What really counts as a hard drive failure? That’s the question at the center of Backblaze’s Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives across its global data centers. The latest findings build on more than a decade…
Worth a shout? Yelling is best way to deter gulls, UK study suggests
Animal behaviourists tested 61 gulls in Cornwall to find most effective method of countering feathery threat Some people respond to the unwanted attentions of a gull eyeing up a bag of chips or a Cornish pasty by frantically flapping their hands at the…
The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands
Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring MaliOn a recent afternoon, 67-year-old Saif Islam made his way into the courtyard of a library in Chinguetti, a tiny desert settlement …
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drillingRenewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s energy wat…
What It Takes to Move a Factory From China to Vietnam
Tariffs have forced Chinese companies to move their operations to Vietnam. Alexandra Stevenson, our Shanghai bureau chief, visits a factory in Ho Chi Minh City to see how one of the biggest challenges isn’t relocating machinery and tools, but overcomin…
Healthcare Resolves Less Than Two-Thirds of “Serious” Security Findings
Healthcare organizations struggle to recover after a cyberattack.
Economic Uncertainty Leads to Additional Security Risks
Security risks amplified by economic uncertainty.
Mozilla Issues Urgent Firefox Update to Patch Critical Code Execution Flaws
The Mozilla Foundation released three critical security advisories on November 11, 2025, addressing 16 unique vulnerabilities across multiple Firefox versions and platforms. The updates target Firefox 145, Firefox ESR 115.30, and Firefox ESR 140.5, wit…
Bridge in China Partially Collapses
A section of the Shuangjiangkou Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan Province, China, collapsed and sent huge plumes of dust into the air on Tuesday.
Wealthy foreigners ‘paid for weekend safaris to kill civilians’ during siege of Sarajevo
An investigation has been launched into claims that gun enthusiasts and far-right extremists travelled to the war-torn city in the 1990s with sniper rifles to pick off terrified Bosnians “for fun”.