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Presentation: The Influence Toolkit

1 hour 52 minutes ago

Henry Wilson shares actionable tools from the BBC Sounds re-architecture to help senior engineering leaders drive technical strategy. He discusses building buy-in, navigating active resistors, using RFCs and ADRs, and balancing tradeoffs - showing that effective software architecture is fundamentally about communication, relationship-building, and organizational influence.

By Henry Wilson

Microsoft Races to Fix Outage, Stocks Slip of Inflation Test

1 hour 53 minutes ago
Microsoft is struggling to restore access to its flagship software half a day after an outage began, leaving users unable to access email and chat services in one of the tech giant’s most severe disruptions in recent memory. US stock futures edged lower ahead of inflation data that will cap a dramatic week of mounting bets on Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes and the ouster of Jensen Huang at Nvidia. The Opening Trade has everything you need to know as markets open across Europe. With analysis you won't find anywhere else, we break down the biggest stories of the day and speak to top guests who have skin in the game. Hosted by Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Tom Mackenzie. Correct: Graphic edited at 00;34;36;07 to update Lagarde departure month. (Source: Bloomberg)

Alice Huang Firm Procured Banned Nvidia Chips in China

1 hour 56 minutes ago
A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang, the woman at the center of a controversy dogging Nvidia Corp., procured smuggled AI chips that were installed at a Shanghai data center with links to Megaspeed International Pte, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. Some of the servers were originally sold to Aperia Cloud Services, an official Nvidia Cloud Partner headquartered in Singapore, according to a person familiar with the matter. Parmy Olson has the details. (Source: Bloomberg)

Operation Endgame Takes Down Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC Servers, Seizes 6.4M Stolen Logins

1 hour 57 minutes ago
An international police operation took down servers behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC this week. Criminals used the three malware tools to gain access to computers, steal passwords, and launch ransomware attacks. Police also seized about 6.4 million stolen logins belonging to more than 40,000 victims, according to Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Gootloader is a loader: