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'BingBang' boo-boo affected other internal Microsoft apps, too A misconfiguration in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AAD) c...

AI policy wonks slam chatty hallucination-prone model in formal complaint The Center for AI and Digital Policy, a non-profit research organ...

Malicious toolkit targets misconfigured hosts in AWS and Office 365 A fast-evolving toolkit that can be used to compromise email and web ho...

Hint: Hundreds of malicious npm and PyPI packages spotted Exclusive   Machine learning models are unreliable but that doesn't prevent t...

Hey Bing, help me find a new browser, er, AI chatbot So much for a good thing: Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi said Red...

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Analysts just don't see digi-brains making a difference to dismal demand that's caused deep discounting If you're in the market...

Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet Aerospace firm Lockheed Martin has ...

Unmasking also in store for anyone who's 'posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified' tweet biz code A California court has grant...

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Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating' Microsoft's at-times-glitc...

Replit after me Google has tapped up IDE developer Replit to bake the startup's AI-powered code-suggestion tools into its cloud platfor...

Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned Happy belated Patch Tuesday from Cupertino: Apple has issued securi...

It starts with chat bots inventing D&D campaigns and ends with AI all over your Excel and network logs Microsoft's sprint to push g...

Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so Google Chat histories handed over by the web giant in ongoing Android antitrust lit...

Data guarding requires better 'education, better technology, and better automation' Interview   If there was ever an area where def...

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There is no honor among chatbots Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report that details how AI ...

In addition to $100k given to LockBit New York law firm Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy and Bach (HPMB) has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a dat...

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Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use Analysis   A federal judge rej...

Sounds like some IT teams are due for some training Amtrak trains across the US are back on schedule after a server breakdown forced the ra...

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Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones iss...

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Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs Chinese RISC-V upstart StarFive has revealed that Chin...

ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances Asia In Brief   Although ...

Search aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first Analysis   OpenAI this week introduced ChatGPT plugi...

May fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots Boeing's first mission carrying astronauts to the International Space...

Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... when someone does think of the children? To protect children, Utah Governor Spencer C...

All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically Microsoft is said to be preparing to fix the high-profile "aCro...

This week’s Out-of-Touch Guide is a look at the widely different ways technology affects youth culture. On one end of the spectrum, constan...

I’m not surprised Paramount+ is launching a Grease TV series. I’m just surprised it hadn’t happened already. Glee premiered nearly 15 year...

OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors Oracle is set to make a number of job cuts at Cerner, the e...

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It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on circumstances The board of troubled Japanese tech conglomerate Toshiba has...

'Hunt forward' teams of this sort aid with defense and learn how attackers like Tehran operate US Cyber Command operators have conf...

Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both, but launch outfit insists it's a win The world's 3D-printed rocket,...

Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed Devices used in critical infrastructure are riddled with vuln...

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FTC bans 'deceptive or unfair conduct' by ad firms - good luck with that America's Federal Trade Commission warned Wednesday it...

In a month full of video game deals—from Nintendo’s Mario Day deals to Steam’s  Spring Sale for PC games—Xbox has now joined the party wi...

I love when food trends give tired products new life, like making a Pop-Tart ice cream sandwich , or curing your gummy candy . Wrapping ice...

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Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers GTC   On the surface, Nvidia's spring GPU ...

Meanwhile, Bing bot can now handle images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly Google is now offering Bard – its chat-driven rival to Ch...

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Spring is here, but that’s no reason to go outside—not when the Steam store has a killer sale going on. The video game digital distribution...

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Most of us have the good sense these days not to post personal information online. That’s why markup tools are so helpful: You can quickly ...

A 'new deal for the night' needed Increasing levels of light pollution means Earth's surface has almost no practical locations ...

Digital lending is only fine when we do it On Monday four of the largest book publishers asked a New York court to grant summary judgment i...

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Concerns over consistent dialog boxes, pinning, default apps mulled Microsoft appears to be heeding the various criticisms of Windows 11...

You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow If you're one of the small subset of Apple aficionados waiting to get t...

Crypto laundering service gets cleaned up by police and SVB mess draws in more criminals In Brief   A man accused of being the head of one ...

Can't get Google to finish the job, though Hong Kong's efforts to improve the accuracy of Google search results for its national an...

