Day: September 23, 2025

Copenhagen – Danish intelligence issued a warning on Tuesday regarding an elevated threat of sabotage, following significant drone activity that resulted in the temporary closure of Copenhagen Airport., reports 24brussels.

Oslo and Copenhagen airports, among the busiest in Scandinavia, experienced several hours of disruption overnight into Tuesday due to sightings of large drones, affecting tens of thousands of travelers.

“We are facing a high threat of sabotage in Denmark. Someone may not necessarily want to attack us, but rather stress us out and see how we react,”

Flemming Drejer, Director of Operations at Denmark’s intelligence agency PET, addressed the media during a press conference.

How did drone sightings disrupt Copenhagen Airport operations?

According to reports, Copenhagen Airport’s airspace was shut for nearly four hours on Monday evening after two to three large, unidentified drones were observed in close proximity. During this period, all flights were grounded.

“We have concluded that this was what we would call a capable operator,”

Danish police Chief Superintendent Jens Jespersen informed reporters that the drones approached from multiple directions, intermittently flashing their lights before disappearing after several hours.

How was Oslo Airport affected by similar drone activity?

In Norway, Oslo Airport was also temporarily closed on Tuesday morning for approximately three hours due to the detection of a drone in the surrounding area.

“This means the incoming flights now redirect to the nearest airport,”

Communications Manager Monica Iren Fasting stated. Additionally, police in Oslo detained two foreign nationals on suspicion of operating drones within the restricted zone on Monday.

Both Copenhagen and Oslo airports confirmed they had reopened by early Tuesday.

How does the situation compare with Gatwick’s 2018 drone chaos?

This incident recalls the 2018 disruption at Gatwick Airport near London, which was significantly impacted by unprecedented drone activity over its runway.

The chaos began on December 19, 2018, when drones were first spotted above the airfield, prompting airport authorities to close the lone runway for safety reasons. The runway remained shut for approximately 33 hours, resulting in the cancellation or diversion of 1,000 flights and stranding nearly 140,000 passengers during a peak holiday travel period.

• Many employers are gradually increasing the number of days that workers must show up at the office.
• A survey shows 34% of employees must be on-site four days a week, up from 23% in 2023.
• ‘Hybrid creep’ may signal the end of flexible work at some companies, as employers seek more control.

Sorry, home-office enthusiasts. So-called “hybrid creep” is gaining traction.

Employers are gradually increasing the number of days that workers must show up at the office. For example, this month Intel began requiring staffers to come in at least four days a week, up from three previously. NBCUniversal, Starbucks, and Bank of New York Mellon recently implemented similar mandates.

A new survey of 2,000 full-time US workers found that nearly a third of employers revised their remote or hybrid work policies in the past year. Video-conferencing company Owl Labs, which commissioned the poll and claims it came up with the term “hybrid creep,” found that 34% of respondents are now required to be on-site at least four days a week. That is up from 32% in 2024 and 23% in 2023.

“This is the boiling-frog concept,” Frank Weishaupt, CEO of Boston-based Owl Labs, told Business Insider. Instead of suddenly demanding workers return to the office full-time after several years of hybrid — and before that, fully remote — schedules, they’ve been taking things slow, he said.

It’s likely that employers going with a baby-step approach aren’t using stricter return-to-office mandates as a way to nudge workers to resign, said Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

“Nobody’s quitting now anyway,” he said.

Instead, companies may be easing staff back into commuting incrementally to avoid stirring resentment, which can hamper productivity. Just because workers aren’t handing in resignations as frequently as they used to doesn’t mean they’re happy with less flexibility, Cappelli said.

Companies generally want workers back at the office so they can monitor them more closely and spur more collaboration. Yet five-day RTO mandates have come with some hiccups, as Business Insider previously reported.

Amazon’s shift in January from three to five mandatory office days left workers scrambling for desks and meeting rooms, while Dell’s March orders for employees living near an office to come back full time resulted in uneven compliance. Some workers at the tech company resumed eight-hour office days, while “coffee badgers” showed up only briefly.

Still, returning to a fully in-person workweek may result in some employees resigning, even in today’s job-hugging economy, because of child- or elder-care needs, said Pace University management professor Andrew Coggins.

Returning to fully in-person schedules “can be a big jump,” he said.

Owl Labs’s survey suggests that more workers are warming up to office life. Some 21% of respondents said they’d like to be on-site as many as four days a week, an increase from 17% in last year’s report. Yet nearly half of workers polled said they still lack the overall work flexibility they want, and 37% said they’d decline a job offer from a company that doesn’t allow flexible working hours.

It’s possible that hybrid creep is a sign that the era of flexible work is coming to an end — at least at some companies. “I think employers would prefer five days,” said Coggins. “They have more control.”

• YouTuber JerryRigEverything tried and failed to bend the iPhone Air with his hands.
• When he used a machine to break the iPhone Air, it took 216 pounds of pressure to snap the device.
• The iPhone Air is Apple’s thinnest phone yet, and execs have been challenging interviewers to bend it.

When Zack Nelson — a.k.a. YouTube’s JerryRigEverything — tried to bend the iPhone Air, it hurt his fingers.

Apple wants to prove that its thinnest phone is durable. The company’s execs challenged interviewers to try to bend the phone. Apple said the device “exceeds Apple’s stringent bend strength requirements” and is “more durable than any previous iPhone,” in a release when it unveiled the device.

Nelson has amassed over 9 million followers for poking, prodding, and scratching various devices. He recently tested the iPhone Air and was surprised by how much pressure it could withstand. He posted a video of the experiment titled, “iPhone Air Durability test — I AM SHOCKED.”

Putting the iPhone Air on its side, Nelson tried bending it from both directions. Bending from the back caused “freaking nothing,” he said. Bending from the front, Nelson found a bit of “curvature,” but the phone’s titanium build caused it to return to “straight as it was coming out of the box a few minutes ago.”

The iPhone Air has a titanium frame, like most of Apple’s phones since the iPhone 15. The iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, which dropped the same day as the iPhone Air, revert to aluminum frames.

“The iPhone Air has no business being this indestructible,” Nelson said. “Both my thumbs now hurt, along with my pride. The iPhone Air 100% passes my durability test.”

To quantify the pressure under which the iPhone Air would break, Nelson placed the phone underneath two bars and then pulled up with a device that measured force.

At 171 pounds of pressure, he heard a crack, but the screen stayed intact. At 216 pounds, the phone snapped, though the back glass stayed intact.

That’s a lot more force than the iPhone 6 could handle. Some users found they could bend it with human force, leading to the company’s BendGate controversy in 2014.

That 216 pounds of force that snapped the iPhone Air was applied to one point in the center of the phone, and not across the device’s surface area, Nelson said. So no, you probably won’t bend your iPhone Air by sitting on it.