Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on the 14th that at least four oil tankers struck mines and caught fire within hours in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC said one was a supertanker that had switched off identification systems and entered an illegal route inside a restricted area east of the Strait before striking a mine and catching fire. The IRGC warned any vessel entering the illegal route would face the same fate and accused the shipowners of trusting US statements and effec

Wire CEO Benjamin Schilz said this week’s Microsoft outage highlighted the danger of placing an organisation’s communications with a single cloud provider. He noted technology is imperfect and outages can affect any company, but said government agencies, the defence sector and critical infrastructure cannot afford reliance on a single service. Digital sovereignty, he added, means not only control of data and its storage location but the ability to keep operating under disruption. If an organisation routes all communications through one platform, it effectively ties its crisis-response capability to that same platform.

美联储在固定利率逆回购操作中总计接纳了1个对手方的3.25亿美元。