2023 is only one more than 2022, right? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has delivered a major release of its home-spun Linux distribution – albei...

ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls Asia In Brief   ByteDa...

No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that The BianLian gang is ditching the encrypting-files-and-demanding-ransom route and inst...

Attackers exploiting the vulnerability could access encrypted data Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in the Windows Recovery Environment ...

More than half of Euro nation's infrastructure would have to go Ripping and replacing Huawei and ZTE equipment from German carrier netw...

Farmers need a right to repair The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has called upon farm equipment maker John Deere to comply with its ob...

Alert noise is 'loud and distracting' for drivers, claims filing All-electric vehicle maker Tesla is facing a potential class actio...

For decades, it has been generally agreed upon that while it may be a truly magical animated film, the racial politics of Disney’s 1953 cla...

Botched data deletion threat roils open source worlds Container biz Docker on Thursday scrambled to bandage a self-inflicted marketing mish...

Gadget maker accused of 'corporate voyeurism' by gathering up footage against your wishes A lawsuit filed against eufy security cam...

Looks to be the same baddies attacking VMware hypervisors last year Suspected Chinese spies have exploited a critical Fortinet bug, and use...

Some non-artificial intelligence has to have been involved The US Copyright Office will consider an AI-generated work copyrightable if a hu...

South Korean titan budgeted $17 billion. Could now need over $25 billion to bring the facility online Semiconductor foundry operators inclu...

SBF alone pocketed $2.2B, or so this bankruptcy paperwork goes In fresh filings in the FTX bankruptcy case, the cryptocurrency-exchange-sla...

Kaspersky cracks the code, so get busy before the next update comes Good news for ransomware victims: Kaspersky security researchers say th...

The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts Tesla is facing a fresh p...

Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off Microsoft's delayed effort to ensure its ...

Why patching matters: Everyone seemingly had a crack at security bug Multiple criminals, including at least potentially one nation-state gr...

Machine learning safety and controls now everyone's problem Microsoft has eliminated its entire team responsible for ensuring the ethic...

Good news, unless trees or walls get in the way Wireless spectrum is a finite and tightly regulated resource and that makes it a hot commod...

Victim offered two years of credit monitoring after highly sensitive records dumped online A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and r...

Bring back keys! Bring back keys! The first keys and locks appeared some 6,000 years ago and continue to work well. We use them to secure o...

Can we blame social media for this? We can try Register Kettle   The collapse and re-spawning, to a degree, of Silicon Valley Bank in the U...

HCI upstart adds a hybrid option that could be of interest to nervous VMware customers Nutanix's ambition to bring its stack to all maj...

Weirdly coy about the AI model's size and what went into making it, tho OpenAI on Tuesday announced the qualified arrival of GPT-4, its...

PaLM springs forth Google has promised to offer API-level access to its large language model PaLM so that developers can build it into thei...

Successful invasion would make China 'the OPEC of silicon chips' The US would sooner see TSMC fabs destroyed than fall into Chinese...

Fancy playing with some space Lego? We're going to need a lot of robots to handle dangerous tasks once we get to the Moon, and a team f...

If this ransomware gang can nab it all, who else can? Ransomware gang Lockbit has boasted it broke into Maximum Industries, which makes par...

The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable Comment   Daniel Ellsberg, an American former military analyst who became one of the m...

Names, addresses, SSNs all up for grabs Medical device and software maker Zoll Medical says the personal and health information of more tha...

10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and Rivian really needs the cash Electric van maker Rivian and Amazon are reporte...

Remember the storage class memory that never took off? It's back Memory startup Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies has scored funding...

If chicken and gaming are your thing, KFC and Blizzard Entertainment, Inc . are pairing up to get you early beta access to the upcoming Di...

‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’ Singaporean search engine optimisation tools vendor Ahrefs has claimed...

Feds say this won’t cost taxpayers a dime Customers of collapsed startup-centric Silicon Valley Bank will be able to access their deposits ...

PLUS: Singapore tests AWS quantum network; Honda bulks autonomous truck; India tightens crypto laws; and more Asia In Brief   The president...

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Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance Astronomers have another near-Earth object o...

Android and iOS are more similar today than they’ve ever been, but Android still reigns supreme in one particular area: the back gesture. W...

