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The Paris Olympics, starting on July 26, are expected to garner four billion eyeballs around the globe. Here are some other figures that might surprise you.

It was a bad day for one race car-driving cybersecurity billionaire’s company—and wallet.

The ‘blue screen of death’ descended on computers around the world on Friday. Here are the immediate, short, and long-term things you can do to ensure your system is up and running.

The firm at the heart of the global IT outage was created to ‘reinvent security for the cloud era,’ according to company documents. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, listed on NASDAQ, and is valued at $124 billion.

Woolworths, ABC, Telstra, The Australian, and are among the companies that have been impacted. Sydney Airport confirmed technical outages today. US airlines Frontier, Allegiant and SunCountry also reported their operations have been impacted due to outages.

At least 12.9 million Australians had their data stolen in the MediSecure hack earlier this year. But the eScripts provider now says it is unable to identify specific individuals affected in what is one of the largest breaches in the nation’s history.

Netflix had previously eliminated its ad-free subscription plan for new customers in the U.S., and the streaming giant will now scrap it for existing customers

Biden is facing increasing pressure from onetime allies like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to reconsider his 2024 bid—and some Democrats think Biden could drop out as early as this weekend.

In 2019, Sadi Khan founded Aven. Five years on, it has hit a $1 billion valuation and is backed by big-name investors. But is it a good idea?

Buy now pay later firm Zip Co has banked $217 million in equity, and says it’ll use the funds to pay off its corporate debts.