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California sues President Tariff
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.…
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
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.…
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo
World War Fee No, it wasn't a typo. Some Chinese imports are indeed subject to a 245 percent tariff in the United States.…
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
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.…
Signalgate chats disappear from CIA chief's phone
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.…
Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes
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.…
First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales
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.…
Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades
Microsoft has admitted some users are being offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies configured otherwise.…
Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout
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.…
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home
In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program.…
20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit
It is twenty years since NASA's DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.…
Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine
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.…
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
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.…
ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets
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.…
Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite
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.…
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield
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.…
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing
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.…
Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector
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.…
TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails
TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…
Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails
Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…