I was listening to Times Radio yesterday when the conversation turned to the pay now on offer to tanker crews prepared to take ships through the Strait of Hormuz. The Financial Times has reported captains earning around $100,000 a month, against a normal rate of about $15,000, plus a $50,000 bonus for each passage, with
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This week produced three AI stories that look separate but aren’t. Anthropic’s own alignment lead put a number on AI wiping out humanity: a chance he personally puts at more than 10% within the next decade. The company’s latest Threat Intelligence Report disclosed that it has spent the months since December 2025 detecting and blocking
The risk you already know about. Last week, a water main collapsed on a road near me. I live rurally, and this particular lane happens to be the only way in for articulated lorries serving a couple of local businesses – a single point of failure if ever there was one.. What followed was entirely
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A fire in the Netherlands, a ferry company in chaos, and a BIA that probably didn’t ask the right questions. The Brittany Ferries booking outage is a textbook case study in third-party dependency risk, inadequate RTOs, and what happens when your recovery plan assumes someone else has already thought about it. On the morning of
