Remember “Volt Typhoon?” That was the name given to a group of Chinese hackers who were identified last year by Microsoft. Volt Typhoon was a state sponsored effort to gain access to US infrastructure including communications and utilities. At the time, FBI Director Christopher Wray said this about the effort. “The fact is, the PRC’s...
Alex Green BBC News, South West Google Six fire engines have been sent to the scene in the St David’s area A fire has broken out at an electrical substation, leaving hundreds of homes without power. Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue Service said it had received multiple 999 calls about a blaze off Fore...
PA Media A rose has been named after Catherine, Princess of Wales to highlight the healing power of nature. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it called the flower ‘Catherine’s Rose’ to raise awareness of the role that spending time outdoors plays in supporting people’s mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. The floribunda rose has coral-pink...
The day Germany’s new leader entered office will now forever be remembered for a very public failure. Friedrich Merz’s initial, shock defeat – in his bid to become chancellor – sparked hours of chaotic uncertainty. A man who’d been working to project strength and purpose instead became mired in political intrigue and division. Merz may...
A key thing to understand about liberals is that they don’t actually care about the results of their policies. If they don’t work out as planned, it’s not their fault; it is due to some flaw in implementation, reality itself, or the human beings who (predictably) couldn’t make their utopian plans work. “Real communism hasn’t...
Chrissie Mayr still isn’t backing down — not from hecklers, not from the mainstream media, and certainly not from the woke establishment that wants to suppress laughs in favor of “regime comedy” and clapter. Two years ago, they all came after Mayr. First, she did an extemporaneous riff on Dylan Mulvaney that drew protests by...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images Following this week’s local elections, Reform UK has, for the first time, won control of local councils. It is now in charge in 10 areas, and there are a further four where it is the largest party. The party also has two new mayors in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull...
One of Japan’s busiest bullet train lines came to a halt after a snake tangled itself in a power line, causing a power outage. Tokaido Shinkansen trains running between Tokyo and Osaka were suspended from around 17:25 local time on Wednesday. Services resumed at around 19:00 local time, operator Central Japan Railway Company said, according...
What prompted a system-wide failure in Spain’s power grid on Monday? Thus far, officials in Spain and Portugal remain tight-lipped, leading to a free-wheeling speculation market for armchair sleuths. Was it sabotage? Incompetence? Or bad public policy that made the grid unable to adjust to variables? Jim Geraghty has a great round-up this morning at...
At least three people have died in Spain in an incident linked to a massive power cut that shut the country down on Monday, the Civil Guard has told the BBC. They died in the north-west municipality of Taboadela and were from the same family, according to Spanish media. Police are reportedly investigating whether carbon...
André Rhoden-Paul BBC News EPA People use candles in the streets of the city Ourense in north-western Spain The power is out and nothing is working. How am I supposed to get through the day? That was the question faced by millions of people on Monday across Spain and Portugal during the worst electricity blackout...
Mirra Andreeva had just stepped up to the baseline to serve for a place in the Madrid Open quarter-finals when the power went out. A sweeping outage left millions in Spain, Portugal and parts of France without power, causing chaos across many regions. At the Spanish tennis tournament, the electronic line-calling system went down, with...
Power is returning to Spain and Portugal – but there are still huge queues at the Atocha train station in Madrid, as the city deals with the fallout of the outage. The cause of the power cuts are still unknown – Portugal’s Prime Minister LuÃs Montenegro says there is “no indication” of a cyber attack,...
Residents applauded in Madrid as the lights came back on, after a huge power cut brought parts of Spain and Portugal to a standstill on Monday. A state of emergency was declared in Spain, as the mass blackout grounded flights and caused traffic chaos. The cause of the disruption remains under investigation. Read full article...
What do we know so far about the huge power outages? Read full article at source...