The discovery of Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients
Out in the universe, there exist mysterious and powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOT) and new research may finally have some answers as to where these strange blasts come from.Scientists have been trying to figure out the origins of LFBOTs for quite some time and have even proposed a
Twitch to act on fake inflated view numbers from appearing across the platform
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has announced a new system to punish streamers who use viewbots to fake their viewer numbers. The platform said it has been working on this problem for a long time because many creators use outside services to make their streams look more popular than they really are. Twitch says this hurts
Google settles racial discrimination lawsuit
Google has settled with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022. April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claimed the
Discord outage affecting messages and logins
The outage is hitting the basics hard. Messages are not loading, new ones are not going through and users are having trouble getting into their accounts altogether. Yahoo Tech confirmed the issues firsthand, noting that Discord was failing to load messages and not sending new ones on their own devices.Discord put out an update on
Cloudflare cuts 1,100 jobs despite record revenue
Cloudflare recently announced one of the biggest workforce cuts in its history, saying advances in artificial intelligence have made around 1,100 jobs obsolete even as the company reported record quarterly revenue growth. The internet infrastructure and cybersecurity company said it is reducing its workforce by nearly 20 per cent, affecting employees across multiple teams and
Amazon cloud outage
Amazon’s cloud services were largely back online on Friday after overheating at one of its data centers triggered an outage that impacted companies including cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The cloud giant said it was making progress in resolving the issue after a rapid spike in temperatures at a single data center in northern Virginia on Thursday
A Chinese military court gave suspended death sentences to two former defence ministers
The court said Wei Fenghe was guilty of accepting bribes and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. It said Li Shangfu was guilty of accepting and offering bribes, and handed him the same sentence. Suspended death sentences are often commuted to life in prison in China. The sentences are the latest in Chinese President
US, Iran weigh 30-day ceasefire plan
Iran and the US are discussing a temporary framework that could pause hostilities, reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and create space for broader negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the New York Times reported, citing three senior Iranian officials familiar with the talks. The proposed interim framework centres on three immediate steps: lifting
Ukrainian forces battlefield success
Ukrainian forces say they’re intercepting roughly 90% of the Russian drones launched in frequent attacks, and the head of the UK Royal Air Force told Business Insider that Britain is learning from Kyiv’s battlefield successes. Britain and its NATO allies, including the US, are using lessons from Ukraine and the latest Middle East conflict to
The UU.S. trade court ruled against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest 10 per cent global tariffs,
The U.S. trade court on Thursday ruled against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest 10 per cent global tariffs, finding across-the-board tariffs were not justified under a 1970s trade law. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled in favour of small businesses that challenged the tariffs, which took effect on February 24. The ruling was 2-1,