In the early morning hours of 20 October, issues regarding a single service allegedly caused major disruptions to the basic things that make our lives functional. Canvas crashed, disrupting learning nationwide. Lloyds Bank customers lost access to their accounts. Some United Airlines flyers could not check in or view their reservations. People's alarms didn't go off. There are too many examples to list, it was a full meltdown. To some, what happened on 20 October was an example of Big Tech
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A US government shutdown affects about 800,000 federal employees out of 1.8 million full-time civil servants. About 380,000 are furloughed, meaning they cannot work or get paid. The rest are working without pay. A government shutdown can cause financial hardship for many federal employees, who may have to use their savings to survive while furloughed.
Nearly 85% of US cybersecurity agency CISA staff may be sent home at the end of the week as a government shutdown looms. The US government wil
"The production lines are at a standstill everywhere." The problems at VW were bigger than initially thought: The IT disruption is not only global, it also affects Audi in addition to Volkswagen. An update from 27 September: The disruption at Volkswagen (VW) seems bigger than initially known and it does not only affect the Volkswagen production facilities. The VW subsidiary Audi and Porsche were also affected by the IT disruption, as an Audi spokeswoman admitted. The extent to which this is
