Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a "whole new architecture," but as with many…
Lees meerPlus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users…
Lees meerOutdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewher…
Lees meerLocally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025 In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by stro…
Lees meerMicrosoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out User adoption of Windows 11 is slowing down, with the operating system still lagging behind Windows 10 as end of support nears.…
Lees meerDiagnosing a borkage from a million miles away NASA's Psyche spacecraft is back in business after engineers successfully switched to a backup fuel line in an impressive piece of remote maintenance.…
Lees meerOut-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code.…
Lees meerSafety margin set to narrow – yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events The US electricity grid is likely to be highly constrained and less stable by 2030, and datacenters aren't helping.…
Lees meerTo stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency,…
Lees meerFebruary jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says Workday has promised to rehire the 1,750 jobs it chopped earlier in the year, but in no particular timeframe and with a focus on investments in AI, the CFO has s…
Lees meerNothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems.…
Lees meerSoftware among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims Sectors in which AI can be readily used for some tasks – including the software industry – have seen higher productivity and wage growth than others, according to research by PwC.…
Lees meerThat's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study The United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS) has found that giving civil service employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot saved them an average 26 mi…
Lees meerNo wonder those products always rated so highly Australia’s Securities & Investments Commission has sued a product comparison website that it alleges only considered products from a related company.…
Lees meerHappy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye Atlassian has notified its customers of a new “maximum quantity billing” scheme that is good news for those who want more of its wares, but less fun for others.…
Lees meerOne possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax UPDATED Less than a month after Microsoft announced it was axing three percent of its staff, regulatory filings indicate new cuts at the tech behemoth.…
Lees meerSev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented …
Lees meerProbably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…
Lees meerBirthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres What did you do on Saturday? We ask because the Vienna Symphony Orchestra spent some of it playing a waltz that the European Space Agency (ESA) transmitted in the gener…
Lees meerUnsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use.…
Lees meerA real-world Trojan Horse attack Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."…
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