You use Apple Music to listen to your favorite tunes, and, for the most part, it’s a good experience. However, have you ever tried searchin...

The best podcasts are super engaging, and there’s nothing more engaging than a game show. The best game show podcasts can make you feel lik...

Spring cleaning isn’t just about cleaning: It’s about organizing, decluttering, and making your home more inviting and efficient. Sure, you...

Data for sale via dark web, Senate in line of fire, too Health data and other personal information of members of Congress and staff were st...

I have been trying to eat more vegetables, green things, and plant parts that aren’t potatoes. It’s going about how you would expect (good,...

Weekend pancakes are more than a fluffy breakfast treat. They’re a symbol. A declaration of relaxation. No one plans for pancakes when they...

It could be worse, at least Autopilot is ... oh If you needed another reminder that Tesla vehicles might not have the highest of quality co...

Notorious botnet starts spamming again after a three-month pause Emotet is back. After another months-long lull since a spate of attacks in...

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I am writing this article while under the influence of what TikTokers are calling “audio torture.” There are many versions of the torturous...

Irish soda bread is a reliable “anytime-food,” but it’s especially apt for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. This hearty loaf can be a real bo...

Get ready to start paying student loans again . President Biden’s sweeping plan for student loan relief is currently at the Supreme Court ...

You want our jobs? Hey, welcome to the real world, pal In January, at a Mark's apparel store outside Vancouver, Canada, a Sanctuary AI ...

Like Mark Twain once quipped, land is always going to be valuable because they’re simply not making any more of it. Anyone struggling to ma...

We’ve talked a lot about the difference between regular old cleaning and more heavy-duty disinfecting and why it’s important to disinfect a...

Whether you like video games about building modern cities or video games about building medieval settlements, 2023 is your year. Not only a...

You might have the impression that the tech world in general is at a bit of a standstill. Companies push new products every year, but tout ...

Millions extorted from victims, one attack left hospital patient dead German and Ukrainian cops have arrested suspected members of the Dopp...

Good news: Jobs for all! Bad news: Employer may get invaded by China TSMC is capitalizing on the recent trend for tech layoffs, which have ...

The best alarm clock is the one on your wrist. Smartwatches can wake you with gentle taps, rather than blaring alarms, resulting in a more ...

Once again, the status page is oblivious Elon Musk's Twitter got off to a bad start on Monday when it introduced further unexpected cha...

Also, Royal ransomware metastasizes to other critical sectors, and this week's critical vulnerabilities In Brief   If you can't joi...

Loongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list The US Department of Commerce last week added ...

PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more Asia In Brief   The full sessio...

WD-40 has been a staple in many American households for decades, thanks to its versatility. In addition to being an effective lubricant, it...

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Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake... SCSW   The common analogy when ta...

If you are a grilling enthusiast, smoker joker, or BBQ dad, you probably get a lot of grilling related gifts, including cheeky aprons, pers...

Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy Research published this week shows increasing interference with astronomical imag...

What came first, the milkshake or the smoothie? Maybe they developed simultaneously, but I like to think the milkshake paved the way and th...

You have multiple sources of audio running at any given moment on your PC, but no convenient way to manage them all. Yes, Windows has plent...

Fifth of server warehouse operators polled didn't employ a single female worker Datacenter operators' investments in inclusion and ...

It not only told everyone I died but tried to fake my obit. Are we ready for this machine-driven future? Comment   “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afr...

No new cars, unanswered questions, and FSD goals still looming in distance may be why stock is tanking Yesterday's four-hour Tesla PR m...

Lack of route to domestic semiconductor supply best of British stuffup, says Urquhart Another of Arm's founders has criticized UK gover...

Houseplants are a beautiful addition to your living space, but beauty doesn’t come cheap. Plants take time, space, and perhaps most importa...

Celebrated unhinged search tool pushed in latest OS update Microsoft is following through on a promise to integrate its controversial OpenA...

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear “tapioca” is chewy, gummy boba spheres, but this wondrous starch has a different side it wou...

Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction Days after it emerged that the US Department of Energy d...

Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm By the end of 2023, only 9 percent of knowledge workers worldwide will be fully r...

Entrance of SpaceX and others into airline Wi-Fi eases worries. Next stop: US and EU regulators The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority ...