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California sues President Tariff

Wed, 2025-04-16 23:59
Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work

World War Fee President Trump's reign of tariffs has been challenged on the left and right by the State of California and the Liberty Justice Center.…

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Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

Wed, 2025-04-16 23:20
Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI

Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on screen.…

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White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

Wed, 2025-04-16 22:53
Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President

World War Fee No, it wasn't a typo. Some Chinese imports are indeed subject to a 245 percent tariff in the United States.…

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Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

Wed, 2025-04-16 21:16
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system

Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…

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Signalgate chats disappear from CIA chief's phone

Wed, 2025-04-16 20:58
Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter?

CIA Director John Ratcliffe's smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a group Signal conversation a journalist was inadvertently added to.…

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Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes

Wed, 2025-04-16 20:08
Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder

Far be from us to suggest Microsoft is trying to force people onto its New Outlook application, but it has admitted Classic Outlook occasionally and mysteriously turns into a system resource hog. It's a SNAFU that may just push folks over the edge to the new app – or to a full alternative.…

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First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales

Wed, 2025-04-16 19:14
Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

World War Fee Turns out Nvidia's not the only chip shop caught in the crossfire of Trump's tit-for-tat trade battle with China.…

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Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Wed, 2025-04-16 17:50
Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions

Microsoft has admitted some users are being offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies configured otherwise.…

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Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout

Wed, 2025-04-16 17:32
Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession

It's been a little over a year since Adobe abandoned its plans to purchase web-based design tool Figma. Now, the smaller of the two app makers is bucking market uncertainty by filing for an IPO.…

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CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Wed, 2025-04-16 16:54
Feds extend vulnerability nerve-center contract at 11th hour

In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program.…

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20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit

Wed, 2025-04-16 15:33
Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide

It is twenty years since NASA's DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.…

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Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine

Wed, 2025-04-16 14:45
DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions

A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems.…

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AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

Wed, 2025-04-16 14:01
Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent.…

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ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets

Wed, 2025-04-16 13:15
Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters

Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump's tariff turmoil casts uncertainty over the entire industry.…

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Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite

Wed, 2025-04-16 12:29
Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age

Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…

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In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

Wed, 2025-04-16 11:26
Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

Digital forensics in the UK is in need of reform, says one expert, as the deadline to advise the government on computer evidence rules arrives.…

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Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

Wed, 2025-04-16 10:38
Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?

Microsoft Teams experienced a file-sharing outage overnight that disrupted collaboration for many users and forced the software biz to roll back a recent backend change.…

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Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector

Wed, 2025-04-16 09:37
£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC

In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become "less dependent upon legacy technologies." The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job.…

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TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

Wed, 2025-04-16 08:30
It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?

TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…

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Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails

Wed, 2025-04-16 07:29
It's LLMs all the way down

Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…

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