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Disney Cruise Line revealed more details for its forthcoming cruise ship Disney Destiny on the second of three days of news being released this week focusing on the more nefarious side of the ship’s heroes and villains theme.
The cruise line started off Tuesday with the revelation of its home port to be Port Everglades along with some info about more heroic-leaning interior venues including a dinner theater spot themed to “The Lion King” and a sweets shop themed to “The Incredibles.”
Disney Destiny is a sister ship to Disney Wish and Disney Treasure. Disney Wish debuted in 2022 out of Port Canaveral while Treasure is set to arrive to Port Canaveral this December. The reveal for Disney Destiny’s full itineraries beginning “late 2025” is set to be announced Thursday on the third day of announcements.
Disney Cruise Line’s new ship Disney Destiny will call Port Everglades home
But for day two, the line shifted to spaces dedicated to its villains including a new piano bar themed to the character Cruella de Vil from Disney’s “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” and a pub pulling inspiration from the theme park ride and film franchise for “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
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Delta CEO says airline is facing $500 million in costs from global tech outage
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the airline is facing $500 million in costs related to a global tech outage this month that disrupted emergency services, communications and thousands of businesses.
Speaking on CNBC, Bastian said Wednesday that the monetary amount represents lost revenue as well as “the tens of millions of dollars per day in compensation and hotels” for the five-day period.
A week ago, CrowdStrike blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off the global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike also outlined measures it will take to prevent the problem from recurring, including staggering the rollout of updates, giving customers more control over when and where they occur, and providing more details about the updates that it plans.
Among airlines, Delta was by far the hardest hit hard by the outage, having to cancel thousands of flights, because key systems were crippled by the incident.
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