Business
AI's 'Black October': Critical PHP flaws set off global security scramble
Governments and businesses around the globe are scrambling to contain the fallout after the PHP vulnerabilities leaked online.
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Governments
Business
Musk's clash with Ukraine accelerates demand for Starlink alternatives. Few exist
Governments or companies looking for an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink are faced with few options, as Amazon, Eutelsat and others are far behind.
Business
Why governments pulled websites offline over the decades-old PHP programming language
Servers that use the popular PHP programming language were exposed to a critical security bug. Millions of websites have their data at risk.
World
Governments working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning
Governments and companies are scrambling to protect their websites, as Amazon says it experienced attacks before the warning was made public.
Politics
Africa’s governments already treat the internet as protest infrastructure. Its courts have not caught up
In 2024 the African Commission itself adopted a resolution on internet shutdowns during elections. The resolution treats a shutdown as a harm to expression and access to information...
World
Bangladesh: Protests can change governments, but can they strengthen democracy?
Bangladesh’s 2024 uprising toppled a government, but two years later, reforms to police, judiciary, cyber laws, and state institutions remain contested, incomplete, and debated, leaving citizens asking whether real change occurred.
Health
Governments agree to continue their steady progress on proposed pandemic agreement ahead of the World Health Assembly
Governments of the world today agreed to continue working on a proposed pandemic agreement, and to further refine the draft, ahead of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly that starts 27 May 2024. Governments meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva agreed to resume hybrid and in-person discussions over coming weeks to advance work on critical issues, including around a proposed new global system for pathogen access and benefits sharing (i.e. life-saving vaccines, treatments and diagnostics); pandemic prevention and One Health; and the financial coordination needed t