The BBC said that its main news website and other online services were taken down on Thursday by a large web attack. The service went down at 7.00 GMT and was out for more than three hours on Thursday. Users received an error message and the broadcaster said on Twitter that the outage was due to technical problems. The BBC website is down – this is the first sign of the apocalypse right?
For the first time since early 2014, "no brainer" Apple's Enterprise Value has fallen below that of its tech giant super-hero nemesis Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google). Since early July, Apple has lost a stunning $112 billion of 'value' while Alphabet has added over $150 billion. In September we asked "have we reached peak Apple?" it appears, for now, the answer is in.
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Twitter along with other tech companies will face criminal charges if they warn users that they are being monitored by UK security services or police under the new Investigatory Powers Bill. A report in June by David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, revealed that Twitter’s policy required them to notify its users of requests to access their data “unless persuaded not to do so, typically by a court order.” But now a “disclosure provision” detailed in a note to the bill would criminalize that behavior.
Indian people in the subcontinent are in two minds as whether to take up Facebook’s offer of a free but limited internet experience for all, confined to the boundaries of the world’s largest social media network. Or, whether they should bide their time and wait for the main internet to become freely available to all, courtesy of Indian officials and future entrepreneurs.
The Pentagon have admitted that they are unprepared to deal with the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse generated as a result of a nuclear explosion, or from an EMP from a huge solar flare. Not only are the U.S. lacking in defense against EMP weapons, but they are also lagging behind in designing their own. According to the Daily Mail, a staggering 90% of the U.S. population would die following an EMP attack.