Two days since the first of two cyberattackson CDK Global, thousands of car dealerships across the U.S. and Canada remain crippled.
Why it matters: It's the latest incident where an attack on a third-party vendor has sent scores of other businesses into operational chaos.
Catch up fast: CDK is a critical software provider for car dealerships.
Its dealer management system, used by 15,000 car dealerships in North America, has remained unavailable the past two days.
Many businesses have reverted to using pen and paper to process auto repairs and new vehicle sales as CDK worked to bring its systems back online, Axios' Rebecca Falconer writes.
The latest U.S. temperature outlook for July, typically the hottest month, offers little comfort for those hoping the June heat waves are an aberration.
The big picture: The outlook, issued Thursday, shows nearly the entire Lower 48 states experiencing above-average temperatures, with two centers of much more likely than usual heat: The Great Basin and nearby states, plus the Northeast.
Archer Aviation is cooking up plans for an air taxi network that would link five key cities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Why it matters: If it happens, it could transform commuting in one of the most traffic-choked regions in the U.S., replacing drives of one to two hours with flights of 10 to 20 minutes, the company said.
CarbonCapture Inc. will unveil the first direct air capture module designed for mass production in the U.S. today near Los Angeles.
Why it matters: Scaling direct air capture requires progressing from absorbing and trapping megatons of carbon dioxide from the air, to drawing down gigatons of legacy emissions and emissions from hard-to-abate sectors.
An intense heat wave that's striking the Midwest to the Northeast has seen multiple new maximum temperature records set or tied this week, with more to come.
The big picture: Officials in several states have activated emergency operations and opened cooling centers in response to the lingering heat dome that had more than 106 million people under heat alerts on Friday morning.
Auto retailers across the U.S. and Canada face potentially days of outages due to back-to-back cyberattacks this week on CDK Global, a software provider with 15,000 car dealerships in North America, per Automotive News.
Why it matters: Cybersecurity breaches have a domino effect, as hundreds of organizations this year faced service disruptions due to a singular attack on a third-party vendor, Axios Codebook author Sam Sabin notes.
The U.S. is far from the only country seeing record heat, flash flooding and wildfires, among other extreme weather events. In fact, few places have been untouched recently.
Why it matters: Amid record warm global temperatures that have stretched on for at least a year, climate change-related extremes have affected hundreds of millions of people, with all-time heat records falling in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
The big picture: The declaration means federal funding will be available to people impacted by the South Fork and Salt fires that were still burning uncontained on Thursday, including those from the Mescalero Apache Tribe.
Get a new hobby if you enjoy popping plastic air pillows from your Amazon packages because the company is aiming to trash the box fillers in North America for good by year-end.
Why it matters: The move, Amazon says today, will remove 15 billion plastic cushions annually from its shipping process — and from oceans and landfills.
One day you'll be able to use a mobile app to summon an air taxi as easily as you hail an Uber, following the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of proprietary software from Joby Aviation.
Why it matters: So-called "flying taxis" seem dauntingly futuristic, but the here-and-now approval for a system that'll let you book one makes it clear they're becoming a reality.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in response to Tropical Storm Alberto, which was expected to continue lashing southern parts of the state with heavy rains and coastal flooding through Thursday.
The big picture: The formation ofthe first named storm over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday comes as forecasters predict an aggressive Atlantic hurricane season.
Editor's note: Read the latest on New Mexico's extreme weather here.
Two growing wildfires near a popular New Mexico resort town and historic Native American reservation killed at least two people and destroyed more than 1,400 structures as officials rushed to evacuate thousands of people on Tuesday.
The big picture: Fresh mandatory evacuation orders were issued on Wednesday in Lincoln County, N.M., including for Ruidoso, a mountain hamlet that's a hub for ski resorts and hiking trails, due to what the National Weather Service described as "life-threatening burn scar flash flooding" in the village of nearly 7,700 residents.
