Cyber incidents drive shareholder value down

A major cyber incident resulted in a 9% decrease in shareholder value – over and above the market – in the year following an event. This is the headline finding from Aon’s 2023 Cyber Resilience Report, which helps business leaders benchmark their...

What Americans know about AI, security and big tech

While digital literacy is widely seen as an essential skill, Americans’ understanding of digital topics varies notably depending on the subject, according to a new report from Pew Research Centre. The report finds that Americans answer a median of five out of...

Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon

Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years has failed, after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into moon. The state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Sunday (August 20), that it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem...

4th Gen AMD EPYC powers Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that...

Adobe co-founder Dr John Warnock dies

Adobe co-founder, Dr John Warnock, died on Saturday (19 August 2023), at the age of 82 Dr Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, new technology that sparked the desktop...

Massive surge for photo, video apps

As a key part of the social media experience, photo and video sharing has evolved over the past years. Today, photo and video apps have more users than ever, thanks to hundreds of millions of people willing to spend money on brushing up their digital presence and...