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The hint of optimism to be found in February's tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it's pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March. …

The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers.…

Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.…

The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal.…

Microsoft has thrown up a Windows 11 24H2 compatibility hold for devices running SenseShield Technology's sprotect.sys driver.…

The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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