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EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list

It's easy to forget in the FOSS world, but Exchange still runs most corporate email – and the new version of Thunderbird can talk to it directly.…

PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts

An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.…

Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch

The Windows 11 October 2025 Update is still causing headaches for users of Microsoft's flagship operating system.…

The force-feeding will continue until morale improves

Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills.…

PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last

Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.…

Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base

The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…

Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US

TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…

Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework

Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.…

Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors

Google and atomic power biz Westinghouse Electric claim that AI will speed construction and cut the cost of building the new US power plants it is planning in response to rising demands for energy to fuel AI.…

GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing

Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.…

‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort

Cybercrime fighters in the US, UK, and Australia have imposed sanctions on several Russia-linked entities they claim provide hosting services to ransomware gangs Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.…

Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the "best interests" of the city's population.…

Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components

Updated  Memory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard.…

PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet

Lenovo has again said its enterprise hardware business is on the cusp of becoming consistently profitable, despite the division again posting a loss after massive revenue growth.…

Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced.…

Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one

Nvidia kicked the can labeled "AI bubble" down the road on Wednesday.…

Using AI to attack AI

updated  Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE

Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused a month earlier.…

Vertical integration meets subscriptions

"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."…

The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts

A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.…