0

Omicron exposes inflexibility of Europe’s public hospitals

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — A World Well being Group official warned final week of a “closing window of alternative” for European international locations to forestall their well being care techniques from being overwhelmed because the omicron variant produces near-vertical development in coronavirus infections.

In France, Britain and Spain, nations with comparatively sturdy nationwide well being packages, that window might already be closed.

The director of an intensive care unit at a hospital in Strasbourg is popping sufferers away. A surgeon at a London hospital describes a important delay in a person’s most cancers analysis. Spain is seeing its willpower to

Jean Friend

Supply Chain News

0

Expertise woes: Stokes’ overstepping exposes Ashes downside

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — There was one obtrusive mis-step from Ben Stokes which price England a wicket on the second morning of the Ashes, giving Australian opener David Warner a reprieve when he was on 17.

It quickly emerged that Stokes, bowling his first over in a take a look at match since March, had additionally overstepped the crease on his earlier three deliveries and never been known as for a no-ball by the umpires.

Later nonetheless, Australia’s Ashes broadcaster Channel 7 revealed Stokes had overstepped the entrance crease 14 instances in Thursdays’ opening session and had solely been known

Jean Friend

Supply Chain News

0

No password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts

Getty Images

Q Link Wireless, a provider of low-cost mobile phone and data services to 2 million US-based customers, has been making sensitive account data available to anyone who knows a valid phone number on the carrier’s network, an analysis of the company’s account management app shows.

Dania, Florida-based Q Link Wireless is what’s known as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, meaning it doesn’t operate its own wireless network but rather buys services in bulk from other carriers and resells them. It provides government-subsidized phones and service to low-income consumers through the FCC’s Lifeline Program. It also offers

Jean Friend

Supply Chain News

0

Verkada hack exposes growing intimacy and danger of American surveillance

With a single breach, those scenes — and glimpses from more than 149,000 security cameras — were suddenly revealed to hackers, who had used high-level log-in credentials to access and plunder Verkada’s vast camera network.

A hacker shared some of the materials with The Washington Post to spotlight the security threat of widespread surveillance technologies that subject the public to near-constant watch.

The cache includes real-world images and videos as well as the company’s voluminous client list, which names more than 24,000 organizations across a vast cross-section of American life, including schools, offices, gyms, banks, health clinics and county jails.

News Magazine