Mexico’s datacentre industry is booming – but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?

Many fear the arrival of tech giants such as Amazon and Google in the state of Querétaro will place too much of a strain on scarce water and electricity resources

CrowdStrike apologizes for global IT outage in congressional testimony

Faulty update from cybersecurity company grounded hospitals, airports and payment systems in July

Brexit deal ‘stifling’ UK-EU trade; markets rally ahead of interest rate decisions – as it happened

EU-UK trade deal continues to hurt trade with 27% drop in exports since 2021 reports Aston University

Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules

White House calls decision – that could have major implications for web use – ‘victory for the American people’

Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors

Mixed signals on tech stocks amid debate over viability of AI boom

Fears of fresh sell-off after Nvidia and Microsoft shares dip, but other chip stocks continue to rise

Microsoft beats revenue forecasts but poor performance of cloud services drags share price

Firm’s earnings were up 15% year-on-year, but Azure’s lower returns resulted in share prices falling by as much as 7%

OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race

Prototype, initially launching with select publishers and users, set to challenge Google’s dominance of online search

CrowdStrike faces backlash as ‘thank you’ gift cards are blocked

$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud

CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

TechScape: Why CrowdStrike-style chaos is here to stay

Countless theories for the cybersecurity firm’s outage are flying, but whatever the reason, the fact is that this sort of thing is likely to happen again

CrowdStrike says significant number of devices back online after global outage

But experts says full recovery from Friday’s IT failure could take weeks

The world is not quite ready for ‘digital workers’

CEO Sarah Franklin got such intense pushback on her company’s plans that she suspended them after three days

The Observer view on the global IT crash: lessons must be learned from CrowdStrike fiasco

Error that caused a global standstill reveals fragility of a networked world that has been created for efficiency rather than resilience

NHS England warns of disruption next week as global IT outage wreaks havoc

Flights continue to be cancelled while GP surgeries and hospitals will be dealing with impact of backlogs