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Hospitals across the country fell back on pen and paper this week to keep operating through a major national cyber-attack, and it worked. The low-tech response is drawing attention not as a failure of modern systems, but as a reminder that resilience sometimes means knowing when to unplug entirely.
On a very different kind of threat, researchers are warning that Airbnb-related scams have surged thirty times over since the first half of two thousand twenty three, with criminals increasingly hijacking legitimate host accounts rather than creating fake ones. That makes them harder to spot, and experts say the usual advice about trusting verified listings may no longer be enough heading into peak summer travel.
And from the world of hardware, a company called Senao quietly showed off something unusual at Computex two thousand twenty six — a PCIe card that is, functionally, a full server. We are talking thirty eight Xeon cores, sixty four gigabytes of RAM, dual NVMe drives, and two hundred gigabits per second networking, all slotting into a standard card bay. It even charges your phone. Whether the market needs a server in that form factor is another question entirely.
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