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Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach
Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.…
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing
Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…
Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates
With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…
Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out
Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain.…
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13
SpaceX has named the date when it will try for another Starship launch without anything exploding. October 13, which is both the Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day holiday and the last day of Windows 10 support, is the current target.…
OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions
OpenStack has delivered its 32nd major release, named "Flamingo."…
Taiwan won't chip in to US effort to make half its own processors
Taiwan has rejected US demands to shift semiconductor manufacturing so that half of America's chip needs are produced domestically, as tariff negotiations with the Trump administration intensify.…
Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry
Analysis Few of us would have imagined that national security would play such a key role in AI hardware, even dictating its development, but here we are – in a new era of export controls.…