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The world’s IT infrastructure went into meltdown on Friday - described by experts as the worst digital chaos ever seen.
Microsoft cloud-based systems were hit by blue error screens and service outages hobbling everything from bank payments to supermarkets, GP surgeries, stock exchanges, airlines, trains and television stations.
The tech disaster is understood to be linked to an update from US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike on Windows computers.
The UK Covid-19 inquiry’s bombshell report has found successive governments were totally unprepared for the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic - resulting in “fatal strategic flaws”.
Covid Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett also made a series of recommendations on future pandemic preparedness.
More than 235,000 people had died with Covid in the UK by the end of 2023 - one of the worst death tolls in Europe.
Plus, parents in a growing campaign movement are fighting back against the grip of smartphones on child wellbeing, the numbing impact of doom-scrolling and dangerous content.
Tech & Science Daily podcasts speaks with mother-of-two Léa Henry, south-east London regional lead for Smartphone Free Childhood, with more than 100,000 UK parents now signed up to the cause.
Also, a planned $600 million Nasa mission to explore the moon’s dark side has been cancelled amid concerns about manufacturing and spiralling costs.
While a biologist describes the strange feeling of emerging back into the real world from Nasa’s Mars simulation in Houston after 378 days.
