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Microsoft walks us through Copilot Search with a domain it doesn't even own

Fri, 2025-07-25 08:30
Mock-ups feature m365.com, which could be yours for a few bucks

Microsoft this week trumpeted the launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot Search with lofty promises and slick mock-ups, but the domain plastered all over them didn't belong to the corporation.…

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Problem PC had graybeards stumped until trainee rummaged through trash

Fri, 2025-07-25 07:29
Evidence of copious sugar hits hinted at unauthorized usage

On Call By Friday, many readers will feel they need a sugar hit to get through the day, which is why The Register tries to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support tales.…

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DNS security is important but DNSSEC may be a failed experiment

Fri, 2025-07-25 06:26
Nobody thinks of running a website without HTTPs. Safer DNS still seems optional

Systems Approach Last week I turned on DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) for the systemsapproach.org domain. No need to applaud; I was just trying to get an understanding of what the barriers to adoption might be while teaching myself about the technology.…

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You DO see Windows 11 as an AI PC opportunity, say Dell and Intel

Fri, 2025-07-25 05:28
Time to 'reimagine' it as a gateway, a gateway to inner peace, er, sales

With three months to go until Microsoft ends support for Windows 10, Dell and Intel want to convince corporate buyers that upgrading their PC fleet is a virtue and not a necessity.…

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Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

Fri, 2025-07-25 00:24
Satya Nadella lays out revised mission for Redmond. Spoiler: It involves AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday told employees in a memo that the company's recent layoffs have been "weighing heavily on me."…

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A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says

Thu, 2025-07-24 23:20
Psst, wanna buy some innovation?

An estimated $1 billion worth of smuggled high-end Nvidia AI processors have reportedly found their way onto the Chinese black market, despite the US government's strict restrictions on exports of the tech.…

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Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years

Thu, 2025-07-24 22:29
Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday

An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.…

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Trump promises he won't put his boot on Musk's neck

Thu, 2025-07-24 21:40
We're all businesspeople here, right?

Elon Musk could use a win after Tesla's weak second-quarter earnings, and he sort of got it when President Donald Trump proclaimed he wasn't going to use the power of the presidency to destroy his businesses. …

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Euro healthcare giant AMEOS Group shuts down IT systems after mystery attack

Thu, 2025-07-24 21:08
Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor

The AMEOS Group, which runs over 100 hospitals across Europe, has shut down its entire network after crims busted in.…

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Weapons jam: Pentagon sucks at removing foreign objects from its gear, auditors say

Thu, 2025-07-24 20:38
Component origin isn't tracked, says GAO, meaning the circuits in equipment could be from anywhere

The Pentagon doesn't know where components of its critical systems come from, and it's doing a poor job of finding out, say government auditors. …

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White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth

Thu, 2025-07-24 20:10
They can only enforce consistency based on their training

The White House on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring AI models used by the government to be truthful and ideologically neutral.…

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Print Screen is for noobs: Capture images in Windows like a pro

Thu, 2025-07-24 19:37
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, you could save yourself a lot of typing

hands on It happens every day. There's something interesting on your screen that you want to share with others. Perhaps it's an error message you want to send to support. Or maybe you're writing instructions for colleagues and you need to outline how to use software. Whatever the reason, you need a screenshot.…

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Wayback 0.1 debuts as early Wayland server for X11 diehards

Thu, 2025-07-24 19:13
Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be careful

Wayback 0.1 is out, the first preliminary release of the new Wayland display server whose announcement we reported a few weeks ago.…

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No login? No problem: Cisco ISE flaw gave root access before fix arrived, say researchers

Thu, 2025-07-24 18:28
Shadowserver claims miscreants were already poking at a critical hole in early July, long before Switchzilla patched it

Threat actors have actively exploited a newly patched vulnerability in Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) software since early July, weeks before the networking giant got around to issuing a fix.…

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So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

Thu, 2025-07-24 17:45
Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work

Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…

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T-Mobile's satellite service lifts off, and it's open season on rivals

Thu, 2025-07-24 17:16
Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster

T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite services to AT&T and Verizon customers.…

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Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections

Thu, 2025-07-24 16:54
Let the games begin

Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…

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AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

Thu, 2025-07-24 16:28
So says a study by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have likened today's large language model (LLM) chatbots to "that friend who swears they're great at pool but never makes a shot" - having found that their virtual self-confidence grew, rather than shrank, after getting answers wrong.…

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Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds

Thu, 2025-07-24 15:45
Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps

A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.…

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The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over

Thu, 2025-07-24 15:15
Palantir, data brokers, and judicial overreach are all on the horizon, executive director Cindy Cohn warns

Interview In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging online community.…

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