Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Israel

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday in the latest attack between the two countries. The seizure followed a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that … Read more

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Seizes Container Ship Near Strait of Hormuz

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries. The Middle East had braced for potential Iranian retaliation over a suspected Israeli … Read more

Dali container removal to take weeks, key to Baltimore port reopening

A Key Bridge Response 2024 Unified Command image of response crews remove shipping containers using a floating crane barge after the cargo ship Dali struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, on April 7, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. Handout | Getty Images News | Getty Images The process of removing shipping containers from the … Read more

Bigger container ships bring more risks, from Baltimore to Suez Canal

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Big ships can cause big problems. In 2021, the huge container ship Ever Given twisted sideways in the Suez Canal, … Read more

Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks shuts its doors

Weaveworks, a startup focusing on cloud native development tooling, announced today on LinkedIn that it would be shutting down, a sad day for any startup. “I am very sad to announce – officially – that Weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. Customers and partners will be working with a financial … Read more

Container prices hit $10,000, freight inflation soars in Red Sea chaos

With the Red Sea diversions by shipping companies including Maersk continuing amid the risk of attacks by the Houthis, global logistics managers are faced with a two-front storm of rising ocean and air freight prices and stranded cargo. Both are threats to the global supply chain after three tumultuous years of inflationary pressures and delays … Read more

It’s Been 2 Months. Why Can’t NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?

In September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were carefully dropped off in the Utah desert. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar system and can possibly answer crucial questions about how our planet came to be—if only we can get to them first. Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future … Read more

NASA Is Struggling to Open Its Asteroid Sample Container

About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its journey through space, but now teams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are struggling to open it to get at the … Read more

There’s Lastly a Method to Enhance Cloud Container Registry Safety

As software program supply-chain assaults have emerged as an on a regular basis risk, the place dangerous actors poison a step within the improvement or distribution course of, the tech trade has had a wake-up name about the necessity to safe every hyperlink within the chain. However truly implementing enhancements is difficult, significantly for the … Read more