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Rachelle Abbott and Rochelle Travers

Microsoft says cyberattack triggered latest outage ...Tech & Science Daily podca

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Dr Harjinder Singh Lallie, Director of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education at the University of Warwick, discusses Microsoft's latest outage that was triggered by a cyberattack.

Overnight products such as email service Outlook and video game Minecraft were impacted but it has now been resolved. It comes less than two weeks after a major global outage left around 8.5 million computers using Microsoft systems inaccessible, after a flawed software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Microsoft has since issued an apology for the latest incident, which lasted almost 10 hours and caused thousands of users to report issues with the company’s services.

Scientists say that spaceships with warp-drive technology could be detected by looking for ripples in spacetime. Dr Katy Clough, the study’s lead author from Queen Mary University of London, tells Tech & Science Daily about the research and what it tells us.

Authorities are warning that the risk of wildfires is currently high or extreme across most of southern Europe - as many Brits prepare to take their summer holidays in destinations across the area.

The fire danger map by the European Union's European Forest Fire Information System,

has turned shades of dark orange and deep red across the continent, the areas most at risk are eastern Spain, the 'boot' of southern Italy, and parts of Greece, which have now been marked in black.

And the rest

OpenAI’s ChatGPT starts roll out of its new voice mode, Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for babies, and why 'three second' goldfish memory is a myth.

You can listen to the episode in the player above, find us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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