A law firm based in Manchester has gathered around 15,000 claimants for an impending data breach lawsuit against Microsoft and Google. The firm began signing up clients in November 2024 for a class action against the US tech giants. It believes them to be illegally collecting and using peoples’ data to train their artificial intelligence…
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Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a bang on the second Tuesday of January, dropping a massive Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities – rising to 161 incorporating two additional vulnerabilities through CERT CC and GitHub. According to Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative, this may be the largest number of CVEs addressed…
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So far, there is no regulation anywhere in the world specific to the environmental impact of software – a fact that runs alongside the reality that neither consumers nor investors are towards or away from companies based on the green credentials of their software. Many experts expect Europe to be the first region to enact regulation that enforces green software practices. One…
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As the festive season approaches, it brings not only joy and celebrations but also a surge in cyber threats. Alarmingly, 84% of businesses have suffered a phishing attack, making cyber crime the world’s third-largest economy after the US and China. This isn’t set to slow down any time soon, with the estimated cost of global…
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Microsoft has issued fixes for 71 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to mark the final Patch Tuesday of 2025, with a solitary zero-day that enables privilege elevation through the Windows Common Log File System Driver stealing the limelight. Assigned designation CVE-2024-49138 and credited to CrowdStrike’s Advanced Research Team, the flaw stems from a heap-based buffer…
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A team of data scientists at York St John University have unveiled a cutting-edge tool designed to spot and alert people to deepfake images being used to spread misinformation and other cyber nasties. Created with support from colleagues at the University of Essex and developers at Colchester-based Nosh Technologies, the Pixelator v2 tool uses a…
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During his keynote presentation at the start of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference in Chicago, CEO Satya Nadella discussed artificial intelligence (AI) scaling, through which the capabilities of the tech is doubling every six months. “Just like Moore’s Law, we saw the doubling in performance every 18 months with AI. We have now started to see…
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Red Hat has announced its intention to acquire Neural Magic, the lead developer behind the open source vLLM project. The acquisition is being positioned as a way for Red Hat and its parent IBM to lower the barrier to entry for organisations that want to run machine learning workloads without the need to deploy servers…
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Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) business is set to hit an annual run rate for subscription renewals of $10bn. For the quarter that ended September 30, the company reported revenue of $65.6bn, up 16%. The Microsoft Cloud business posted revenue of $38.9bn, an increase of 22%, while its productivity and business processes business reported a 12%…
