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Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Wed, 2025-04-09 08:39
Strangely no eighth tip to use something else

Microsoft has published seven tips for getting the most out of Windows 11, and the pitches for the operating system – which has failed to win hearts and minds of users – are not very compelling.…

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Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you

Wed, 2025-04-09 07:33
Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027

A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap ‘em with lasers.…

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Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Wed, 2025-04-09 07:02
Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it’s OK to use their work.…

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DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Wed, 2025-04-09 03:04
Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky

The United States Social Security Administration's internet portal has frequently gone offline in recent weeks, and presented inaccurate or incomplete information to users, perhaps because of changes steered by Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit.…

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Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home

Wed, 2025-04-09 02:34
Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec

A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes.…

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AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

Wed, 2025-04-09 01:52
We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future

Interview The founder of an AI startup who attempted to use an artificially generated avatar to argue his case in court has been scolded by a judge for the stunt.…

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Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited OS bug

Tue, 2025-04-08 23:43
A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low

Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.…

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TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – it may cost it $1B+

Tue, 2025-04-08 22:03
What did we learn today, hm?

TSMC could end up paying $1 billion or more to settle a US investigation into whether the Taiwanese outfit busted sanctions by indirectly producing AI accelerators for America's bête noire / hēi yáng, Huawei.…

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Canadian nuclear watchdog green-lights construction of first licensed SMR

Tue, 2025-04-08 20:44
Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another licence entirely

Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor - the first such license issued in the country. But with the chosen design yet to be operated anywhere in the world, it's best to take the news with a heap of salt.…

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Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

Tue, 2025-04-08 20:01
Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so

Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly boosted its leaderboard position over rivals.…

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Boeing 787 radio software patch didn't work, says Qatar

Tue, 2025-04-08 19:19
'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear

Boeing issued a software patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained.…

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Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE

Tue, 2025-04-08 18:32
What a MIME field

A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off.…

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Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Tue, 2025-04-08 16:54
70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot

Comment There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X – formerly known as Twitter – have all become hosts to the man's galactic ego.…

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Windows Server Update Services live to patch another day

Tue, 2025-04-08 16:01
Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft

Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10.…

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Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock

Tue, 2025-04-08 14:31
Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great

World War Fee Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay.…

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Microsoft celebrates 50 years by adding familiar AI features

Tue, 2025-04-08 13:36
Windows maker marks milestone with Copilot additions that resemble tools from OpenAI and Google

Microsoft used its 50th birthday to announce a slew of new Copilot features, many of which will be eerily familiar to anyone who's used rival AI platforms.…

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Scattered Spider stops the Rickrolls, starts the RAT race

Tue, 2025-04-08 12:45
Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year

Despite several arrests last year, Scattered Spider's social engineering attacks are continuing into 2025 as the cybercrime collective targets high-profile organizations and adds another phishing kit to its arsenal along with a new version of Spectre RAT malware.…

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UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months

Tue, 2025-04-08 12:01
No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network

The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has delivered its first GPU interconnect specification: UALink 200G 1.0.…

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Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

Tue, 2025-04-08 11:48
Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal

Procter & Gamble says organizations should rethink how they're run to take better advantage of innovation enabled by generative AI.…

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Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power

Tue, 2025-04-08 10:38
Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth

You've perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. But a group of German scientists reckon they've found another use for the grey stuff: Turn it into glass and use it to assemble solar power cells right there on the Moon.…

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