A Ransomware Hit Silences a Corner of Japan’s Cloud
Around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, an automatic shutdown system inside a data center in Shirakawa, a city in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, sensed something wrong and cut the network. By morning,…
Apple’s Doorbell Will Say LG on the Box
When Apple’s long-awaited smart-home devices reach store shelves, the name printed on the box will not be Apple’s. The video doorbell, the deadbolt lock and the thermostat that Bloomberg reported…
A Quantum Startup Takes Its Chips to a Mainstream Factory
The hardest problem in quantum computing is not the math. It is the factory. The exotic chips that run quantum machines have long been made in small batches by the…
New York Declares Emergency as Measles Returns to Rural Counties
The numbers arrived county by county, and by the first week of October they had passed a line no one wanted to cross. New York State has confirmed 108 measles…
To Break a Short-Video Habit, a Neuroscientist Reaches for a Lockbox
The box sits on the desk, closed, and for the next few hours the phone is inside it. The person who put it there did not act on a whim;…
Microsoft’s Office and Research Chiefs Head for the Exit
Ryan Roslansky spent nearly two decades climbing through LinkedIn and Microsoft, first as the professional network’s chief product officer, then as its chief executive, and most recently as the executive…
LG Adds a Virginia Chiller Plant to Ride the AI Data-Center Boom
LG Electronics built its name selling televisions and washing machines to households. On Wednesday it placed a bet on a very different customer — the companies racing to build the…
DoorDash Air’s Drone Starts on the Ground
Harrison Shih runs a drone program at DoorDash where the aircraft came last. The head of the company’s new air-delivery service spent the early work on packaging, loading systems and…
FedEx Bets $300 Million on an Electric-Truck Startup’s Single Model
FedEx has spent years buying electric delivery vehicles one pilot order at a time. On Sept. 30 it committed to a single supplier in a single stroke: 2,000 medium-duty electric…
Pentagon Personnel Agency Says a File-Sharing Flaw Exposed Troop Data for Months
The letter arrived without a number. It told recipients that “a small number of unauthorized users” had reached a file-sharing system run by the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon’s…
