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515-Mile Swath of Lightning Caught From Space
Researchers used space-based instruments to measure a record-setting 515-mile lightning bolt that lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records. Thanks to advanced satellite ...
Data Suggests 60% of Enterprise Firewalls Fail Compliance Checks
New data derived from FireMon customer onboarding revealed that 60 percent of enterprise firewalls fail high-severity compliance checks immediately upon evaluation, with another 34 percent falling ...
Derechos Are Uncommon But Destructive Weather Events
Prolonged wind events that unleash heavy rainfall and travel far distances sometimes qualify as derechos. Derechos can happen almost anywhere in the United States but are most common in the central ...
Jury Decides Tesla Partly Responsible in Autopilot Crash Case; Must Pay $243M
A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk's car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 ...
Report Highlights Significant Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Workflows
More than half of organizations experience mission-critical failures in their workflows, highlighting the need for secure collaboration platforms, a study by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ...
Derecho’s 99 MPH Gust Swept Through Upper Plains, Midwest
Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as ...
Hybrid Work, Cybersecurity Threats Expose Urgent Gap in Device Management: Warning
Despite businesses facing escalating cybersecurity threats and increasing device complexity brought on by hybrid work models, new insights from global IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research ...
8.8 Russia Quake Triggers Tsunami Warnings for Hawaii, California
A very powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and was followed by an eruption of ...