 2019 when my grandmother was still alive, she said, “Milly is very peaceful and cute and easy. She loves absolutely anything you do for her. One funny thing is that she always makes the same carrot soup every day. Every time, I’m like, Oh, yay, thank goodness we got to the bottom of the bowl…and there…
Agents with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the home of a Washington Post reporter this week as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of leaking classified information, officials said. In a post on X, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said agents had searched the home of a journalist who allegedly “was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor”. Bondi said the contractor had been arrested. The Washington Post identified the reporter to the BBC as Hannah Natanson, who has covered how President Donald Trump’s administration has drastically reduced and…
Reform UK has announced 20 councillors have joined the party in England, including defectors from the Conservatives and the Green Party.There are 14 former Conservatives, five independents and one Green among the new batch of Reform UK councillors, who represent areas such as Stoke-on-Trent, Thanet and Bolsover.The new intake include a former BBC journalist, a man who was held hostage by Iraq, and an engineer who has quit the left-wing party led by Zack Polanski to join Reform UK.Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice MP said he was “thrilled to welcome 20 new councillors from across the political spectrum”.Reform UK…
US president Donald Trump has reiterated that he is open to Chinese and other foreign manufacturers building cars in the country – and he has even told Ford’s boss that he wants kei cars to be sold in America. Trump made his comments on a trip to Michigan, where he toured the plant in which Ford manufactures the F-150 pick-up – America’s best-selling vehicle – and delivered a speech at the Detroit Economic Club. The US government has imposed heavy tariffs on foreign cars being imported into the US, including a 100% rate on vehicles made in China that has effectively shut…
In its first ever major legal action outside the United States, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted cyber crime-as-a-service network RedVDS – whose subscribers have cheated their victims out of millions of pounds – after obtaining separate court orders in the UK and Florida. The DCU turned to the British legal system because the malicious infrastructure used to run RedVDS was hosted by a UK-based provider. A great number of victims of RedVDS users, well over 7,500, are also located in the UK, it said. “Cyber crime today is powered by shared infrastructure, which means disrupting individual attackers…