20 October 2025

The UK government is preparing to grant soldiers and Ministry of Defence police new legal powers to shoot down unidentified drones that threaten military bases, Defence Secretary John Healey is expected to announce on Monday, October 20, 2025. The authority would be introduced through the forthcoming Armed Forces Bill and would give personnel a “kinetic…

In a sweeping disruption early Monday, October 20 2025, Amazon’s cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), experienced a significant outage that knocked numerous popular apps and online services offline or caused widespread slowdowns.  What Happened According to AWS’s status dashboard and multiple outage-tracking sites, services hosted in the US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia) began showing “increased…