The Night the Servers Went Quiet It was a damp October night when Schleswig-Holstein’s IT command center held its collective breath. Rows of blinking servers, cables snaking like anxious veins, echoed the tension in the air. At exactly midnight, as a million city lights flickered beyond the windows, a decades-old dependency on Microsoft faded into… Continue reading German State Replaces Microsoft Exchange And Outlook With Open-source Email
Month: October 2025
Layoffs, A “Coding Error,” Chaos: White House Admin Ravages The Health Dept. | Reports Suggest The Hardest Hit Is The Cdc, Which Is Already Struggling To Function.
A Friday That Shook the CDC Picture this: It’s Friday evening at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the world’s foremost health institutions. Just as the sun sets behind the Atlanta skyline, hundreds of CDC employees—some prepping Ebola protocols, others finalizing the revered Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—receive chilling emails. “You are… Continue reading Layoffs, A “Coding Error,” Chaos: White House Admin Ravages The Health Dept. | Reports Suggest The Hardest Hit Is The Cdc, Which Is Already Struggling To Function.
No, Target And Walmart Are Not Removing Xbox Products — As Xbox Misinformation Reaches New Levels
A Scene from Suburbia: Empty Shelves and Rising Panic Under the sickly glow of fluorescent bulbs, a father and his young daughter wander the electronics aisle of a Kansas City Target. They stop, staring at a row of PlayStation and Nintendo Switch games, but where the familiar green branding of Xbox once gleamed, there’s only… Continue reading No, Target And Walmart Are Not Removing Xbox Products — As Xbox Misinformation Reaches New Levels
California Will Stop Using Coal As A Power Source Next Month
The Final Night at Intermountain It’s midnight, summer 2025. Out in the Utah desert, dawn creeps toward the Intermountain Power Plant—its hulking smokestacks painted gold by the low sun. The control room screens flicker as familiar noise falls away. For decades, this coal-fired colossus pumped electrons into California’s cities, invisibly weaving the state’s story into… Continue reading California Will Stop Using Coal As A Power Source Next Month
Dutch Government Takes Control Of Chinese-owned Chipmaker Nexperia
It’s an otherwise ordinary Tuesday morning at Nexperia’s sprawling semiconductor plant near Nijmegen, Netherlands. Inside, engineers fiddle with nanoscale circuits—tiny chips powering everything from cars to smartphones. Then, everything changes. With a sudden, sterile press release, the Dutch government announces it has seized “special oversight” of one of the world’s most sensitive electronics brands—owned by… Continue reading Dutch Government Takes Control Of Chinese-owned Chipmaker Nexperia
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is Getting A Whole New Location, Extra Late-game Bosses, And More To Celebrate The French Jrpg Hitting 5 Million Copies Sold: “We Hope The Update We’re Working On Will Act As A ‘Thank You'”
The Night of the Gommage — And a City Holds Its Breath In the heart of virtual Lumière, an entire city gathers in trembling silence as the clock nears midnight. Every year for 67 years, this moment arrives: The Paintress stands before the Monolith, brushes poised, ready to erase another swath of the living with… Continue reading Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is Getting A Whole New Location, Extra Late-game Bosses, And More To Celebrate The French Jrpg Hitting 5 Million Copies Sold: “We Hope The Update We’re Working On Will Act As A ‘Thank You’”
The Real Ai Risk Is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs And Annoys Us All
A New Kind of Danger The morning sun spilled through Emily Diaz’s kitchen window as she tried to reset her password for the fourth time in a week. The customer support chatbot pinged friendly, rehearsed phrases: “I understand your frustration.” But the issue never resolved. Emily, like millions, shrugged off the annoyance and went about… Continue reading The Real Ai Risk Is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs And Annoys Us All
Andrea Bartz Was Disturbed To Learn That Her Books Had Been Used To Train A.i. Chatbots. So She Sued, And Helped Win The Largest Copyright Settlement In History.
Opening Scene: The Shock of Familiarity On a misty October morning, Andrea Bartz sat in her Brooklyn apartment, sipping coffee as an email pinged on her phone. Its subject line: “Is this you?” Inside was a video—her face, her voice, her cadence. She watched, heart pounding, as “she” hawked supplements she’d never heard of. Every… Continue reading Andrea Bartz Was Disturbed To Learn That Her Books Had Been Used To Train A.i. Chatbots. So She Sued, And Helped Win The Largest Copyright Settlement In History.
Hackers Attacking Remote Desktop Protocol Services From 100,000+ Ip Addresses
Midnight: A Digital Quiet, Then the Storm Picture it: It’s late. The world’s asleep, but in server rooms across the globe, the glow of monitors betrays an uneasy silence. Suddenly, a deluge—over 30,000 digital knocks, all probing the same invisible door: Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol. Their origins? Scattershot across continents, orchestrated like a ghostly symphony.… Continue reading Hackers Attacking Remote Desktop Protocol Services From 100,000+ Ip Addresses
She Warned About Silicon Valley 25 Years Ago. We Ignored Her.
The Lonely Voice in the Valley Imagine San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood in the late 1990s—where cranes weren’t yet omnipresent, and the tech revolution was just beginning to simmer. This was the world of Ellen Ullman, a pioneering software engineer and writer, who back then was already sounding the alarm about Silicon Valley’s trajectory. Ullman’s warnings,… Continue reading She Warned About Silicon Valley 25 Years Ago. We Ignored Her.