Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't' [Mon Jan 13 2025]

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Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'

Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat

 
 

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Microsoft testing 45 percent M365 price hikes in Asia to make sure you can enjoy AI

Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger

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Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping

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Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'

Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat

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TSMC revenue booms and you don’t need AI to figure out why

PLUS: China plans unified APIs; Singapore lets Police run scam victims’ bank accounts; Fujitsu now too cool for aircon

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That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise

El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show

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Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

Meanwhile, tech titans are falling over themselves to help Trump

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Tongue-zapping spoons, tea-cooling catbots, lazy vacuums and more from CES

All the consumer electronics weirdness you didn't want to see in person anyway

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Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Old deadline of January 2025 being used to push victims into paying up

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Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung

Lenovo’s already showing them off in a bonkers laptop

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Chinese cyber-spies peek over shoulder of officials probing real-estate deals near American military bases

Gee, wonder why Beijing is so keen on the – checks notes – Committee on Foreign Investment in the US

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Drug addiction treatment service admits attackers stole sensitive patient data

Details of afflictions and care plastered online

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Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh?

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New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update

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Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL

On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code

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Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error

Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds?

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Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them

World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role

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Celebrating when EVs went to the Moon with a Lego Lunar Roving Vehicle build

Even better use for the Technic range than the Mars Rover – with one big caveat

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Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12

Now set for the day before SpaceX's next Starship test

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BOFH: Forecasting and the fine art of desktop upgrades

New year, new PC

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Two accused of COVID-19 vaccine fraud under Computer Misuse Act

Investigation says scheme allegedly raked in £145k and sold nearly 2,000 fake records to the unvaccinated

Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content

Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?

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Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?

Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach

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