Authorities in Lahore, Pakistan, have arrested and questioned a web developer, named as Farhan Asif, on suspicion of cyber terrorism in relation to misinformation posted in the wake of the 29 July mass stabbing at a children’s Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in Southport, Merseyside, in which three were murdered. The attack on a community dance…
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It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – world of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication. For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a…
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While you weren’t paying attention, X (formerly Twitter) quietly began feeding all of your posts, replies, and more to Grok, its generative AI chatbot. The new setting appears to be enabled by default on everyone’s account, so even if you never actively chose to let Grok vacuum up your data, it’s doing so without your…
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David William Plummer, a former Microsoft software engineer who developed Windows Task Manager, has posted a video describing how the CrowdStrike update could have caused Windows to halt. He described CrowdStrike Falcon as anti-malware for Windows servers, which “proactively detects new attacks” and analyses application behaviour. To do this, CrowdStrike needs to run as a…
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President Biden is still running for re-election, President Trump hasn’t been shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.Those are some of the wacky misstatements that ChatGPT shared with me yesterday and today, prompted by my questions to it about the dizzying array of major news developments we’ve been…
Systems using Microsoft Windows software were affected by a major global outage due to a configuration which caused PCs to crash with a “blue screen of death”. The BBC reported that Sky News and a number of airlines including KLM were affected by the outage. Some services are now back online, but others are still…
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Free Microsoft Office licences negotiated by the Scottish government for school pupils are set to end at the start of August, according to the Scottish Herald. The newspaper reported that the free A1 Plus licence will no longer be available to students. Glow, Scotland’s digital environment to support learning, has posted a notice stating that Microsoft…
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There are some big updates coming to iPhone in iOS 18, from Apple Intelligence to a revamped Photos apps to a redesigned Control Center. But there are some smaller visual updates that are sure to intrigue iPhone owners as well, such as the all-new “Dynamic” wallpaper, which debuted alongside iOS 18 developer beta 3 on…
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A year ago, Meta debuted Threads, its response to Elon Musk acquiring and quickly destroying Twitter. As users wanted somewhere new to migrate, mostly because they disagreed with Elon Musk’s decisions for the platform, Mark Zuckerberg took the lead in announcing this new social network that would use Instagram’s user base but focus on writing…
Threads turns 1 with 175M active users, so why does it still feel empty? Read More »
Gaby Portnoy, director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), has called for countries to work together in a “joint front” to combat Iranian state-linked hacking. He said hackers linked to Iran are targeting Saudi Arabia, Oman, Canada, the UAE, the UK, Germany and Austria among others, including countries that regard Iran as an…
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