WASHINGTON — Private lenders will play a greater role in funding disaster recovery under a program announced Tuesday, moving to fill a gap left by sluggish federal aid programs that take years to get money to victims of floods, wildfires and other catastrophes. The program, funded in part by the financial giant Morgan Stanley, will […]
Perth city Image: Getty Images The Western Australia Auditor-General has slammed local government (LG) entities in the hard border state, after determining they were not managing cyber risks well. The outcome of the audit was summed up by two key findings noted in the audit report. The first was most vulnerabilities found during black box […]
The United States and five other world powers announced a coordinated effort to tap into their national oil stockpiles on Tuesday, attempting to drive down rising gas prices that have angered consumers around the world. The move appeared to underwhelm oil traders, who had been expecting President Biden to announce a larger release from America’s […]
Dream Sports and its brands such as Dream11, FanCode, Dream Capital have a collective user base of over 140 million. To cater to such a humongous user base with peak concurrency reaching up to 5.5+ million, the cloud became a very obvious choice for the organisation from the beginning. With so much traffic data coming […]
Jim Myers Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp., have submitted an application to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia for approval to build five utility-scale solar energy projects throughout the companies’ West Virginia service territory. Together, the facilities would generate 50 MW of energy to help make West Virginia more attractive […]
Image: APH The Senate Committee inquiring into the federal government’s bungled robo-debt system has called for a Senate resolution to compel Minister for Government Services Linda Reynolds into providing documents about the legal advice Services Australia received in implementing robo-debt. Since the end of 2019, the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs has been seeking […]
Steve Vavrik Apollo and EnCap Energy Transition Fund I (EETFI) have announced that funds managed by Apollo affiliates have agreed to acquire a 50% stake in Broad Reach Power LLC. The Apollo funds will acquire the stake from existing investor EnCap Investments L.P. and its co-investment partners, Yorktown Partners and Mercuria Energy. EnCap and its […]
Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet In undertaking the research phase for developing Australia’s electronic birth certificate, NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriage has been talking to a long list of stakeholders. In addition to Births, Deaths, and Marriage staff across the country as well as in NSW, there have been encounters with Service NSW, internal working […]
Legislation filed yesterday in the Florida Legislature aims to end net metering for rooftop solar customers, effectively shutting down this key sector of the state economy and undermining energy freedom for tens of thousands of Floridians. Republican Sen. Jennifer Bradley introduced SB 1024, which aims to “revise and provide legislative findings relating to the redesign […]
Ever since Microsoft first unveiled its Windows on Arm strategy publicly in 2016, the only Arm chip supplier in the mix has been Qualcomm. According to a report by XDA Developers this week, that’s not coincidental; it’s because Microsoft and Qualcomm had a publicly-unacknowledged exclusivity deal. XDA says that exclusive contract will end “soon.” But […]