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Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out

3 months 1 week ago
Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men

Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) have left the org “more vulnerable to hacking” according to federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York City.…

Simon Sharwood

Microsoft To Adjust Office-Teams Pricing in Bid To Avoid EU Antitrust Fine

3 months 1 week ago
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its software sold without the app in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine, according to three sources. The move by the U.S. tech giant comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office. In 2023, German rival alfaview filed a similar grievance to the EU watchdog. Teams, which was added to Office 365 in 2017 for free and eventually replaced Skype for Business, became popular during the pandemic due in part to its video conferencing.

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Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today

3 months 1 week ago
'Intense year' ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump's bad books

Meta has confirmed to The Register that today marks the start of a mass redundancy process with thousands of workers getting the chop.…

Paul Kunert