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US military 'war room' jet spotted leaving Washington DC as unrest grips the nation

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Step inside the 'top secret' bunker where Britain prepared for nuclear WAR: Nottingham War Rooms are revealed for the first time in incredible 3D scans

Daily Mail - Science & tech

It was once one of Cold War Britain's best-kept secrets. But now, you can take a look inside the'top secret' bunker where the government prepared for nuclear war. For the very first time, incredible 3D scans reveal the interior of the Nottingham War Rooms. Built between 1952 and 1953, the rooms protected one of the 11 Regional Seats of Government which would have controlled the surviving population in the event of an atomic blast. Inside, you can still see the original dormitories, kitchens, and offices built to house up to 400 government officials.


Covid crisis shifts supply chain management from efficiency to resilience

#artificialintelligence

Looked at on a world scale, the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to deliver shocks to global supply chains for some time to come. Even if the public health crisis abates in the UK, our economy is part of a global economy, and UK corporate IT will have its work cut out in supporting companies as they are forced to re-forge supply chains, perhaps over and over again, and at short notice. The crisis has provoked some rethinking of how the world economy ought to work, with an emphasis on the desirability of a shift from efficiency – doing things "just in time" – to resilience – building in more slack. The FT's Rana Faroohar provides an account of such rethinking in an article entitled From'just in time' to'just in case' published earlier this year. In the discussions which lie behind this article there are different emphases on a spectrum of opinion: some say we can have both efficiency and resilience equally, others that there is a choice to be made for one or the other, and yet others say it's a matter of balance, of trading off. Tony Harris, global vice-president of business network solutions at SAP, says it has to be a combination. "You wouldn't want to move to a resilient network or supply chain that wasn't also efficient," he says.


Digital Brief: Far-right falsities

#artificialintelligence

Welcome to EURACTIV's Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. With the Brits and the Dutch heading to the polls today, the big news of the week is the story that Facebook has removed around 80 pages spreading fake news or using tactics aimed at unfairly influencing the polls. The takedowns came following a discovery by the human rights group Avaaz, in which it uncovered far-right disinformation networks in France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland, posting content that was viewed an estimated 533 million times over the past three months. EURACTIV Digital went to investigate further and paid Avaaz a visit at their recently opened'Citizens' War Room' in Brussels (pictured below).


The Friendship That Made Google Huge

The New Yorker

One day in March of 2000, six of Google's best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the Web to build an "index" of it, had stopped working. Although users could still type in queries at google.com, the results they received were five months out of date. More was at stake than the engineers realized. Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were negotiating a deal to power a search engine for Yahoo, and they'd promised to deliver an index ten times bigger than the one they had at the time--one capable of keeping up with the World Wide Web, which had doubled in size the previous year.


Apple Data Downloads, A Dating App for Trump Fans, and More Security News This Week

WIRED

As has become an unwelcome tradition, as Friday wound down and the weekend was so close we could nearly taste it, breaking news hit. The biggest Friday night bombshell came in the form of an indictment of a Russian national engaged in a massive conspiracy to influence the upcoming midterm elections. With millions of dollars at her disposal, she and her co-conspirators have allegedly been engaging in a coordinated effort to use Americans' weaknesses and divisions against us, to amp up racial discord, and generally sow chaos and discontent. Of course, it wasn't like the week had been drama free up until that point. The fun, if you can call it that, began last Saturday, when Robert Mueller expert Garrett Graff explained what he expected to see next from the investigation into Russia's attack on the 2016 election.


Amazon sets up its war rooms for Prime Day

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

If you're looking for a good deal, we're here to help. A piñata in the Amazon conference room where Prime Day coordinators gathered in 2015 to oversee the company's first Prime Day sale. The original event was code-named piñata. SEATTLE--At Amazon headquarters here, two floors of conference rooms are outfitted as war rooms, the better to absorb the crushing blow of 85 million Prime shoppers feverishly tapping on the best slow cooker deals. Prime Day (or Prime Day plus six hours) is almost here.