Guardian parent company in talks over potential sale of Observer | The Observer
The Guardian's parent company has announced that it is in formal negotiations with Tortoise Media over the potential sale of The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. The Guardian Media Group (GMG) told Stuff it was in talks with the Observer after receiving enough proposals to be worth considering in more detail. The company said […]
The Observer view on the global IT crash: lessons must be learned from CrowdStrike fiasco | Observer editorial
oh“Epic IT crashThe “terror attack” that temporarily brought the West to a halt was the result of human error, not a Russian cyber attack. SolarWinds Hacked A similar incident occurred in 2020. Last week’s outage was caused by an update that CrowdStrike, a major U.S. cybersecurity firm, pushed out to its corporate customers early Friday […]
Microsoft drops observer seat on OpenAI board that sparked scrutiny
Microsoft on Tuesday stepped down from its observer role on OpenAI’s board of directors amid increased scrutiny of the partnership between the two tech giants from antitrust regulators in the United States and Europe. Microsoft sent a letter to the artificial intelligence company that develops ChatGPT on Tuesday saying it was relinquishing its “immediate” observer […]