Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
- Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 usersby Brandon Vigliarolo on April 16, 2025 at 9:16 pm
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…
- Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phoneby Iain Thomson on April 16, 2025 at 8:58 pm
Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter? CIA Director John Ratcliffe's smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a group Signal conversation a journalist was inadvertently added to.…
- Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimesby Richard Speed on April 16, 2025 at 8:08 pm
Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder Far be it from us to suggest Microsoft is trying to force people onto its New Outlook application, but it has admitted Classic Outlook occasionally and mysteriously turns into a system resource hog.…
- First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip salesby Tobias Mann on April 16, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible? World War Fee Turns out Nvidia's not the only chip shop caught in the crossfire of Trump's tit-for-tat trade battle with China.…
- Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockadesby Richard Speed on April 16, 2025 at 5:50 pm
Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions Microsoft has admitted some users are being offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies configured otherwise.…
- Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyoutby Brandon Vigliarolo on April 16, 2025 at 5:32 pm
Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession It's been a little over a year since Adobe abandoned its plans to purchase web-based design tool Figma. Now, the smaller of the two app makers is bucking market uncertainty by filing for an IPO.…
- CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new homeby Jessica Lyons on April 16, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Uncertainty is the new certainty In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.…
- 20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbitby Richard Speed on April 16, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide It is twenty years since NASA's DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.…
- Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fineby Paul Kunert on April 16, 2025 at 2:45 pm
DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems.…
- AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowedby Paul Kunert on April 16, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent.…
- ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls marketsby Dan Robinson on April 16, 2025 at 1:15 pm
Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump's tariff turmoil casts uncertainty over the entire industry.…
- Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting inviteby Iain Thomson on April 16, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…
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