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While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for this one tiny backdoor

 

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Microsoft says it's doing its best to crack down on crims

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Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams

Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people

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While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for this one tiny backdoor

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‘Technical glitch’ in payroll software sparks riots in Papua New Guinea

PLUS: Microsoft taps 700 million new customers in China; AI comes to Korean DMZ; India’s semiconductor sector surges

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GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered

Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations

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Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content

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Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed

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