Technology

The ‘blue screen of death’ descended on computers around the world on Friday. Here are the immediate, short, and long-term things you can do to ensure your system is up and running.

The firm at the heart of the global IT outage was created to ‘reinvent security for the cloud era,’ according to company documents. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, listed on NASDAQ, and is valued at $124 billion.

Woolworths, ABC, Telstra, The Australian, and are among the companies that have been impacted. Sydney Airport confirmed technical outages today. US airlines Frontier, Allegiant and SunCountry also reported their operations have been impacted due to outages.

Netflix had previously eliminated its ad-free subscription plan for new customers in the U.S., and the streaming giant will now scrap it for existing customers

In 2019, Sadi Khan founded Aven. Five years on, it has hit a $1 billion valuation and is backed by big-name investors. But is it a good idea?

Buy now pay later firm Zip Co has banked $217 million in equity, and says it’ll use the funds to pay off its corporate debts.

Large technology stocks flails as lower interest rates appear on deck and investors view a Trump presidency as increasingly likely.

Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly claimed developers of his $27 million San Francisco estate rushed to sell the property, even with shoddy construction.

Elon Musk is “hauling ass” on his supercomputer project in Memphis. But a whiplash deal, NDAs and backroom promises made to the city have lawmakers demanding answers.

“You can’t align the stars any better for a BTC price acceleration” than Trump’s economic blueprint, according to Cuban, who simultaneously predicted the decline of the dollar under Trump.