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Thursday April 24, 2025. 05:02 PM
With all the surveillance and TSA agents packed into airports these days, how is it possible that a Russian woman sneaked onto a flight from New York to Paris late last year? Now you can see for yourself, with newly released video that shows what looks like magic as...
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TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business is just $159.97 (36% OFF) through April 27 at 11:59 P.M. PST — no subscription required. Microsoft quietly raised the price of Microsoft 365 for the first time in over a decade. Users now shell out $100 every year to keep using...
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Enterprises are grappling with an increasing compliance burden, subject to multiple frameworks and more regulatory mandates that stretch resources and drive-up costs. Misconfigurations can further complicate things, often leading to non-compliance and regulatory penalties....
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Microsoft has instituted a new 'globally consistent' performance improvement process. According to internal documents, employees flagged as underperformers now face two options: enter a performance improvement plan with 'clear expectations and a timeline for improvement' or...
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A new study shows that 92 percent of IT leaders believe the new era of digital transformation will increase digital friction and that less than half (47 percent) of employees have the requisite digital dexterity to adapt to technological changes. The report from digital...
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New compiler releases often bring with them new warnings; those warnings are usually welcome, since they help developers find problems before they turn into nasty bugs. Adapting to new warnings can also create disruption in the development process, though, especially when an ...
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Sometimes worms have a tendency to multiply once their can is opened. James Bottomley recently encountered that situation; he led a session in the filesystem track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss filesystem...
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Ipsos reports that the United States' reputation around the world is dropping sharply following Donald Trump's return to the White House. The most striking loss of 'positive influence' is in Canada, the survey found, where the U.S. has sunk from a positive majority to just...
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When the Apple Watch launched, it was unclear if smartwatches would pan out. Ten years later, Apple has a $100 billion hit that reshaped the watch industry and ushered in a new age of fitness tracking.
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BrianFagioli writes: ARMO, the company behind Kubescape, has uncovered what could be one of the biggest blind spots in Linux security today. The company has released a working rootkit called 'Curing' that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (haproxy and openrazer), Fedora (c-ares and mingw-poppler), Red Hat (thunderbird), SUSE (epiphany, ffmpeg-6, gopass, and libsoup-3_0-0), and Ubuntu (erlang, haproxy, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, libarchive, linux, linux-aws,...
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Something broke on Windows 11 24H2, but dev who discovered it tells El Reg this time Microsoft's not to blame Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 update is frustrating some users, but it isn't the operating system at fault this time. Instead, it's down to a 20-year-old error in...
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A new study from Backslash Security looks at seven current versions of OpenAI's GPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini to test the influence varying prompting techniques have on their ability to produce secure code. Three tiers of prompting techniques, ranging from...
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This 16-inch Windows laptop runs quietly, has an excellent touchscreen, and delivers surprisingly decent performance.
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In 1991, Sophie Lloyd disguised herself as a man to trick her way into Britain's Magic Circle, then a men-only organization. When it finally began admitting women, she admitted her ruse and was expelled at the same meeting in which other female magicians were first admitted. ...
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Berlin-based O&O Software GmbH has unveiled a major new release -- and edition -- of its backup software for Windows. O&O DiskImage 21 Premium is a new entry into the DiskImage family, aimed firmly at home users. The application, which can back up everything from individual...
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Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores Qualcomm has amended its complaint against Arm in a 2024 lawsuit, adding more allegations about Arm's purported breach of license agreements and accusing it of 'misrepresenting' their...
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I'm here to remind you that when you eat a banana, you should also eat those stringy white parts—which are technically called 'phloem bundles'—that people usually remove and throw away. What exactly are phloem bundles, though? The Takeout provides this overview: In...
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Security teams know they need to test their main applications, but they often struggle to identify which other assets to cover. On average, organizations can miss testing nine out of 10 of their complex web apps. Security testing platform Detectify is announcing the launch...
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You might have missed Steven Soderbergh's 2023 series 'Command Z': It's got comedy, time travel, and Michael Cera. There are 8 short episodes, adding up to a movie's worth of clever writing, social satire, and great performances by a talented cast. — Read the rest The post C...
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