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Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published
Devices that have Citrix's Session Recording software installed are having problems completing this month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, which includes important fixes.…
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages
Meta has developed a machine learning model its researchers claim offers near-instant speech-to-speech translation between around 36 languages.…
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters
Fears of an AI bubble have yet to scare off venture capitalists and private equity firms from pumping billions of dollars into the GPU-packed datacenters at the heart of the machine-learning craze.…
Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year
North Korean blockchain bandits stole more than half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency in 2024 alone, the US, Japan, and South Korea say.…
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job so HR can 'do less of the repetitive stuff'
Interview Mega HR, a Florida-based human resources startup, today launched an AI agent service called Megan that the biz claims can automate most recruiting and hiring tasks while improving communication with job applicants.…
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
Most businesses rushing to adopt AI are unprepared for the energy demands it'll place on their infrastructure, and few have a handle on the power consumption of AI systems or the implications for their datacenters.…
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
Years after the pandemic reshaped working practices across the world, many staff are still resisting corporate efforts to get them to return to the office preferring instead to quit in favor of a more flexible employer.…
Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case
Four defendants have pleaded guilty in a US government IT procurement fraud case, which prosecutors claim has cost taxpayers at least $1.3 million in losses.…
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon
SpaceX has successfully completed the 100th launch of a Falcon rocket from pad 39A and sent two landers on their way to the Moon.…
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees
Seven weeks of court action began this week as a case over alleged breaches of competition law by Apple is heard at the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).…
UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff
British companies are looking to AI as a way of cutting investment in staff, according to new research.…
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Move over ChatGPT and DALL-E: Spreadsheet data is getting its own foundation machine learning model, allowing users to immediately make inferences about new data points for data sets with up to 10,000 rows and 500 columns.…
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure offering is more about unified management than hybrid cloud as an enabler of elasticity or flexible resource pools.…
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing
Beleaguered aerospace outfit Boeing has revealed how many commercial aircraft it shipped in 2024, and the news isn’t good.…
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible
Stricken silicon giant Intel has decided it doesn’t want to be the sole investor in its venture capital operation, so will spin it out for others to plow money into.…
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover
America's financial watchdog has sued Elon Musk, alleging the billionaire failed to disclose his acquisition of Twitter shares in a timely manner and was therefore able to acquire the social network for $150 million less than would otherwise have been the case.…
Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V
Patch Tuesday The first Patch Tuesday of 2025 has seen Microsoft address three under-attack privilege-escalation flaws in its Hyper-V hypervisor, plus plenty more problems that deserve your attention.…
The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish
Comment TikTok is just about out of options to save itself from a looming ban in the United States, though that hasn't stopped one US senator from planning a bill to extend the divest-or-dumped deadline another 270 days past this Sunday. …
Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate Corporation and its mobile analytics subsidiary, Arity, alleging the American insurance giant conspired with mobile app developers to collect telematics data on millions of motorists without consent, in violation of consumer protection laws.…
FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America
The FBI, working with French cops, obtained nine warrants to remotely wipe PlugX malware from thousands of Windows-based computers that had been infected by Chinese government-backed criminals, according to newly unsealed court documents.…