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• Trump being re-elected wouldn't mean the end of NATO, the alliance's chief said.
• Jens Stoltenberg said it's "important not to create self-fulfilling prophecies."
• Stoltenberg said leaders would need to engage with Trump like they did in 2016.

The head of NATO said former

• A major global IT outage is disrupting flights, retailers, and media outlets among other businesses. 
• It emerged after Microsoft reported problems with its online services.
• Here are photos showing the effects of the huge IT outage worldwide.

Major airlines, banks, hospitals, and

• A global IT outage saw airports in Belfast and Singapore handwrite flight information.
• A Belfast International Airport spokesperson told BI all systems have since been restored.
• Singapore Changi Airport also said some airlines were manually issuing boarding passes.

Staff at several airports had to

• Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz said a mass outage was not caused by a cyberattack.
• He said customers were affected "by a defect found in a single content update for Windows."
• The issue was "identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," Kurtz said.

Crowdstrike, the firm linked to the major global IT

• Joe Biden's reelection bid is looking less and less tenable. 
• Top Democrats, including Barack Obama, are said to be encouraging him to give up. 
• Biden's holding on, but each new voice weakens him further.

As former President Donald Trump was delivering his marathon speech at the RNC Thursday night, President Joe

Google is raising its minimum quality requirements for Android apps and will soon remove those that don’t meet expectations from the Play Store. According to the company’s latest spam policy update, apps that demonstrate “limited functionality and content” — such as text

The mining of technology nostalgia is unrelenting. Earlier this week, we had an unofficial return of the iPod, not to mention Tamagotchis and now Discman. Well, not an actual Discman, which is a Sony brand, but the portable CD player is back.

Audiophile brand FiiO has launched the DM13, a portable CD player with modern touches, like high-fidelity wireless and a built-in battery. No more AAs! The

• IT systems across the world are suffering widespread outages.
• Disruptions have hit everything from airports and banks, to retailers and healthcare providers. 
• Crowdstrike's CEO blamed a defect in an update for Windows, highlighting the fragility of global IT.

If the world needed a wake-up call on just

• Elon Musk mocked Microsoft over global IT outage impacting multiple sectors.
• The X owner posted a laughing emoji in response to a meme poking fun at Microsoft.
• Microsoft's issues are linked to the CrowdStrike tool, causing widespread disruptions.

Elon Musk poked fun at Microsoft over a global IT