🌬️ Energy prices in Europe hit records after wind stops blowing
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Energy prices in Europe hit records after wind stops blowing. Natural gas and electricity markets were already surging in Europe when a fresh catalyst emerged: The wind in the stormy North Sea stopped blowing. The sudden slowdown in wind-driven electricity production off the coast of the U.K. in recent weeks whipsawed through regional energy markets. (Joe Wallace via Wall Street Journal)
Technology giant Olympus hit by BlackMatter ransomware. Olympus said in a brief statement that it is “currently investigating a potential cybersecurity incident” affecting its European, Middle East and Africa computer network. “Upon detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts, and we are currently working with the highest priority to resolve this issue. (Zack Whittaker via TechCrunch)
Racist emojis are the latest test for Facebook, Twitter moderators. In a soccer game in Liverpool's Goodison Park in 1988, player John Barnes stepped away from his position and used the back of his heel to kick away a banana that had been thrown toward him. (Ivan Levingston via Bloomberg)
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft's default browser protections in Windows. Mozilla has quietly made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows recently. While Microsoft offers a method to switch default browsers on Windows 10, it's more cumbersome than the simple one-click process to switch to Edge. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
The Unwritten Rules of Black TV. Carl Winslow, the protagonist of the '90s sitcom Family Matters, wore his badge with honor. On the show, about a middle-class Black household in Chicago, Winslow (played by Reginald VelJohnson) loved being a police officer almost as much as he… (Hannah Giorgis via The Atlantic)
What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear. For years a concept known as “zero trust” has been a go-to cybersecurity catchphrase, so much so that even the notoriously dilatory federal IT apparatus is going all in. (Lily Hay Newman via WIRED)
YouTube is also forcing the popular Rythm Discord music bot offline. Just weeks after forcing the Groovy Discord music bot offline, Google-owned YouTube is now turning its attention to Rythm, the most popular music bot on Discord. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
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