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Asia In Brief  Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users of its Microsoft 365 bundle.…

Resident doctors across England, including those at Colchester Hospital, will walk out for five consecutive days next month.

Missed appointments have cost Essex NHS trusts more than £130million in five years.

Resident doctors across England, including those at Colchester Hospital, will walk out for five consecutive days next month.

Security staff have been dismissed after a walkout at Wethersfield Asylum Centre, a union has said.

Its been quite a few years since students last filled the corridors

Back in early September, the prognosticators at IDC put out an ebullient but simple AI spending forecast going out to 2029, and Gartner followed suit with a much more detailed AI spending forecast, which we augmented and expanded with the help of the market researcher a few weeks later. …

Gartner Radically Raises Datacenter Spending Forecasts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents, according to a report from BleepingComputer. This attack vector is particularly concerning because it requires no user interaction beyond selecting a file to preview and removes the need to trick a target into actually opening or executing it on their system. For most users, no action is required since the protection is enabled automatically with the October 2025 security update, and existing workflows remain unaffected unless you regularly preview downloaded files. "This change is designed to enhance security by preventing a vulnerability that could leak NTLM hashes when users preview potentially unsafe files," Microsoft says in a support document published Wednesday. It is important to note that this may not take effect immediately and could require signing out and signing back in.

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Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups

The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the pen, critics continue to point out the convention’s flaws.…

Tucked away in a quiet laneway in the heart of Darlinghurst, behind the brick shell of an old warehouse, sits one of Sydney's most striking inner-city residences. 

The family of a teenager who was allegedly doused in petrol and set alight after a feud have revealed the gruesome extent of his injuries. 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin shared Sunday that his 'visa was revoked and he is in ICE custody pending removal.'

Mike Wood (left), 66, admitted he caused 'a lot of mayhem' when Aimee-Lou (right) and her sister Emily were young and said his drinking and cocaine binges nearly killed him several times.

Kevin Federline says he finally realised his marriage to Britney Spears was irreparable the night she begged him to come and join the party - as their two young children cried in the background.

Having explored just about every other conceivable tax rise the Chancellor seems to have settled once again on the idea of breaking Labour's manifesto promise and raising rates of income tax.

Seen from Labour's backbenches, a mansion tax must seem an easy way of soaking the rich while sparing the ordinary working people. No wonder the snatch-and-grab brigade are salivating.

There was some surprise at Prime Minister's Questions when Sir Keir Starmer said he backed a parliamentary investigation into Prince Andrew's tenancy at Royal Lodge.

Karen McGonigal, 53, from Salford in Greater Manchester, was illegally administered the unlicensed drug in May.

City grandee and philanthropist Ken Costa cautioned that 'just about anyone with aspirations is being made to feel unwelcome in Rachel Reeves' Britain'. Pictured: The Chancellor

Cardiff Bay's eagerly-anticipated Halloween Festival opened on Saturday and is being held over half-term week.