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Eight days later, Microsoft's native Outlook app on iOS devices still plagued
The native Outlook email app for iOS users remains missing in action for some more than a week after users first reported service disruption, and Microsoft still hasn't confirmed the root cause.…
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications went live, and appeared to obstruct access to the new system needed to complete their work.…
Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms
Britain's telecoms regulator wants to repurpose unused mobile spectrum for the upcoming Emergency Services Network (ESN) and to overhaul communications in the railway sector.…
MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users
AI models with memory aim to enhance user interactions by recalling past engagements. However, this feature opens the door to manipulation.…
IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs
IBM scored a pair of legal wins this week: The US Supreme Court declined to reinstate a $1.6 billion judgment previously awarded to BMC Software, and the High Court in London, England, ruled in favor of Big Blue in a lawsuit against LzLabs, which was accused of misappropriating IBM's mainframe technology.…
Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats
Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking due to climate change and one of the possible negative impacts is that space junk will stay in orbit for longer, bonk into other bits of space junk, and make so much mess that low Earth orbits become less useful.…
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Oracle on Monday announced customers committed to $48 billion of future cloud services consumption – just $5 billion less that its annual revenue for FY 2024 – but investors aren’t impressed.…
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder
A judge has found Meta must answer a claim it allegedly removed so-called copyright management information from material used to train its AI models.…
No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more
Domain registrar, website host, and email provider Gandi.net suffered a major outage over the weekend. The latest update from the French biz, some 14 hours ago, stated it was "still working on resolving all the issues," which we understand to mean it has largely fixed itself by now.…
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
New York State has sued Allstate Insurance for operating websites so badly designed they would deliver personal information in plain-text to anyone that went looking for it.…