Criminals will seek to exploit mass IT outage, CrowdStrike boss warns
China swerved worst of global tech meltdown – here's how
Nick Marsh
Asia business reporter
While most of the world was grappling with the blue screen of death on Friday, one country that managed to escape largely unscathed was China.
The reason is actually quite simple: CrowdStrike is hardly used there.
Very few organisations will buy software from an American firm that, in the past, has been vocal about the cyber-security threat posed by Beijing.
Cyber agencies in the UK and Australia are urging people to be vigilant to fake emails, calls and websites that pretend to be official
Thousands of flights were cancelled and banking, healthcare and payment systems were affected by the mass outage
Although many airports say their IT systems are working again, travellers continue to face disruption as airlines try to recover from the outage's impact
Bangladesh police given ‘shoot-on-sight’ orders amid national curfew
Citizens confined to homes with no internet access as student-led protests lead to deadly clashes with authorities
Police in Bangladesh have been granted “shoot-on-sight” orders and a nationwide curfew has been imposed as student-led protests continue to roil the country, leaving more than 100 people dead.
The curfew, imposed at midnight on Friday, was expected to last until Sunday morning as police tried to bring the swiftly deteriorating security situation under control, with military personnel patrolling the streets of the capital.
The curfew was lifted briefly on Saturday afternoon to allow people to run essential errands, but otherwise people have been ordered to remain at home and all gatherings and demonstrations have been banned. The government has also imposed a communications blackout, with all internet and social media access blocked since Thursday night.
Ukrainian nationalist ex-lawmaker Iryna Farion shot dead
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned the killing and directed security services to resolve the crime. Farion had been an outspoken defender of the Ukrainian language.
Iryna Farion, a former Ukrainian nationalist politician known for speaking out in defense of the Ukrainian language and against the use of Russian, has been shot dead in Lviv, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced in the early hours of Saturday.
Farion was shot in the head outside her home on Friday evening by an unknown gunman. She later died from her injuries at a local hospital.
French police clash with demonstrators at grain port protests against reservoirs
Five protesters and a police officer were injured during a mobilisation against irrigation reservoirs being built on France's Atlantic coast. Critics of the massive infrastructure projects say that they will benefit larger agricultural producers at the expense of small farmers.
Environmental protesters clashed with police in France's western port of La Rochelle Saturday, AFP journalists saw, as conservationists and small farmers mobilised against massive irrigation reservoirs under construction.
A 2,000-strong march, one of two through the city, was turned back and broke up at around 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) after being charged by police.
Running battles erupted around barricades and burning rubbish bins as some threw projectiles and police fired tear gas grenades.
"We were in the demo, they started blocking ahead and behind. They isolated us off to one side to charge everyone else," said Lilia, a 25-year-old who declined to give her second name.
Accidentally exposed yellowish-green crystals reveal ‘mind-blowing’ finding on Mars, scientists say
The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. And it all began when the 1-ton rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open, revealing yellowish-green crystals never spotted before on the red planet.
“I think it’s the strangest find of the whole mission and the most unexpected,” said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “I have to say, there’s a lot of luck involved here. Not every rock has something interesting inside.”
The Curiosity team was eager for the rover to investigate the Gediz Vallis channel, a winding groove that appears to have been created 3 billion years ago by a mix of flowing water and debris. The channel is carved into part of the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) Mount Sharp. The rover has been scaling the mountain since 2014.
Turkey’s Erdogan, Cyprus president see different paths for divided island
Turkish leader says he sees no point in UN-led talks as Christodoulides declares reunification is the only way forward.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was in northern Cyprus to mark 50 years since the invasion by Turkish forces, has said he sees no point in continuing United Nations-led negotiations on the Mediterranean island’s future.
“We believe that a federal solution is not possible in Cyprus. It is of no benefit to anyone to say let’s continue negotiations where we left off in Switzerland years ago,” Erdogan said in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Saturday.
Northern Cyprus is a breakaway state recognised only by Turkey, and its Turkish Cypriot leadership wants international recognition.
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