Category: Technology

It’s been a tough few weeks for frequent fliers. The holiday break left thousands of Southwest Airlines passengers stranded or facing lengthy delays, as the combination of extreme weather and outdated technology significantly disrupted its operations. Now, the Federal Aviation Agency’s notice to air missions outage left thousands more passengers facing delays and flight cancellations. […]

A new way to show your political affiliation may be emerging, and it’s close to home. So close, you’ll find it in your kitchen.  A debate over gas stoves reignited this week and fell along ideological lines in the US: As researchers, regulators, and Democratic politicians are pointing out the problematic emissions from gas appliances, […]

Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded flights across the US on January 11, 2023. Getty Images | Saul Loeb A Notice to Air Missions system outage that grounded flights across the US yesterday morning seems to have been caused by a […]

Despite all the digitalization of tools and advancements in automation, humans are often described as the most important element in cybersecurity, and for good reason. “Security is a people business,” Timothy Youngblood, SVP, CSO and product security officer at T-Mobile, said Friday at CES in Las Vegas. “I call all of my partners in this […]

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Scott Spradley, EVP and chief technology and automation officer of Tyson Foods, has left the company, the company said in an SEC filing Monday. At Tyson, Spradley, who joined the company in 2017, was responsible […]

Fortinet An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report on Wednesday. Tracked as ​​CVE-2022-42475, the vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code. It carries a severity rating […]

Dive Brief: For the second consecutive year, disputes over cybersecurity and data represent the greatest global risk to organizations, according to a report from Baker McKenzie.  The majority, 3 in 5, of senior legal and risk officers name cybersecurity and data as presenting the greatest risk to organizations, according to the firm’s 2023 Global Disputes Survey, […]

Whether you’re going on a trip or suffering from patchy internet, downloading videos to watch offline makes for a smoother experience. All the best streaming services offer some way to download content for offline viewing. Here, we walk you through the process—with some additional recommendations on expanding your device’s storage. Before we start, you’ll need […]

Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation’s feather logo. The photo is part of a set aiming to recreate a similar image taken around the time of the foundation’s launch. A group representing […]

Gone are the days when customers stand in long bank queues. Previously, the bank customer would stand in line, almost longer than the time they took to visit with their soul mate or better half. Today we shop where we trust and feel esteemed. We, as customers, will pay for the prime help and great […]